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FROM A READER

Published: May 16, 2009

Editor:

Last week the City Commission limited the Tarpon Turtle restaurant to only 177 seats, which apparently it was legally required to do based on city parking regulations.

But it raises a serious question as to Tarpon Springs' attitude toward attracting business. The decision likely will cost some 20 people their jobs. But the city has the ability to rectify that by doing what more progressive cities like St. Petersburg have done: Amend its parking regulations to allow boat slips to count as parking spaces, and thus increase the lakefront Turtle's seating capacity and restore the jobs.

City commissioners have two choices:

Tell the whole world they are 1) backward, 2) more concerned with the desires of a few special interests than with attracting business and jobs, and 3) wish to remain backward.

Change the parking regulations and tell the world they are run a progressive city and want new business and jobs to come here.

Don Adams
Tarpon Springs

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