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Ideas for fountain in the roundabout?
By CHRISTINA HEADRICK
© St. Petersburg Times, CLEARWATER -- Do you have a great idea for how the city should replace the massive, water guzzling, $2.1-million fountain in the center of the roundabout on Clearwater Beach? If you do, you could be $800 richer and have your idea heralded throughout the city. And maybe the city will take your advice. The Clearwater Beach Association will sponsor a competition this fall to help the city decide what to put in the center of the city's large roundabout at the entryway to the beach -- if the City Commission decides to remove the roundabout's fountain. The association will award the winners $800 for first place, $300 for second and $200 for third. The competition will be open to landscape architects and other design professionals, said Anne Garris, a beach association member working on the project. "We just feel like it's a very important issue, and it would be real good for everybody to have several professional designs to look at," Garris said. "It's so special, and it just needs to be something absolutely wonderful out there." A deadline hasn't been set yet for entries. The judges will be a member of the beach association, Clearwater Beach Chamber of Commerce, the city's Roundabout Advisory Committee and a landscape designer, Garris said. City commissioners will review the winners, although commissioners emphasized Monday that they will not have to accept the winning design. City staff members have been researching how to modify or replace the fountain for several weeks. The possibilities include leaving the existing fountain or removing it to reduce obstruction to drivers. Suggested replacements for the fountain include a smaller reflecting pool and a landscaped area.
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