Robert "Rob" Walker
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Voice
- Meetings spoken in
- 30
- Total speaking time
- 4:32:25
- Avg per meeting
- 9:05
- Segments
- 3642
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Top issues during term (15)(Development)
Main Street Exchange and Douglas Avenue Parking Garage Construction
The city gains a $341,313 total marina contract item and a major downtown project expected to boost property values; the developer must bond or secure public infrastructure.
CRA Master Plan update and downtown capital projects
Forward Pinellas is providing services without a fee on what would otherwise be a sizable-cost project.
Sunrise Townhomes redevelopment
The completed project is expected to add about $11,500 a year in city property tax revenue, plus a $26,486 parkland impact fee.
Downtown parking at Edgewater Drive lot
About $8,000 for property taxes plus ~$1,200 in insurance and fees, budgeted in the FY 2027 CRA Trust Fund.
Alternate member vacancy on the LPA
Live Local preemption on four-acre site near bowling alley
Off-site signalization and intersection improvements would be required if the project advances.
Business Survey Action Plan and small-town character
Future action items may be funded as CIP or BPI projects during the budget process.
Easement Vacation at 1768 Santa Barbara Drive
No direct city cost; affects only the described easement area.
Sale and rezoning of the Jones Building site
Sale proceeds and new property tax revenue for the city; the city also waives its own $2,000 application fee.
Egret on Union affordable housing project
$75,000 from the Economic Development Housing Fund (General Fund), payable only if the state awards the tax credits.
Azul Ave Vacation Homes at 1380 Pinehurst Rd
Traffic studies show about 280 fewer daily peak trips than the former charter school.
Filling Board of Adjustment and Appeal vacancies
No direct cost — these are volunteer board positions.
Downtown parking garage and county interlocal amendment
About $6.8 million in new CRA debt to build the garage, on top of $2.48 million left on the existing agreement.
265 Causeway Blvd mixed-use development
The developer pays a $2,000 design review application fee plus multimodal impact fees; no city cost.
Flats on Main Affordable Housing Loan Restructuring
$610,000 city contribution leverages roughly $40 million in outside funding.
Decisions during term (4)
Recorded while Walker was in office — not necessarily decisions they moved, spoke to, or voted on.
Community Redevelopment Agency Annual Independent Audit
Fiscal Year 2025 Community Redevelopment Annual Report
Ordinance 25-11 — Sustainable Development Scorecard
First Reading of Ordinance 25-11 — Sustainability Matrix and Sustainable Development Scorecard
Voting record (3)(Development)
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approve First Amendment to the lnterlocal Agreement between the City of Dunedin and Pinellas County for the commitment of tax increment revenues to the City of Dunedin Community Redevelopment District
Ordinance 25-11 — Sustainable Development Scorecard
First Reading of Ordinance 25-11 — Sustainability Matrix and Sustainable Development Scorecard
Called it an easy decision because it is the right thing to do.