By Steve Plunkett
In-road pedestrian crosswalk signs may soon appear on State Road A1A in Boca Raton.
Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie, who is running for mayor, urged her colleagues Feb. 25 to tell City Manager Leif Ahnell to pursue getting the free, mostly day-glow yellow signs from the state Department of Transportation for the 17 crosswalks on A1A.
“It’s a safety issue, and it’s just an important thing to do for our pedestrians along A1A,” Haynie said, relaying a request from the Beach Condominiums Association.
Council Member Anthony Majhess, her opponent in the mayor’s race, said no one supported him when he requested the same thing in 2012.
“It’s something we should have done two years ago,” Majhess said.
Council members decided Ahnell should either ask the state DOT to install the signs, which Highland Beach and Deerfield Beach already have, or report back on why they are not a good idea.
In other action, the City Council approved letting a new firm manufacture craft beer in the Penn-Florida Commerce Center on South Rogers Circle. Barrel of Monks will be Boca Raton’s first brewery.
It will primarily produce beer for resale by distributors but will also have a tasting room with a 15-foot bar.
“This is not the kind of beer that’s chugged at Dolphins games,” said Mitch Kirschner, the brewery’s lawyer.
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