Inside the Moon Caliente! A2 Moon Baby A4 Stuff I Heard A5 Traveling Moon A9 Live Music A18 Issue 814 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 21, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Packery Channel Monitoring Program: La Posada Around Status: Channel Shoaling and Dredge/BUDM-Nourishment Planning Packery Channel(July 201Survey9) Events Kick-off The Island Beach Widens No Renourishment Needed By Dale Rankin November 29 Editor’s note: Consultants for the Elmer Fudd would have been a East Pass Shoal The 2019 version of the La Posada City of Corpus Christi recently (Apr 2018) Dedicated Placement Area Legend Non-Beach Quality Lighted Boat Parades season will lonely duck hunter this week as local ( ) provided this analysis of the damage Dredge Material Persistent Shoal kick off on Friday, November 29, at guides say the duck population this to Packery Channel and the jetties. Transient Shoal (TBD) year has been less than great. The Scour (< Shoaling) Waves Resort with Todd Dorn and the The need for dredging the channel to Limited Change Sea Drifters at 6 p.m. with a string of usual cacophony of shotguns along widen the beach along the Michael J. Newport the west side of Padre Island has Mollie Beattie Pass events to follow, leading up to the Ellis Seawall seems to have subsided Coastal Habitat been largely silent this year and we Community Mustang Friday and Saturday night parades on as the beach widened due to natural Island December 6 and 7. have fielded not a single complaint conditions. The pedestrian-only from homeowners here at the Word section of the beach will be extended For a full schedule of events see Factory. page A15 in this issue. northward as described. Boat Ramp Shoal Former Islander and current orbiter The shoreline position survey south Basin Shoal Entrance of the Earth Andrew Morgan will Shoal of Packery was completed during a SW Shoal Kathy and take a walk in space on Friday, window of opportunity of lower water November 22. He will be outside the ( ) South Shoal levels. An assessment briefing was (Lake Padre Butter Are International Space Station for a six provided for the specific application Entrance) North Padre and one-half hour spacewalk to repair Island to the TGLO bollard relocation Lake the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. Retiring process. The beach fronting the Padre Andrew lived on Padre Island while central segment of the North Padre he was getting his wings at the Naval Island (NPI) Seawall demonstrated Air Station and was a regular at the significant recovery between July and Wednesday night tennis games at the Oct 2019 and the immediate concerns Waves courts where they have been Aerial: Apr 2018 Aerial United Geotech related to the beach fronting the holding down Wednesday nights for Windward parking lot were alleviated almost twenty years. You can watch Persistent AreasPersistent of Shoaling Areas in Deposition of Shoaling Basin and in increase Deposition in shoaling Basin in Entrance and increase Channel (July in 2019) as of Oct 2019. The accretion that shoaling in Entrance Channel (July 2019) Andrew live on the NASA website. occurred along the NPI Seawall was Water Exchange Bridge related to sediment transport over Prepared for the calm summer months in absence Channel Shoaling and Potential for The Corpus Christi City Council this of significant tropical activity in the The City of Corpus Christi week approved $2.8 million from the Gulf. Depth-Limited Navigation Island Tax Increment Refinancing Project No. 18140A When Islander Kathy King turned The gift of accretion provides the During July 2019, peak shoal the shoal fronting the Lake Padre twenty- one her father bought her a Zone as the last piece of the funding 01 Sept 2019 (Revised 06 Nov 2019) puzzle for the $13.9 million Park City time to work through the process elevations were limited to the entrance (South Shoal) were liquor store in Oklahoma making her the youngest woman to ever own a Road 22 Water Exchange Bridge that would be needed for the next Deposition Basin, at the intersectionDeidre D. Williamsmaintained with limited change project. A second required reading time this area is subject to a persistent with the Inner EntranceCoastal Channel,Resea rchbetween Scientist Dec 2018 and July 2019. liquor store in the state. Now, fifty- is expected for December 10 after period (almost two years) of erosion and in the ConradEntrance Blucher Channel Institute forPeak Surveying elevations and Science related to these one years later she may be the oldest which the council is expected to and shoreline recession that impacts between the channelTexas A&Mcenterline University shoals-Corpus ranged Christi from -1.5 to -4 feet proprietor to own one in Texas. But as approve a contract with Haas- pedestrian safety. The draft briefing and the south jetty. [email protected] extent during July 2019. In contrast the of December 10 she is calling it quits. Anderson Construction to begin work is attached here for your information. and elevation of the shoals within shoal protruding into the channel She has owned and operated on the bridge. Typically this info is provided as a the Deposition Basin including Whitecap Wine & Ale near the corner the linear Boat Ramp Shoal and Shoaling cont. on A4 In a related item the council on Channel cont. on A4 of Whitecap and SPID for thirteen Tuesday in Executive Session years but it’s time to retire. discussed the $111 million Chapter “This has been a great business,” she 380 Economic Development said, “but it’s time to do something Incentive Agreement between the city City Approves Plan for Townhome else.” and owners of Waves Waterpark and the land west of the bridge site where She and her dog Butter are going a planned canal called the Village Development on Lake Padre to do some traveling. The fate of the building, which Kathy rents, is Canal would connect it to the existing By Dale Rankin Island canal system. The agenda item unknown at the present. also said the council would discuss The Corpus Christi City Council on Tuesday approved a zoning Kathy and Butter will be missed but a Developer Agreement that is a change for a planned waterfront townhome development on Lake you still have a couple of weeks to part of the bridge project. No vote Padre. stop by and say hello. was taken by the council after the The developer, SuperElite, LLC. requested the zoning at the Executive Session. A representative site at 14836 Granada Drive to be changed to a Planned Unit from the Axys group told the council Development which the council approved on the recommendation Corpus Christi Tuesday that there is $2 billion worth of the City Planning Commission. The zoning had previously of new construction awaiting the final been approved in 2017 but the developer told the city that he Economy approval of the bridge project which needed approval to go from forty-five feet up to sixty feet in is expected by year’s end. case new FEMA flood maps require the structure to be raised. A second request was also approved to allow for short-term rentals. City Council gets an Speaking of bridges… Zoning in the area allows for both but council approval was City Manager Peter Zanoni this required before work can begin. update Ian Vasey, President and CEO week told the Corpus Christi City The site is west of a current townhome development on the Council that the work on the new of the Corpus Christi Economic north side of Granada Street. City records describe the planned Development Corporation gave Harbor Bridge is continuing even as property as: officials from the Texas Department the Corpus Christi City Council an of Transformation have inspected “2.35 acres in size. The applicant is proposing a gated community update on the local economy this the work on the bridge so far and that will consist of twenty-seven (27) attached single-family units week, here are some of the highlights. “everything is that has been built is safe.” The Texas Department of Townhome cont. on A4 Economy cont. on A4 Transportation announced last week that design work on the bridge has been halted and Zanoni said the A little Island history National Transportation Safety Board is inspecting the project and will issue a report within thirty days. Mrs. Cogsdale’s Coins The $2 billion bridge is currently an By Bobbie Kimbrell yards by 200 yards. to start with. The general store sold Bridge. He was reprimanded but estimated two years behind schedule Editor’s note: Bobbie Kimbrell Some commercial fishermena little bit of everything, canned and not reduced in rank due to the need with completion now expected in was a commercial fisherman in rented the tourists courts and a lot boxed goods, bread and candy, cattle for pilots. 2025. Flour Bluff from the early forties of poker games were held there feed and beer. There was a big table It was known that Mrs. Cogsdale POA candidates until his retirement in the 1990s. when the weather was too bad to go for beer drinkers to sit at and dead bought a cedar box that was nailed He still lives in Flour Bluff. fishing. Some fishermen also lived bait shrimp was sold for fishing. For together with copper nails and The application period for in the houses. Previous to when the some reason it was known that Mrs. In 1944 Mrs. Cogsdale operated copper hardware, copper hasp and candidates on the Padre Isles Property causeway was built in about 1936 the Cogsdale collected coins, probably the general store at the entrance to lock and key.