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Bowden: Let us remove the visual clutter downtown
Let’s be blunt, looking about, seeing bayside Paradise.
Rename the misnamed and still-controversial park; we failed the promise to citizens who voted that we were buying things maritime in the interest of creating bayfront space that would reflect our heritage and encourage nearby reinvestment.
More, pass up the idea of placing digital billboards winking messages unceasingly at the east and west entrances, even if the park board may be lured by the upfront $200,000 payment for a 25-year lease. Make this commitment as part of a new firm downtown Pensacola policy of eradicating visual clutter that distracts drivers, including scaly power poles leaning in the wind, power lines looping across the sky and stacks of electronic, metal containers that edge into public places.
Take a look: The silvery boxes ungoverned by city policy jut up as if foreign intruders like “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” And 700 cities across Florida and the nation, including Jacksonville, and Mobile, striving for a tourism economy, prohibit new billboards.
More, determine not to clutter around the Blue Wahoos’ home ground simply because we’re desperate to unburden citizens of the long-term expenditure that began as the Adm. Jack Fetterman Florida State Maritime Museum at the Vince Whibbs Community Maritime Park. A Blue Wahoos advertisement says they play at the Pensacola Bayfront Park. And is that the park where a corporate headquarters will limit the view from Main Street?
Let’s be blunt, looking about, seeing bayside Paradise.
Rename the misnamed and still-controversial park; we failed the promise to citizens who voted that we were buying things maritime in the interest of creating bayfront space that would reflect our heritage and encourage nearby reinvestment.
More, pass up the idea of placing digital billboards winking messages unceasingly at the east and west entrances, even if the park board may be lured by the upfront $200,000 payment for a 25-year lease. Make this commitment as part of a new firm downtown Pensacola policy of eradicating visual clutter that distracts drivers, including scaly power poles leaning in the wind, power lines looping across the sky and stacks of electronic, metal containers that edge into public places.
Take a look: The silvery boxes ungoverned by city policy jut up as if foreign intruders like “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” And 700 cities across Florida and the nation, including Jacksonville, and Mobile, striving for a tourism economy, prohibit new billboards.
More, determine not to clutter around the Blue Wahoos’ home ground simply because we’re desperate to unburden citizens of the long-term expenditure that began as the Adm. Jack Fetterman Florida State Maritime Museum at the Vince Whibbs Community Maritime Park. A Blue Wahoos advertisement says they play at the Pensacola Bayfront Park. And is that the park where a corporate headquarters will limit the view from Main Street?
