Leash Law Gains as PAWS Targets City Strays
PAWS plans to enforce a leash or voice control rule for dogs off owners properties. Officers aim to curb stray dogs in Destin and also control roaming cats near docks and restaurants. Vaccination and licensing urged. unlicensed or previously loose dogs face fines and impoundment. Inquiries note hot spots Indian Trail Bayou Drive Legion Drive Mountain Drive. City committees stalled on a generic animal control ordinance, with council preferring dog specific rules.
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Zoller
PAWS
Destin
Humane Society
Indian Trail
Bayou Drive
Legion Drive
Mountain Drive
Danny Woodward
Old 98 dispute rages over park road closure
The old highway 98 remains under state DOT control while plans push to transfer it to the county and then the DNR for park development. City options include appealing the judge's dismissal or seeking injunction or later administrative review. Some officials favor closing the road for the park, others oppose. The Beach Merchants Association vows to pursue court action to keep Old 98 open while awaiting a date for an administrative hearing.
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Old 98
State Department of Transportation
David Fierro
DNR
Destin
Joseph Lorenz
Thomas
First District Court of Appeals
Okaloosa County
Jimmy Vaughn
Vaughn
Beach Merchants Association
Larry Stuecken
Stuecken
BMA
Fierro
Plans for Niceville road network eye four lane 331 bridge
PBS&J planners weigh two master plans for Niceville area road work. A four lane 331 bridge is favored while the second plan proposes six lanes on Lewis Turner Boulevard and nearby routes, with total costs around 280 to 290 million dollars. Public hearings planned for November and final MPO presentation by April 1987.
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Santa Rosa Island
Schiffer
Lewis Turner
Mary Esther
Niceville
College Boulevard
U.S. 331
Hollywood Boulevard
Eglin Parkway
White Point-Piney Point
Wright Parkway
Hollywood Bridge
Pbs&j
MPO
Dredging eyed to realign East Pass channel near Choc tawhatchee Bay
Corps plans December dredging in Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near the eastern end of Choc tawhatchee Bay with East Pass likely to be included. Champion said the East Pass project is moving ahead and deposit material may be dumped near East Pass Towers and Waterview Towers. Boat captain Danny Woodward supports a deeper, straighter channel to improve tidal flow and reduce beach erosion over time.
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Corps
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Choctawhatchee Bay
East Pass
Pruett
Richard Champion
Champion
East Pass Towers
Waterview Towers
Danny
Woodward
Dredging project decisions delayed says Pruett
Pruett said on Thursday that the cost estimate the channel width sand volume and disposal location for the dredging project are not yet decided and their evaluations are not complete.
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Pruett
Police describe use of seized cars in undercover operations
An officer explained seized vehicles are repurposed for undercover patrols or sold with proceeds funding the program. The latest seizure was a 1982 Cadillac. Funding comes from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund, with investigators paid by their departments and supplemented by the Federal Department of Law Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency when needed.
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Law Enforcement Trust Fund
Federal Department of Law Enforcement
The
Drug Enforcement Agency
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