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November 15, 2004
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
AND OMNI
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Chairman Johnny L. Winton Date: November 5, 2004 File: 04-01264
and Members of the CRA Board
Subject: Discussion Item / New Billboard
At Jackson Soul Food Restaurant
Parking Lot
From: Frank K. Rollason References:
Executive Director
Enclosures: Supporting Documentation
Please be advised that J.E.J. Properties, Inc,, to whom the Southeast Overtown/Park West
Community Redevelopment Agency (SEOPW CRA) sold Parking Lot No. 5 located at 936 NW 3rd
Avenue for restaurant parking, has recently entered into an agreement with Clear Channel to
erect a billboard on the parking lot property. This, we believe, is in violation of the deed restriction
which allows that the lot shall be used solely for parking for a period of ten (10) years from the
date of the sale — June '03 (copy attached). Ms. Shiriene Ingraham, President of J.E.J.
Properties, Inc., was notified, in writing, on October 26, 2004, by CRA Special Counsel of the
apparent violation of the deed restriction and instructed to have the billboard removed (copy
attached).
At this point, the billboard remains and significantly contributes to the blighted conditions of the
CRAIOvertown Area. In that it is the mission of the CRA to remove slum and blight, this issue is
being brought before the Board for discussion and whether authorization should be granted by the
Board for General Counsel to go forward with whatever legal action may be necessary to have the
billboard removed.
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