Critics complained that the plaque erected in March appears to say that some departing council members had created Memorial Park, rather than its 1947 founders. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
In its first meetings since the pivotal March 10 election,
Two on council suggest it may be divisive, prefer trained planner
By Mary Hladky
Two weeks after the Boca Raton City Council created a task force to help decide how the 31.7-acre downtown campus should be improved, its existence is in jeopardy becaus
By Mary Hladky
Past Boca Raton City Council members have said it took them as long as a year to learn the arcana of how a city functions so they could do their jobs effectively.
Save Boca founder Jon Pearlman faced that learning curve during his firs
Related: City starts over on downtown campus
By Mary Hladky
Save Boca’s endorsed candidates trounced the opposition in the city’s March 10 election, sweeping three City Council races.
Boca Raton voters also soundly defeated the city’s efforts to red
Save Boca starts new petition, not trusting that vote will be held
Terra and Frisbie Group’s latest renderings of the proposed buildings on the east side of Second Avenue show restaurant and other retail on ground floors, pedestrian promenade, protec
Council puts downtown measure on March ballot after Save Boca’s setback
Boca Raton City Council member Andy Thomson discusses edits -- being shown on an overhead projection at the Dec. 2 council meeting -- to the wording of a March 10 ballot quest
Voters can change rules to let public decide project’s fateA new version of the downtown plan shows park and recreation with City Hall to the west of Northwest Second Avenue/Boca Raton Boulevard, and development mainly to the east of the road. Rend
Jon Pearlman (center,front) and other Save Boca supporters bring petitions to Boca Raton City Hall on Sept. 23 to give to the city clerk. The petitions seek a vote on a city charter change regarding the sale or lease of city property. Photo provided
The revised plan for the downtown campus cuts commercial and residential square footage and keeps more recreation and green space. Memorial Park will get a new monument. Rendering by Terra and Frisbie Group
By Mary Hladky
As opposition to the city
Boca Raton residents pack the Aug. 26 City Council meeting where Save Boca presented to the council 5,200 signatures on a petition geared toward stopping a proposed mixed-use development. It includes a new City Hall, Community Center, retail space an
Holly Schuttler (l-r), Liz DeBiase, Jon Pearlman and Dawn Alford Zook, of Save Boca, hold signs in support of their agenda. The group’s petitions call for amendments to a city ordinance and to the City Charter that would not allow the City Council to
