Hurricane damage and a complex redevelopment process have left residents at the Twin City Mobile Home Park in limbo.
The flood-prone, 71-year-old community is at 10636 Gandy Boulevard, near Derby Lane. It is also within an isolated section of unincorporated Pinellas County, surrounded by the City of St. Petersburg.
Lakeshore Management, the property owner, applied for a land use map amendment that would permit a multifamily development on the 8.94-acre parcel. The company proposed replacing what remains of the mobile home park with a 133-unit apartment complex; however, the county’s comprehensive plan prohibits that level of increased density within a Coastal Storm Area (CSA)…