Two weeks ago, dozens of residents of Tampa’s V. M. Ybor neighborhood told Tampa City Council in no uncertain terms that they were against the proposed move into their area of Trinity Cafe, which serves free lunches to the homeless.
When the issue came up for a second time this Thursday, Trinity rallied supporters to make a counter-argument in favor of moving its dining hall to Nebraska Avenue.
In the end, the Trinity supporters won out — not because the City Council thinks it’s a good thing for the facility to move into a neighborhood that has spoken out strongly against it — but simply because legally it was not Council’s call to decide.
The issue was brought up two weeks ago by Council member Frank Reddick, whose District 5 seat includes the V.M. neighborhood.
This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2012.
