Category: Government

First elected St. Johns County Property Appraiser in 1996, Sharon Outland has announced her bid for re-election next year to Historic City News — the first of five constitutional officers who might face a challenger in the Primary Election on August 28, 2012 or might face a challenger in the General Election on November 6,…

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Historic City News was in attendance at the March 15, 2011 meeting, when St. Johns County Commissioner Mark Miner put the county attorney to task identifying county ordinances that once regulated and permitted the registration and carrying of firearms; ordinances, the privilege given and enforcement of which, have been illegal since the late 1980’s.

Historic City News receives regular reports from Commissioner Bliss as to the activities undertaken during the regular meeting of the St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District.

Historic City News can report that, although its not final yet, the leaning of commissioners expressing their opinions seems to favor a lessening of restrictions to homeowners and a tightening of restrictions on nuisance sources of noise in St. Johns County.

Work has begun; marking the end of five years of planning and the beginning of two years of rehabilitation to Lincolnville’s Riberia Street — and Historic City News will be following the progress of the project.

In October, when Historic City News reported that the St. Augustine City Commission approved the transfer of the former Mary Peck lot in the Colonial Spanish Quarter to the National Park Service, few thought the Park Service would say “no” … but they did.

Captain Jay Bliss reminds local Historic City News readers that tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18th, the regular meeting of the St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District will convene at 3:00 p.m. in the meeting room of the St. Augustine Beach City Commission.