Key West voters reject dredging of its main shipping channel, but apparently the issue is not dead. Check out the story from the Miami Herald.
A ballot question to order a study on whether Key West should
expand its main shipping channel to accommodate modern, larger cruise
ships was soundly defeated by voters Tuesday night.
The issue had
been controversial and pitted residents who took sides on whether the
work would affect the city's economy and environment.
At stake was
a $3 million study that would have been performed by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers — if the Corps agreed to do it — analyzing broad
economic and environmental impacts of the proposed dredging.
The vote was 4,531 (73.54 percent) saying no to requesting the
study as opposed to 1,630 (26.46 percent) who voted to ask the Corps for
the study.
Proponents of the study, primarily the Key West
Chamber of Commerce and its affiliated political action committee, had
couched a study as just that, a factual analysis, not a decision on
whether to actually commence with the projected $35 million dredging.
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