We're talking, really, about a full-fledged resort management plan.The horror genre loves to upend a beloved tradition - Christmas, birthday parties, birth itself - into an opportunity for mayhem and massacre.
This task force can go way beyond spring break. 'This may have been a blessing in disguise. The task force would become part of the chamber and, Mirabal said, one day help direct much of the area's tourism. 'We've told them, 'We have a problem and we think you can help,'' Mirabal said. Of the more than 700 arrests made during spring break '89 only 35 percent were students, and 368 of those were from Daytona Beach.Īrrangements have been made to have major corporate sponsors MTV, Playboy and Anheuser-Busch come to Daytona for meetings with civic leaders. Managing Florida residents must also be considered, Kelly and Mirabal agreed. Another proposal would have the names of any students arrested sent to their university presidents for possible disciplinary action. There also are provisions for noise, beach and traffic controls.īars would close an hour earlier, at 2 a.m.
WHO PLAYED THE JUDGE IN THE MOVIE SPRING BREAKERS CODE
The chamber's report, to be considered in the next two weeks by the city and county, calls for hotels to establish a code of conduct and provide more of their own security for minor disturbances. And the only way we are going to manage it is to have a permanent Spring Break Festival Task Force, staffed year-round.' 'The key to this whole thing,' Mirabal said, 'is to manage spring break. A special chamber of commerce committee also went to work, finally producing 89 recommendations in an 85-page report. Kelly had the city staff study alternatives. Others like owner Allan Cohen at the Texan Hotel say breakers account for 40 percent of the year's income.ĭaytona Beach civic leaders do not want to lose that business without a fight. Some Daytona Beach business people like Lambros Papalambros, owner of Panorama Gifts, tell you they make practically nothing off the spring break crowd. Now there are more families and European visitors travel agents previously wouldn't book into Fort Lauderdale 'because they knew they might get run off the road by some drunk college kid,' Tapp said.įrom a peak of 350,000 in 1985, the number of breakers doing their thing in Fort Lauderdale dropped to as few as 30,000 this past spring, Tapp said. He said Fort Lauderdale has seen an evolution in its tourists since the city began in 1986 to discourage spring breakers from coming. We know we did,' said Tom Tapp with the Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation Department. Thus were the breakers driven to Daytona Beach, which at first welcomed them with open arms and cash registers.
Which of course is exactly the chorus heard three years ago in Fort Lauderdale, where folks endured the college ritual for years after the movie 'Where the Boys Are' put the city on the springtime map.
'But if we have another year like last year there will be a very strong movement to say, 'Hey, let's not have spring break here any more.'' 'I think this community understands we're trying and will give us the opportunity to see how it works next year,' he said. Mayor Larry Kelly said citizen concern is so overwhelming the entire city commission, including himself, will likely be ousted if residents have to live through another period like the spring of '89. 'We want the kids to keep coming and be safe,' Mirabal said, 'but we need to tell them there are rules and regulations.' Even worse, city residents living near the beach and its strip of hotels and night clubs awoke in the early morning after the bars closed to the noise of beer bottles breaking in their driveways and young people urinating in their front yards.
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