By Dan Moffett
After more than a decade on life support, the end appears near for the last commercial district in Ocean Ridge.
The Town Commission has rejected an amendment that essentially would have grandfathered the five-store strip at 5011
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For two years after we moved into our office at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd., people would stop in asking where the dry cleaner was. They looked crestfallen when I explained the locations of two businesses across the bridge.
At least once a week throug
By Dan Moffett
After the furor over the Red Cross plan for a Designers’ Show House on Point Manalapan, town commissioners are working to draft a new ordinance that would prohibit large, multiday special events.
“This is the result of the recent
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan commissioners are grumbling about the high cost of litigating grievances with the Police Benevolent Association, and that could mean tougher contract negotiations between the town and union next year.
Since the current
By Dan Moffett
Faced again with dipping into reserves to balance the budget, Ocean Ridge commissioners aren’t buying some things that town officials wanted for the next fiscal year.
Police Chief Chris Yannuzzi isn’t going to get two new patrol
If approved, the new condo would be built where mangroves stand
between Regency Highland (left) and the three towers of Toscana on the right.
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By Rich Pollack
A developer’s request for permission to build a 209-foot-tall, 16-story l
A sign hangs from a truck parked in the Gulf Stream Town Hall parking lot.
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By Dan Moffett
Hardly anyone expected budget problems to surface in Gulf Stream, one of South Florida’s most affluent enclaves — a place where
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners wanted to crack down on nuisance rentals of single-family homes last year when they passed an ordinance that set new fees and registration requirements for landlords and tenants.
While the law has helped
By Dan Moffett
With the budgeting in Ocean Ridge comes a debate over semantics.
A sizable new expenditure in the town’s proposed 2014-15 budget is $85,000 to hire another police officer.
Town commissioners are supporting the hiring as a way
By Dan Moffett
Unable to find help from larger governments or a financing plan that suits them, Manalapan commissioners have decided to pay for their Audubon Causeway Bridge project the old-fashioned way.
They will raise taxes.
The Town
By Rich Pollack
It is a question for the ages, but with a bit of a twist in Highland Beach.
If a tree falls on the public right of way and no one is around to see it happen, does the adjacent property owner still have to replace it?
That’s
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge residents may soon get some definitive answers on how commissioners plan to resolve the town’s long-running debate over public beach access.
The town commission listened to more opinions from residents during a Ju
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream commissioners moved with unusual speed to pass unanimously an emergency ordinance that brings the town’s code in line with federal disability housing requirements.
The new law took effect immediately, without the
By Dan Moffett
Town commissioners gave their approval for a Red Cross charity event on Point Manalapan, but not before plenty of hand-wringing over the possibility their good wishes might have some bad consequences.
Desiree and Lambert Van
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan has the lowest tax rate in Palm Beach County, and some of its highest property values and budget reserves that are the envy of communities across the bridge.
So finding $750,000 to replace the town’s failing Audubon Cau
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream town commissioners have just begun thinking about a budget for the next fiscal year, but already they are close to a consensus that they can’t afford to give taxpayers a rate rollback.
The decision to hold the line do
By Dan Moffett
Christopher O’Hare tried another argument to get a metal roof approved for his Place au Soleil home, but Gulf Stream town commissioners rejected it like all the others.
This time, however, the rejection wasn’t unanimous, but 4-1.
By Dan Moffett
It might be time for Ocean Ridge to think about adding a motto to the town seal.
How about “World Leader in Beach Access Opinions”?
Town commissioners heard plenty of them from residents during a lively 2½-hour workshop that e
By Dan Moffett
Homeowners and house flippers who ignore code violations aren’t likely to get much sympathy from the Ocean Ridge Town Commission these days.
Ask Prodigy Capital, a Palm Beach Gardens-based real estate investment group that pl
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners have grudgingly agreed to give the owners of the town’s five-store business district a three-month extension to submit plans for overhauling the 60-foot-deep strip at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd.
But they warned
