By Steve Plunkett
Relations between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and the city withered in June like an unwatered lawn in the hot Florida sun.
• District Chairman Robert Rollins listed a year’s worth of failed efforts to get th
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INSET BELOW: Prokos and Ursini (left); Sember and Massimino (right)
By Sallie James
When it comes to saving lives, some Boca Raton Fire Rescue members stand out. City Council members recently recognized four of the department’s finest, lauding
By Sallie James
It’s finally settled. Boca Raton voters will get the chance to decide two issues on the Aug. 30 primary election ballot: Whether unexpected City Council vacancies should be filled by special election and whether council members sho
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton will add left-turn lanes on eastbound Palmetto Park Road at Mizner Boulevard and Northeast/Southeast Fifth Avenue and buy a train detection system so it can better time traffic signals at the Palmetto Park crossing.
By Steve Plunkett
The meeting pitted City Council member Robert Weinroth against a roomful of unhappy Boca Raton residents mostly from the barrier island and downtown.
The adversarial nature was apparent from the start, when Weinroth no
By Steve Plunkett
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District plans to hand-deliver a check for $3.7 million — as soon as the City Council finds time to accept it.
The money is half the local cost of renourishing the city’s beaches from the
By Steve Plunkett
A week before a Dec. 7 joint meeting with City Council, commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District abruptly pulled two items from the agenda.
Off the table will be any talk of interlocal agreements to repl
The Mark at CityScape has been criticized for its appearance.
File photo
By Mary Hladky
Dissatisfied with the appearance of The Mark at CityScape and concerned that more buildings with design flaws will sprout up downtown, the Boca Raton City Cou
By Rich Pollack
A redrawn blueprint for development of one of Boca Raton’s largest remaining parcels of undeveloped property got the green light to move forward from the City Council despite concerns from members of the Boca Raton Airport Authorit
By Sallie James
Boca Raton homeowners will pay a slightly lower total property tax rate this year under a $625 million 2015-2016 budget that includes 70 new employees, several generous allocations to nonprofit organizations and some user fee hikes
By Steve Plunkett
After nearly four years, it’s time to talk about the future of Ocean Strand again.
“Sometime this fiscal year we need to have that discussion,” Commissioner Robert Rollins told fellow commissioners at the Greater Boca Raton Be
By Sallie James
Boca Raton would add four code enforcement officers, four firefighter/paramedics and five new police officers under a proposed 2015-2016 municipal budget that holds the line on property taxes and adds two new programs and new perso
The 24-unit, nine-story luxury condo will be built at 327 E. Royal Palm Road.
Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
While two recent downtown Boca Raton development projects garnered impassioned opposition, the 24-unit 327 Royal Palm condominium has
By Rich Pollack
Rules governing the Boca Raton Airport Authority could soon be a bit more relaxed if bylaw changes hammered out last month receive final approval.
In a meeting that had the potential to be contentious, Boca Raton Airport Autho
Boca Raton’s proposed tax rate for the upcoming year will be discussed during the Aug. 11 City Council meeting, said Mike Woika, assistant city manager.
The current tax rate held the line, at $3.71 per $1,000 of assessed value for 2014, slight
By Sallie James
They say three times is a charm. But in the case of Chabad of East Boca Raton, it was actually more.
After four hours of lengthy discussion, City Council members late July 28 voted 5-0 in favor of the ambitious beachside orthod
Even in Sol-A-Mar’s scaled-back version, four of the seven proposed buildings
would still exceed the city’s 120-foot height limits.
Rendering provided
By Mary Hladky
The New Mizner on the Green “ultra-luxury” condo project has a new name, a new
By Sallie James
A standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 staunch supporters and fierce opponents of a controversial beachside synagogue packed Boca Raton City Hall last month for a showdown about the project’s site plan.
But they left without r
By Sallie James
Calling Boca Raton’s recently negotiated police and fire contracts a “reset” and a compromise, City Council members in April voted 4-1 to approve the long overdue agreements.
The contracts are expected to save the city approxima
During a March 29 celebration held on the proposed site of the Harry and Celia Litwak Chabad Center,
Rabbi Ruvi New recognizes Irving Litwak (right) who donated $2.7 million for the property in his parents’ honor.
The sign in the background anticipat
