Boca Raton: Planned seaside mansion leads city to explore beach property acquisitions
A city decision to allow construction of a four-story beachside mega-mansion on an undersized oceanfront parcel is having a ripple effect. In the wake of the controversial Dec. 8 City Council decision, the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District has agreed to identify all privately owned, buildable beachfront properties, obtain available market values for the parcels and find out if council members would support an acquisition if it had public value. “I am certainly not op
Beachfront mansion spurs requests from Boca to Beach district about acquiring more land.
Boca Raton officials are looking to the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District to buy up all the privately owned vacant beachfront property in the city to preserve it for public use. The push comes shortly after the City Council reluctantly agreed that a property owner can build a 10,000-square-foot, four-story house on the beach at 2500 N. Ocean Blvd. This week, Mayor Susan Haynie sent a letter to Susan Vogelgesang, chairwoman of the district's board of commissioners, aski
Fights Worth Fighting!
We fight the fights that need to be fought…. Boca Raton is under attack! Residents from all over town are fighting the good fight against the ever-expanding impact on their quality of life; a quality of life that has, over the last decade, dramatically changed through the votes of a ‘developer friendly’ city council. This must end! In the last two weeks, our elected officials voted on two items reflecting their ‘tone deafness’ to the sentiments of residents; to wit: Univers
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