Reading time: 5 minsThere’s been an explosion of money funneled into Boca Raton’s election and it comes from PACs. Two candidates have more PAC money than individual donations.
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Reading time: 10 minsWith so much speculation about campaign finances, we decided to dig into it and find out where the money came from. In this article I present our analysis of the public campaign reports and who is funding whom.
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Reading time: 11 minsThe police substation is missing from the Memorial Park land use concept diagram so expect that “whoopsie” to delete yet another amenity from “East Boca’s Patch Reef Park” to make room for the Transit District. Bye bye sports field?
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Reading time: 8 minsUn-blighted city buildings and public lands that bring only the traffic and intensity needed to run the city and police station will be redeveloped into a series of 8-story high-rises for what urban planners call a Transit Oriented District that brings all their traffic and intensity into one of the worst congested areas in east Boca Raton. The older privately owned properties will remain.
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Reading time: 5 minsThe cornerstone of a real protected intersection from which the other features follow are the reconstructed corners with “corner refuge islands”. The demo project at Mizner Park needs significant changes when implemented permanently in order to provide the safety benefits of a protected intersection.
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Reading time: 6 minsHow is it that in 2025, as we spend millions to fix the unfixable problems created by mindless construction of concrete boxes with windows and parsley on top, are we not preventing history from repeating itself in subarea D with Camino Square?
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Reading time: 4 minsThe demonstration project is located at the intersection of NE Mizner Blvd and NE 2nd St, just down the block from Mizner Park. It’s an interesting place to try the Protected Intersection principles
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Reading time: < 1 minThe wheels of change move slowly in government. But as we celebrate three years of…
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Reading time: 3 minsIn memory of John Gore, we look at the de-beautification of Boca Raton. Notably, we examine the long term effect of the adoption of new architectural guidelines by the 2015 Boca City Council (against the wishes of residents) called the Interim Design Guidelines, was the perfidious moment that started a 10 year run on boxy buildings and, consequently, the erasure of Boca Raton’s unique and historic Mizner inspired look.
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Reading time: 3 minsThis article shows how the Addison Mizner School “Roll/Stroll to School” infrastructure is failing in the era of e-bikes and e-scooters.