U.S. Recycling

Asked the commission to create an ordinance allowing code enforcement to fine industrial operators running without required permits, citing U.S. Recycling's operation without a permit since February 26.

Asked the city to pursue eminent domain on the U.S. Recycling property for affordable housing, funded by selling the First Street property, citing ongoing pollution.

Broadway Promenade resident thanked commissioners for listening and flagged state legislature threats to local government funding.

CCNA and Gillespie Park president detailed county fines, FDOT truck violations, code citations and the Waterkeeper lawsuit, and urged a nuisance suit.

Amaryllis Park Neighborhood Association president urged legal action to declare U.S. Recycling a public nuisance.

Downtown Condo Association president noted 220 new units within ground zero of the dust plume plus 900 more nearby.

Central Cocoanut Neighborhood Association president said residents are sick of waiting and asked the commission to prove skeptics wrong and fund the lawsuit.

CCNA second vice president brought a bag of concrete dust and urged the commission to resume the legal action it abandoned in 2022.

Asked for immediate shutdown-on-violation enforcement or a lawsuit so the issue is resolved by 2030.

Former Central Cocoanut president supported the nuisance suit, suggested eminent domain, and proposed barring city contractors who work with U.S. Recycling.

Business owner near the site said the time for action is long past.

Speaking for her son, a Central Cocoanut homeowner, argued multiple lawsuits would force U.S. Recycling to comply, sell, or shut down.

Said the time for caution is over and the city should do whatever it takes, whatever it costs.

17th Street resident traced her complaints back to 2016 and described noise and health impacts.

Artist and Suncoast Waterkeeper member urged the commission not to turn its back on the toxic blight.

37-year resident urged direction to the city attorney for a public and health nuisance lawsuit.

Business broker described a veterinary client deal that collapsed because of the nuisance next door.