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The new BocaConnect area (in green) provides people on the barrier island access to downtown (red) and from there to within the existing service area (blue). Rendering provided

 

By Mary Hladky

BocaConnect, the electric vehicle shuttle service opera

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In March, the Florida Coalition for Preservation will celebrate its 15th year of community service.
We began in response to a neighborhood crisis. In 2007, a Canadian firm had made a “too good to be true” offer to acquire the tiny town of Briny Breez

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Related Story: Highland Beach:Commission wants lesser role for town in high-rise inspections

By Joel Engelhardt

After months of work to hammer out a condo reinspection program in the wake of the Surfside tragedy, Palm Beach County commissioners decid

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9026569884?profile=RESIZE_710xState Road A1A at Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach often is jammed with vehicles, and the county Transportation Planning Agency labels it a ‘high-crash corridor’ for bicyclists even though it has bike lanes. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star BELOW RIGHT:

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Along the Coast: On Camera

Delray brings new license plate

scanners to barrier island

7960713474?profile=originalDelray Beach officer Anthony Sala speaks with a driver pulled over when a license plate recognition camera

(shown below) alerted him to an expired tag.

Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

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    As I sit through city commission meetings, I keep hearing development proposals pitched citing a trend of buildings for millennials that won’t require the usual city-required parking allocations.
    City planners seem to love this concept. The y

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Additional parking will ease a space crunch.

Rendering by Currie Sowards Aguila Architects

By Jane Smith
    
    Presbyterian parishioners will soon have a more comfortable church-going experience on the barrier island.
    The First Presbyterian Chu

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By Jane Smith
    
    He started as a valet attendant decades ago when he was in college. He liked meeting people and especially driving their cars. Soon he was “hooked” on the industry.
    “Everybody needs parking,” said Jorge Alarcon, the new parkin

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