Let's take back our city and tell the trio that our city is not for sale.
As the "visionaries" will not allow the people to vote on what our downtown should look like, Commissioner Mulvehill has organized a petition drive. Volunteers will be meeting tomorrow at 9am at the Lake Worth Shuffleboard Courts to listen to the Plan.
And although these visionaries say that all this is political grandstanding on the part of Commissioner Mulvehill because she is running for re-election, the only grandstanding that was done on Tuesday night was by Maxwell and Triolo. The fair decision was to put it on the ballot if they really respected the people they serve. They don't.
All Maxwell, Triolo and Amoroso had to do was to listen to the citizens instead of leaning back in their chairs and stuffing cotton in their ears. All they had to do was to vote to place the issue on the ballot and let the people decide, not continue the love fest they have for each other, with developers/Realtors/investors, with the false notion that building higher will bring more ad valorem to the City, that building higher will not cause a strain on our public services and resources, the love fest with their own voices and their own power...unhappy people who don't even like the name of our City or respect the majority who reside within it. Read more...
So, all of you who are interested in democracy, who believe that it is your city, not the city owned by three people sitting on the dais and believe that you should have a vote on what your city looks like and whether or not you want more buildings the size of the Lucerne in our downtown, please come tomorrow and get involved. It is your future.
Let's take back our City.
Lynn, as I understood from Tuesday Nights meeting, we are talking about 3 Lots east of Federal... We can not build east,west,north,or south. Where would you have us go to a generate a much needed tax base underground?
ReplyDeleteWhy should people in College Park, or your Neighborhood have a say on what is built east of Federal from 1st Ave So, to 2Ave No., lets leave it up to the Neighborhood Associations They are very active.
Potentially, we are talking about every lot.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you continue to insist that this will generate a tax base when it has been proven over and over again that it cost more to service these types of properties than income they generate? The ad- valorem goes to the CRA, not to the City of LW who spends money on services.
This is OUR CITY anonymous. You don't believe that we have a say in that? Are you serious? Every single resident is affected by this. As far as neighborhood associations are concerned, they might be very active but they are way too political.
Politics needs to stay out of this decision. This is about the health of our city not the potential wealth of developers who will be sucking the blood here.
You are 100% correct.
ReplyDeleteBecause the health of the city is so outstanding right now we should keep doing what we've doing for the past 6 years. Nothing
Because that's worked out soooooooooo
well there's not enough shops and empty buildings or homes to accomodate all the people and businesses that are flocking to the city for it's quaintness.
And $40 million dollar RO plant.
The depression/recession crashed our economy. Can that ever sink in with you? give the economy a chance to recover. Homes are starting to sell again but prices are flat. It will eventually get better. It all takes time. Stop blaming it on commissions that had NOTHING to do with it. Stop using this blog to rant.
ReplyDeleteWe have accomplished a lot over the last years. Where have you been?
As far as the RO, for some reason you are still against it. Please send me all your facts and figures supporting the $40 million you keep throwing up here. Also, add in all the millions it would have taken to go with the other alternative which was much higher.
As I recall in the not so distant past a group of citizens wanting to take back our city( I believe it had to do with going back to our own police force)) and you chastized those citizens and you asked the question,Take it back from who? I would like to without chastizing ask the same question of you. Who are we taking our city back from? Our elected officials?
ReplyDeleteIs it proper for Ms. Mulvihill to use City owned property for a personally motivated gathering? I understand she is a commissioner and disagrees with the Commission decision, but she is one member of a board and the way democracy works is majority rules and the board majority seems to have made it's decision. Seems more like a tantrum. Her vote didn't win, so she's going to organize a march? I think many of you who are in favor of a voter wide referendum on every single exhausting issue do not understand how the democratic system works. We vote in representatives and they make decisions for us. Just let them do their job. If we don't like their decisions, then we vote them out. When the public (who by the way is usally very misinformed on the issues) votes at large on every issue, this is not democracy, it is chaos. Oh and by the way, you are soooo exagerating the consequences of the proposed development change. Big deal, so we might end up with a few 4 or 5 story buildings. How is that the downfall of LW? Like anon said, what we've been doing for the past 30 years certainly hasn't worked. Finally we have a majority commission who understands that.
ReplyDeleteReferenda is our right under the Constitution of the United States. You want to take that away too?
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Actually that picture to the right is for all you numbskulls out there who are not looking at the big picture.
Hitler was elected too. So, we have the right to disagree; we have the right to vote them out; we have the right to recall them and we have the right to go to a referendum. We just don't have the right to go to war.
anonymous at 10:39--
ReplyDeleteDon't remember what you are quoting or think that I said but I definitely would not have consciously used incorrect grammar.
As far as taking back our city--the expression is obvious to fair minded people. Sorry you are not in that category.
The commission forgot who elected them. Let the people decide.
ReplyDeletePocket gettho(vacant unwanted construction) creators ,trying to sell their overdevelopment victim products, unsalable homes and Commercial structures(1003 Lake Avenue John Romano,Sherdy ,CRA stillborn, years unwanted and vacant),
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, which surrounds their unwanted stillborns!
Lake Worth is part of a multi billion dollar Tourism draw to Florida, concrete boxes for primitive humans' storage!
Pro-Lake Worth and respectful(only one) Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill acknowledging the will of the Lake Worth Taxpayers, has created with exact legal knowledge and experience of Laurence to follow exact legal procedures,a Charter
Amendment,
which will help Lake Worth Citizens keep the intimate warm,communal ambiance of their City.Uncouth self promoting elements on the Commission,neglectful,incapable of creating revenue for Lake Worth as promised in their Campaigns,assume the position,that once suckers, who fell for their lies and empty promises, put them in a Commission seat,
they own the City.Street people act like that,ignoring that they do not pay our taxes!!!!Who do they think they are?
They can destroy our City's identity with overdevelopment, changing building heights,previously determined the wish of Lake Worth Citizens,with experts and Citizens' input, at a cost of $1,000,000,- and 1 year surveying ,conclusion: No change in the present character and tourism attractive image and nature of Lake Worth.Those uncouth Lake Worth Commission members, unhappy with Lake Worth City,remember: People don't come to look at you,though that is what you hunger for,move to Riviera Beach ,you really belong in Lantana!Go,go.go. now!
The entire Commission and all preceeding ones ignored the fact that our CRA cost us millions of dollars from our Downtown District ,meant for our General Fund,which needs it to pay for all City swervices. The CRA was erroneously Districted in the most Lucrative ,instead of in our most blighted areas,South of 6th Ave.South,West of Dixie,which their mission is. Most Commission don't know that we receive nothing from the Taxes the City acquires from our Downtown.Redistricting would generate much needed revenue for our General Fund and ehlp with this Commission's $7,000,000,- Deficit,they ignore but want to cut our services,we pay for!
ReplyDeleteMaxwell has always shown incapable of creating revenue projects right in front of him, never contributed any cosntructive project .Why is he in that Commission seat? This Commission's First Aid kit: a Bud 6 pack!
Letting folks vote on this is fine if the voters get the truth about what is really happening. Most folks don't understand these land use rules and it will be easy for Mullvehill to distort reality to gain an advantage. I believe her opponent in this race also supports a low rise city and I don't believe this will be a real issue. No matter what the outcome of the vote, the Comp Plan will still control heights in the city given the new state law. Keep it fair and lets vote.
ReplyDeleteWhat the commission voted on was the lowering of the maximum height in all but East of Federal, which they left as is.
ReplyDeleteAnon who posted at 12:11 Ms Macnamara are you tell us that Lawrence is running against Ms Mulevhil? The Commission on Tuesday voted to lower every height from A St. to Federal Highway, that was voted on by the residence in 1996 from Federal to Golfview and 1st. and 2nd Ave. they let it remain the same as the voters voted on in 1996. Mr. Rinaldi is correct what the developers will be approved on is already in the Comp plan.
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected I just read on Wes's Blog from Frank Palin the Lawyer who wrote our Historical District Ordinance for free " The Comp Plan does not override the Charter" However he said with the New Growth Management Law a person would have to file a costly suit against the city for a building permit issued by the city that was higher than the height in the Charter.
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