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City approves Clearwater Marine Aquarium's expansion plan

The Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s expansion plans have received approval from the city’s Community Development Review Board.About 800,000 people visited the aquarium last year thanks in part to “movie stars” Winter and Hope, the dolphins.Aquarium officials said they need more room.“There’s a problem with cars parking off-site right now, parking in the street, parking in off-site lots, also people walking across the street to come see us, that’s the issue we’re trying to resolve,” said David yates, CEO, Clearwater Marine Aquarium.The aquarium plans to double the facility on its current lot from about 60,000 square feet to about 130,000 square feet.Tanks for Winter and Hope will grow to 1.4 million gallons and a 440-space parking garage will be added.Some Island Estates homeowners attending the meeting said it’s catching them by surprise.“We are bitterly disappointed at the action of this board. To say we were properly advised as homeowners and were included as partners in this is absolutely untrue because we found out about this last Monday, which gave us three business days to respond and a holiday weekend in between,” said Vera Guinan.Residents said the aquarium has outgrown the neighborhood and they’re worried about large crowds and traffic if it expands.“The people that were in the know, that knew this was going on, were not the residents of the island and those are the people who are going to be the most affected,” said Skip Shepherd.Aquarium officials counter that the new plan will actually keep people from trying to park in the neighborhood and keep them on the aquarium’s property instead.“We’ve had a long-standing relationship with Island Estates for many, many years. So this is a big issue. We’re in a residential area. We understand the concerns. But we listen very carefully. For the last few years, I’ve heard a lot about the issue of taking the impact we make outside our facility and put it back on the lot, so we’re doing that right now,” said Yates.The aquarium decided against a plan to build a new, more expensive facility in downtown Clearwater and expand at its current location instead.Yates estimates the expansion will cost less than $50 million.

City approves Clearwater Marine Aquarium"s expansion plan

Victor Harbor aquarium plan faces surfers' protest near Granite Island

Hundreds of Victor Harbor locals have paddled into the water on surfboards as a protest against a proposed aquarium tourism venture off Granite Island.

Developer Oceanic Victor plans to take people from the island to an offshore pontoon by boat, to let them interact with dozens of tuna and other fish in an enclosure.

A similar venture at Port Lincoln closed last year.

Long-time Victor Harbor surfer Steve Lock said locals were worried the aquarium might lure more sharks into the waters, south of Adelaide.

“You’ve always got the sharks a little it in the back of your mind so the last thing you want is anything that might sort of add to the risk,” he said.

“The sharks are definitely a concern, but there’s also the environment — in terms of what falls out from the aquarium.”

Another local surfer Lani Arens said the venture would not help existing businesses at Victor Harbor.

“A lot of our businesses going at the moment are actually aquatic-based so if they bring that sort of stuff in, if it brings sharks, it’s really going to scare away anyone that wants to learn how to surf, all that sort of stuff,” she said.

“It’s just not going to be any good for any of the local businesses.”

Any tourism venture welcome: mayor

Victor Harbor Mayor Graham Philp said emotions had run high in the town over the issue.

“Most of our economy comes from tourism and we know Granite Island is falling a bit flat at the moment,” he said.

“Any tourism venture is welcome to Victor Harbor, but it still has to go through the correct processes.

“We are having issues with older tourism facilities closing down, for example what’s happened on Granite Island [where kiosk and shop closed].”

Primary Industries South Australia said in a statement the tourist development was unlikely to alter any patterns of shark behaviour in the south coast area.

Oceanic Victor said previously there would not be any impact on local marine life and it would source pilchards to feed its aquarium species without affecting fishing or other activities in the Victor Harbor area.

The State Government said it had been assured by the developer that divers and veterinary staff would maintain the integrity of the local waters by regularly checking enclosure nets and regional marine life.

Environment Minister Ian Hunter agreed with the mayor that Granite Island was “a little bit run down” and said the Government was keen to see a new tourism attraction for the area.

Victor Harbor aquarium plan faces surfers" protest near Granite Island

Consultants suggest changes to aquarium plan

A Massachusetts consulting firm is halfway through its feasibility study of a major aquarium project in Crystal River, and it is recommending some significant changes to the project.

ConsultEcon Inc., contracted by Art Jones and his nonprofit One Rake At Time group to conduct a $41,000 feasibility study on Jones’ conceptual $35 million aquarium, arrived in October to get a tour of the 1.3-acre lot between U.S. 19 and northern Cedar Cove on which Jones hopes to place the attraction.

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