Lake Worth Beach in 2030: City hopes to hit 50,000 residents, keep beach-town feel
When you get planners involved, this is what they envision for our city. We are one of the densest cities around already! On top of that, the city can't manage anything and wants a public/private partnership at our beach. They are posed and ready to do this.Commissioners continually tell us that we are a city of 7 square miles. We are, but some of it is water. We are under 6 square miles with around 38,000 people living on the land and 10,777 are not even citizens.
| Area | |
|---|---|
| • City | 6.67 sq mi (17.27 km2) |
| • Land | 5.88 sq mi (15.22 km2) |
| • Water | 0.79 sq mi (2.05 km2) 12.69% |
So they want to increase our city by 24%...people living on top of people. Where are the people going to come from? Do they really think they will attract moneyed people who want to live on top of their neighbor? Is this the 'Build it and They Will Come' theory? Where? More structures, more services and more costs across the board that they ignore. But I guess they have that figured out like everything else.
Read about it... You are led to believe that William Waters runs this place but it's the city manager who has all these commissioners dangling on strings who approve everything he wants.
And they want to keep our small town charm?
8 comments:
We fought this for decades. Developers win.
12.02,
Florida is a sunny place for shady people.
Keep on fighting against politician and developer corruption.
CM AND COMMISSION ARE PLAYING YOU SCRATCH MY BACK I'LL SCRATCH YOURS WITH CITIZENS TAX MONEY.
RIP PETER TIMM WHO SAID WE CITIZENS ARE VIEWED AS WALKING WALLETS.
We have 7-8 brand new homes built in parrot cove and eden place in the past 6 months and empty lots are currently being groomed for new construction. This area haven’t looked this vibrant, updated, and clean in 35 years or perhaps when it was first developed. Doesn’t feel crowded at all plenty of space and parking.
Yes. Let's discourage development. Who needs the increased tax revenue? Who needs the increased utility usage? Who needs new customers to our local businesses?
As Florida fills up at a rate of 1000 new people every day, let's encourage them to move in elsewhere. We don't need them! We want to stay small and stagnant. Keep our deteriorated slum neighborhoods and discourage infill of the vacant lots. And then we can continue to bitch and moan about all the illegals who find our low rent neighborhoods just right for their style of living. Why try to improve?
Some people are just so small-minded.
And some people just want to ruin cities, anonymous @9:54.
We can't afford ourselves now...and the illegals are a big part of our problem. The slum neighborhoods will continue to exist and just get worse especially with the liberals in power who actually ignore that part of town. Our city is over 60% rentals and 1/3rd non-citizens. You think that will just go away?
Service costs will be driven out of site if we add this many people to our city. We won't even have the capacity to give them basic services. Of course,the city wants to build a new power plant with NO MONEY. They'll figure out how to give that away too. The worst management ever!
There's a big difference between 7 or 8 new homes, and a housing development with hundreds or thousands of homes. And I'll bet those homes are selling for a nice price, to people who appreciate the neighborhood they are moving into.
Sensible development makes sense to me.
Concurrency for new development has been shown to cost 150% of new tax revenue from the units sold. Unless the new development is in a CRA district in which case all additional tax revenue goes to the CRA and all the concurrency is a new large drain on our general fund.
Local news last night featured two WPB 30 story excessively dense developments that may be left unfinished after the builder got variances for these oversize monstrosities.
We bought here for the small town beach feel of Lake Worth.
Can any politician resist the developers' siren songs of future prosperity?
What is your context for the word concurrency? The word concurrent has a common enough to meaning, but concurrency? Are you using the word in the Computer Programming context? Please explain!
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