Historic City News readers are asking why the city attorney for the City of St Augustine is instigating an unlawful attempt to keep the public out of a space that has been a public venue for more than 400 years?
Loring Park has never been held by private owners; it is, and has always been, a public space with public paths, a public fountain, and public monuments, all of which are owned by the State of Florida and overseen by the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (the governor and his cabinet members).
Under a lease to the University of Florida to manage the property for certain public purposes, City Attorney Isabelle Lopez is advocating a legal theory that would be applied selectively to those people that the University did not want to be in the public park.
© 2016 Historic City News contributed video by Adam McAlmont
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