Port Aransas

Inside the Moon Land Parade A2 Business Briefs A3 Beach Santa A11 Keller Williams Toys for Tots A16 Three Chords & Truth A18 Issue 869 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Ronnie Narmour Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 December 10, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Flying Turtles Arrive in Texas! Short-Term Island Rentals in By Dale Rankin Cold stunned visitors follow Winter Texans to Padre Island This is the weekend for the La Posada Lighted Boat Parade and if the Weather Wonks get it right it The Island to warm up Neighborhoods looks like the weather will be great. Temperatures in the 60s and just a Violation of enough wind to remind us we live on The Island. The best viewing Friday night will be along the Intracoastal at City Code Snoopy’s, Doc’s, and Marker 37. Get there early unless you want to walk a City Attorney says ways because parking is likely to be a problem. We include the schedule of nothing preventing events in this issue. city from enforcing Flowbee Rick Last week we told you about George rules now Clooney saying during a CBS By Dale Rankin interview that he uses a Flowbee Short-Term Rentals are in residential to cut his hair. But then our friend neighborhoods zoned RS-6 on Padre Rick, who invented the Flowbee, got Island are a violation of the city code another testimonial when Clooney and can be shut down under current went on Jimmy Kimmel’s show city ordinances, Corpus Christi City Wednesday night and both men cut Attorney Miles Risley said Tuesday. their hair with a Flowbee! What a deal! Flowbee Rick vacated The In response to a question from Island a few years back due to the By Dale Rankin rehabilitated and eventually released of the Atlantic Ocean to the relatively District 4 Councilman Greg Smith into the warmer waters of the Gulf of balmy climes of the Coastal Bend during Tuesday’s council meeting blasts from duck hunters but he Who ever said that turtles can’t fly Mexico. to warm up before being released in Risley said that any rental of less than and Bunny lived here for a decade. never met the 20 Kemps ridley turtles the Gulf of Mexico where the water thirty days in residential areas zoned We got this letter from reader Tom that flew from the chilly waters “We expect to have them about temperature is around 70 degrees. RS-6 is a violation of existing city Cullinan. around the New England Aquarium two months,” said Dr. Tim Triston, The flight took eight hours from code and the city’s ability to enforce to Padre Island this week. Director of the Texas Sealife Center. As you surely read in last week's Cape Cod where more than 500 cold- the zoning has not been effected by “About 70 percent of them have Island Moon, George Clooney The cold stunned turtkes didn’t stunned turtles have washed up so lawsuits stemming from Short-Term pneumonia, so we get them over that revealed that his hair is cut with a sprout wings they were loaded onto far overloading the rehabilitation Rental rules enacted across the state. and when they are healthy enough to Flowbee, the device I have used to a SAAB 340B turboprop aircraft, facilities in New England prompting trim my hair since 1987. That was swim we will release them.” “There is nothing prohibiting the each tucked into banana boxes with the flight to Texas. city from enforcing the rules against also the last year I visited a barber, towels, into the plane and found For the flights, the turtles remained saving me at least $20,000. But then Sea turtles are cold-blooded and rely their way to the Texas Sealife Center at temperatures of 70-75 degrees. Short-term cont. on A4 I read that Clooney was on a late- on Padre Island where they will be They were escaping the chilly water night show saying he bought it for his Turtles cont. on A4 assistant to do his hair. "I don't do it Letter From myself ... my Gosh, that's cheap!" Two New Recreational Vehicle La Posada So there you go. The next time Rick PIPOA visits The Island he’s buying dinner. Parks Planned Along State Schedule Regarding Thefts • Friday December 11- La Highway 361 Posada Lighted Boat Parade A check of Island police reports North Canals. 7:00 p.m. start Short-Term over the past couple of weeks shows City Council considering permitting time. Please bring & Donate we have an influx of sneak thieves a new toy for “Toys for Tots." Rentals stealing from parked cars. In one case By Dale Rankin U. S. Marines on site. Editor’s note: Letter from PIPOA a brazen thief stole a hunting bow out Two new developments along the President Marvin Jones to member of of a truck parked right outside CVS • Saturday December 12- La State Highway 361 corridor north the Island Strategic Action Committee in the middle of the day. They’re out Posada Lighted Boat Parade of Packery Channel are making their prior to this week’s meeting. there folks so be careful. South Canals. 6:00 p.m. start way through the zoning process at the time. See the route maps on December 3, 2020 City of Corpus Christi. New Construction page A12. Please bring and City of Corpus Christi Both are encountering pushback donate a new toy for “Toys for PIPOA President Marvin Jones Island Strategic Action Committee reports in his column this week that from residents and city officials Tots." A proposal to develop a nearly 100 new homes will have been who are opposed to new recreational Toy drop off and pickup Dear Gentlemen, vehicle parks in that area. project including a hotel and constructed in the PIPOA in 2020 Thank you for the opportunity recreational vehicles sites at • Friday Night- Jackfish Boat and approximately 66 pools have The first application was tabled by to provide the ISAC with this location was tabled by the Launch. been built. We’ve been discovered. the city council on Tuesday after recommendations regarding short- Corpus Christi City Council on Water rationing the developer failed to provide a • Saturday Night- Padre Island term rentals within the Padre Isles blueprint showing exactly what Tuesday. Yacht Club gate, POA Boat Property Owners Association If you’re the owner of one of those would be developed at the 17-acre Documents presented to the council Launch. (PIPOA). As stated in my email dated new pools, or an old one for that site which is located at 7213 SH 362 on Tuesday would change the zoning October 5, 2020, the PIPOA Board matter, fill them up now because it • For toy pickup call: Sandy about halfway between Padre Island Graves @ 254.640.9348. of Directors created a committee looks like we’re headed for water and Port Aransas. RV cont. on A5 to study the short-term rental issue. rationing in the next couple of weeks The study included a survey of its unless we get rain. In a briefing to the members with recommendations for city council this week city staffers A little Island history areas involving short-term rentals reported that the lake capacity of our with rules, and regulations pertaining water system is at 40.7 percent and A Look at Padre Island in December 1876 to short-term rentals. Below find, the when we reach 40 percent Phase 1 results of the committee's study. water rationing kicks in. That means A land of wolves, coyotes, panthers, sand, rattlesnakes, and watering yards only once per week men who would kill you for your saddle and clothes SURVEY which isn’t a big deal but without The PIPOA sent a survey of five rain through the spring it looks to be questions to its membership; see Editor’s Note: The following was Washington written a dry few months Around The Island. Exhibit A attached. The survey taken from a study of Padre Island from his camp at results indicate that over 80% of Packery debris done by the National Park Service the north end of those responding strongly agree or prior to the founding of Padre the island, Halter agree that short-term rentals should Island National Seashore. remarked that his nearest neighbors not be allowed in single-family At the beginning of 1876, R. were a family living residential areas. 73% either strongly E. Halter from the United States twenty miles down agree or agree that short-term rentals Coast and Geodetic Survey arrived the island and an should be regulated by the City of in Corpus Christi for the purpose old hermit "living Corpus Christi laws and regulations. of surveying the coast from Brazos in a hovel without 79% either strongly agree or agree Island to Aransas Pass. Between even a dog." From that the City of Corpus Christi should 1876 and 1882 he and a crew of a camp sixty miles strictly enforce short-term laws and about four to six men spent several down the island he regulations. 77% either strongly months every year moving up and commented again on is no one living within forty miles agree or agree that short-term rentals We’ve had several calls this week down The Island setting markers conditions on Padre. He had found of me that I know of. Even the sea will reduce property values in the about illegal dumping near the and making observations.

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