Key Aspects:
- A proposed new port in Tampa Bay continues to face significant opposition.
- The petition against the development has grown by more than 12,000 signatures.
- Florida lawmakers have also filed new legislation that would protect the waters surrounding the port’s intended location.
The movement to block a proposed cruise port in Tampa Bay, Florida, continues to grow.
Developers have been considering building a new port on the 328 acres of land known as the Knott-Cowen tract in Manatee County. Preliminary plans also call for the purchase of Rattlesnake Key, which is a 710-acre island adjacent to the proposed site.
This would enable the world’s largest mega-ships, which can’t currently fit under the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, to operate out of Tampa for the first time…