boca raton city council

Reading time: 3 mins On Jan 27, 2020 the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District (The District) met to finalize their joint plan with the City of Boca Raton (City) to rebuild the defunct Ocean Breeze golf course into a municipal golf course. This did not happen.

Reading time: 3 mins 13th. The consensus by The District was that the amended ILA materially changed the original Feb 2, 2018 ILA. Comments made in the meeting indicated they thought it was onerous and would put The District “in financial ruin”.

Reading time: 3 mins Our Mayor, city staff and Council Members are very good at many things, but they have zero experience in the economics of rail transportation.

Reading time: 3 mins Virgin Trains answers questions about Brightline, the garage location and plans for a TOD parcel on the library property.

Reading time: 5 mins You can be FOR a train station but AGAINST the City’s current design. There are more “Boca oriented” design alternatives.

Reading time: 3 mins The problem with claiming that the VTUSA study satisfies the legal criteria is that there are no City costs factored into the economic impact study.

Reading time: < 1 min Pro-train station residents investigated Boca’s Brightline Station proposal and are concerned that residents are not being told the full story.

Reading time: < 1 min Running a small business is hard enough. BocaMatters sat down with pro-train station owner of Boca Scooters, Colton Ralston, and learned how Boca’s train station plans are forcing local small businesses out of the area.

Reading time: 2 mins Early in the discussion the District pointed out that they had over $38 million on their plate with projects such as Gumbo Limbo

Reading time: 3 mins Several of the current city council members made a pledge to “keep golf in Boca” when the existing muni course was being negotiated for sale. After this struggle to find common ground one wonders if they would make that same pledge today.