The ongoing debate over a fence New York Yankees star Derek Jeter plans to build at his

At 31,000-square feet, Derek Jeter's Davis Islands mansion will be the largest home in the county.

Davis Islands home appears to be over.
A Tampa variance review board voted 7-0 Tuesday night to allow a six-foot privacy fence to be built around the 31,000-square foot home (the county’s biggest, by the way) rising on the island. City code normally allows only for a 3-foot solid wall and a 4-foot “barrier” on street front lots.

A spokesman for the Yankees’ shortstop said the higher fence is needed for security reasons.

Neighbor David Lurie agreed with the ruling.

“I firsthand witness people driving up in a taxi cab, get out with Jeter baseball shirt, Yankee shirts, take pictures in front of his house,’ Lurie said. “And people are doing that with a home that’s not even finished being built yet.”

Other neighbors on Bahama Circle said they understand the need for privacy but fear the large fence will be an eyeshore.

“It’s already a wall. We call it the great wall of Jeter,’ said Taylor Ward. “It is gigantic and if you haven’t experienced it viscerally. I don’t think you can understand what it’s doing to the feeling of our street.”

Members of the variance board said in addition to security, the fence is needed to hide the home’s large electrical equipment.

Plans call for the fence to be part concrete and part wrought iron.

When completed, the waterfront home will have seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

Source: http://www.baynews9.com

More about Derek Jeter

Derek Sanderson Jeter (pronounced /ˈdʒiːtər/; born June 26, 1974) is a Major League Baseball shortstop and team captain of the New York Yankees.

Jeter served as a driving force for a Yankees dynasty, which resulted in four World Series championships between 1996 and 2000 He is considered a consummate professional, by teammates and opponents alike. He has spent his entire career with the Yankees, beginning in 1995. In 2009, he passed Mickey Mantle for most career at-bats with the team, a record that had stood since 1968. He also passed Babe Ruth for most career doubles on June 23, 2009. Jeter, a former American League Rookie of the Year, has won the Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards on three occasions, and has been named to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game ten times. In 2000, he became the only player to win both the All-Star Game MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in the same year.

His .316 career batting average through the 2008 season ranks him with the 5th-highest lifetime batting average of all active baseball players. He has been in the top seven in the American League in hits for eight of the past ten years and runs scored seven of the past ten years. On June 2, 2009, Jeter became the 74th player to reach 2,600 hits. In the same game he scored his 1,500th run, joining Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle as the only Yankees to reach that milestone.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jeter

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