Reading time: 4 mins When it comes to standing up to developers, city council has a bite without teeth.
Alan Neibauer

Alan Neibauer
Alan Neibauer, originally from Philadelphia, lives in downtown Boca Raton. He has a degree in journalism from Temple University, and a masters degree from the Fels Institute of Government, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which he attended as a Fels Scholar. Neibauer worked as a reporter and editor for several suburban Philadelphia newspapers, specializing in community planning and zoning boards. At the City of Philadelphia, he served as Public Information Officer covering the Philadelphia Planning Board, Health Department, and Voter Registration. He has written hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. He served as chairman of the Computer Information Systems department at Holy Family College in Philadelphia, and has written over 60 books on computer hardware and software. He also served as a member of the Planning and Zoning Board in Longport, New Jersey, before relocating in South Florida.
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Reading time: 3 mins Single family zones are in the crosshairs of every developer, and it’s happening right here in Boca Raton.
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Reading time: 3 mins Multi-use development is failing, isolating downtown from the average resident, and making Mayor and Council irrelevant to many.
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Reading time: 4 mins It looks like another done deal. This time it’s the proposed hotel to replace the Mizner Plaza shopping center and downtown post office
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Reading time: 3 mins BOCA RATON – JUNE 28, 2023: On behalf of James Batmasian, Boca Raton land use…
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Reading time: 4 mins Breadcrumbs sometimes lead to the true fairness of the quasi-judicial process of City Council and CRA meetings
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Reading time: 3 mins Sometimes we lose track that we have a representative democracy. Rather than a direct democracy, where the public votes on everything, we elect representatives to serve in our place. We pick representatives that have demonstrated they align with the beliefs and wishes of their constituents.
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Reading time: 4 mins Aletto at Sanborn is so big that they need to transfer half of its space from development rights from another area.
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Reading time: 4 mins We already know that there are wizards at work behind the curtain to get developments approved.
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Reading time: 5 mins What was supposed to be an “interim” experiment, is now becoming the de-facto guide for Boca’s concrete tsunami.
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