boca politics

Reading time: 4 mins Twice in recent years, these United Healthcare subscribers received letters warning that Boca Raton Regional Hospital won’t agree to take their insurance.

Reading time: 5 mins If it had in fact sold it to itself (in the form of a shell company), its inability to ‘make reasonable use of the property’ would have been self-created, that is, ‘directly attributable’ to its own actions.

Reading time: 2 mins Earlier this month Virgin Trains indicated their desire to provide additional stops between Fort Lauderdale and Jupiter, Florida. The City of Boca Raton is high on their list of potential targets and discussions appear to be underway.

Reading time: < 1 min Also known as “Transit Oriented Districts”, Boca Raton has 5 areas in Boca zoned as PMD. In this interview, Steve Utrecht explains PMDs and how they are intended to provide affordable housing and reduce traffic but are problematic if not implemented properly.

Reading time: 3 mins Boca Parents are fighting to save their kid’s summer. The question of starting school on August 10th is on the table the Palm Beach County School Board for both the 2020 and 2021 school years.

Reading time: 5 mins Palm Beach County is building a 400′ tower. The value to Boca’s public safety is that by owning the tower, it can prevent consumer cellular communications by other “tenants” on the tower.

Reading time: 2 mins Yes, property owners have rights and protections; as do the City’s residents. Good development accomplishes both.

Reading time: 6 mins Boca election laws do not provide for runoffs. So in a 3-way race where the candidate with the most votes is less than 50%, the majority of voters are represented by the candidate of the minority. Ranked Choice Voting fixes this.

Reading time: 6 mins The city is between a rock and a hard place. We were told several times that the county is going to build a 400’ tower in the area whether the city agrees to this deal or not.

Reading time: 2 mins The final decision on how Beach and Parks will approach the City was that Mr Fazio (the architect of the proposed design) will present the design to the City on June 10 in its workshop.