TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. - Mark Hohe can see the Thunderbird Beach Resort from his Treasure Island home.

"We understood that what was being proposed was going to affect the Thunderbird, the iconic Thunderbird Hotel," he said. "You won't find anybody that is against having that rebuilt."

The backstory:

The Thunderbird Beach Resort wants to build back taller, to four stories, compared to the current two and three-story buildings.

They hope to have 184 rooms compared to the previous 106. The owner and resort representatives submitted an application to Treasure Island officials asking for height and density changes for hotels and motels in certain spots of the city to allow them to do this.

"We're not looking to propose a high-rise," GM Donna Jollimore said to city officials at a meeting i

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