Florida Senate - 2013                            (NP)    SR 1876
       
       
       
       By Senator Latvala
       
       
       
       
       20-02543-13                                           20131876__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing Clearwater Beach’s election
    3         by the readers of USA Today as “Florida’s best beach
    4         town.”
    5  
    6         WHEREAS, Clearwater Beach stretches along 3 miles of
    7  blindingly white sugar-sand beaches on the Sunshine State’s west
    8  coast and is one of the top tourist destinations along the Gulf
    9  Coast, attracting about four million visitors annually, and
   10         WHEREAS, Clearwater Beach was dubbed “the Disney World of
   11  beaches” by the Tampa Bay Times, and USA Today noted that it is
   12  equal parts "Mad Men-esque" and flip-flop casual, attracting
   13  springbreakers, young families, baseball fans, and snowbirds,
   14  and
   15         WHEREAS, Clearwater Beach was the beneficiary of a $30
   16  million makeover in 2008, which created the broad, palm-lined
   17  promenade known as Beach Walk, and
   18         WHEREAS, Clearwater Beach is the birthplace of Hooters
   19  Restaurant and home to both retired professional wrestler and
   20  restaurateur Hulk Hogan and Hollywood star Winter, the
   21  bottlenose dolphin with the prosthetic tail who resides in the
   22  nonprofit Clearwater Marine Aquarium, and
   23         WHEREAS, in February 2013, the readers of USA Today elected
   24  Clearwater Beach “Florida’s best beach town” from a slate of 10
   25  nominees advanced by coastal expert Stephen “Dr. Beach”
   26  Leatherman, NOW, THEREFORE,
   27  
   28  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
   29  
   30         That we recognize Clearwater Beach’s election by the
   31  readers of USA Today as “Florida’s best beach town.”