Planning Commission to Convene “Linking Land Use and Water Supply: An Interactive Forum”

The Planning Commission, the Local Planning Agency in Hillsborough County, will convene a Forum to address growth and water supply issues on March 11, 2010 at Stetson’s Tampa Law Center. This Forum will allow local and regional agencies, and the public, to examine the current comprehensive framework that links land use decisions with water supply planning. The public will be encouraged to participate, in an effort to define and ensure the most effective land use and water supply planning in the Tampa Bay Area.

This will be an important opportunity not only to analyze the current state of such planning efforts, but to also educate government and the public regarding future land use plans, water supply needs projections, water restrictions, water use permits, etc. Registration information is available at: http://www.theplanningcommission.org/waterforumflyer

Find Stolen Boats

NOTE: if you live on the river, and own a boat, please guard it well, lock it with chain and padlock. Unfortunately, nothing is safe anymore.

1. Friday night, November 20, we believe, someone stole one of Gordon's hand-built boats. It was the first boat he built and he made it with his son Randy more than 20 years ago.

It is a narrow, dark green, 16 ft sail/row boat with bright red gunwales and cane seats. None of the rigging was on the boat or the oars. It was taken from our boat port by the river. It has great sentimental value and we were almost done refinishing it to give it to Randy.

If you see it, please call me or Gordon. My cell phone number is 334-8691 and Gordon's is 505- 1208. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Denise Myhre

2. Last August, somebody stole John Ovink's yellow canoe from the boatramp right out of his back yard. About two weeks later he saw two youths paddling what he believes was his canoe with their hands, and they had the nerve to ask him if he had any paddles for sale. Couldn't prove it was his (there may be more than one yellow canoe in the world), and they were in the water, he was sitting on his dock. It's a 16 foot, fiberglass canoe, painted yellow, white interior. Nothing fancy. No sentimental value, just a shame that it's no longer available for river enjoyment.

If you see it, email us here and you'll make a river rat very happy for Christmas.