Legislative Hearing - Correction of a scriveners error on the Conditional Use approval from March 1, 2021 for the operation of a 33-machine arcade amusement center at 2051 South US Highway 1 in Fort Pierce, FL. The floor plan presented and approved by the City Commission actually showed 45 machine slots rather than the 33 machines included in the narrative.   The property is zoned General Commercial (C-3). Parcel ID: 2415-313-0005-010-9. 

Subsequent to the Commission approval and upon application for Business Tax Receipt and Arcade Permit and Registration, we discovered that the number of machines shown on the floor plan included 31 single player machines, a table of 4 players and a table of 10 players.   The multi-player tables were inadvertently counted as single machines rather than the 45 total machines as we actually permit them.   The City Clerk’s office charges and issues a permit sticker for each coin slot, as that more accurately represents the number of players accommodated within the arcade.

It is the City Clerk's position that the floor plan clearly indicated that 45 players would be accommodated on site, therefore the total is 45 machines rather than 33 as approved, and that it was simply a scriveners error when classifying the total number of machines. Accordingly, we respectfully request that the City Commission reconsider and increase their original approval of 33 machines to 45 machines as originally illustrated in their floor plan and more accurately accounting for the total number of players accommodated within the arcade as presented.

Approve a different number of machines or do not change the existing approval. 

Linda W. Cox, City Clerk

Tanya Earley, City Attorney