Fences

D wrote this as a letter to the editor. I am happy to pass it along:

I’ve just seen a new use for shrimp doors that I would have never thought of. Residential fencing, boy does it look tawdry. I was driving down to South Point Marina when I noticed the shrimp door fence adjoining a tastefully created southwestern style stucco fence belonging to the soon to be new Pirates Cove Subdivision that some are talking about. The owner for that subdivision has done a superb job in providing PI a badly needed facelift to a former industrial area, otherwise known by the old timers as “la palengana.”

In comparison, the trailer park on the North side that has provided “the shrimp door fence” is complete with requisite trash pile that the city of PI seems to ignore for mysterious reasons. Is this due to apathy, or deference to the property owner on the part of PI? Perhaps there are no enforceable codes?

This is the conundrum I pondered as I drove passed these two edifices which seem to represent PI as it is (status quo) and the potential of what PI could be.

I would hope that the future of Port Isabel is as it could be.