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Reading time: 3 minsAlthough a recent City Council Ordinance is touted to prevent another government campus situation from happening again, it will not. The proof is that in spite of the council recently adopted ordinance 5766, it continues to ignore the will of the residents expressed via City Charter mandated petition and continues to push through its Transit District on public land.

Reading time: 3 minsWhat’s unusual is how aggressively One Boca has been promoted politically. There is now a full on political advertising campaign in progress.

Reading time: 3 minsThere are several key pieces of information that were missing from the Mayor’s update that make it misleading to residents not closely following this project.

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?

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.