More commonly but with less fanfare, one community or another in West Boca will contact us about a problem they have but cannot solve on their own.

 

For example, parents in Timbers of Boca were concerned about school buses stopping on busy Lyons Road to pick up their children at a dangerous location just where the road curves sharply. Timbers President Julia Diaz asked the Council if we could help. We approached school officials about this issue. School buses now enter Timbers of Boca to pick up school-age children.

 

In that same area on the other side of Lyons, the county was planning to put in a sidewalk alongside an accident-prone strip. The Council is working with the county to scrap this project as both unneeded and risky.

 

Residents along Boca Rio Road became very troubled earlier this year about the county’s plan to widen a 1,000-foot stretch of this road north of Palmetto. This project would especially have affected the residents of Oxford Estates, many of whom came to a Council meeting earlier this year to make a compelling case to county road officials who were at that meeting. The Council arranged for these residents to meet with Commissioner Burt Aaronson’s office. The county has now shelved this project.

 

The Lake Worth Drainage District recently dredged a canal along the border of Brentwood, leaving a pile of mud and debris on the right of way that sullied the view of many residents. The Council worked with LWDD to remove the mud and plant grass instead.

 

The Jewish Community Center just east of Glades plans to build new facilities on open land that is adjacent to a number of communities. The Council has worked with the JCC to make sure that its expansion will not adversely affect neighbors of nearby communities.

 

The Council is also working with the Parks Department to build a skateboard park in West Boca to provide skateboarders with a safer alternative to more congested areas like shopping center parking lots.

 

The Council worked hard not long ago on behalf of those who live near the library on 95^th and Glades to stop plans to build an elementary school on adjacent farmland. The Council has long been an advocate of building more schools in West Boca, but this location would have created way too much congestion in the neighborhood.

 

Al Grubow, the Council’s Vice President and longtime President of Boca Chase whose M.O. is the relentless pursuit of solutions, has been especially instrumental in getting the above issues resolved to the satisfaction of many West Boca residents.

 

If you have an issue you would like to get the Council involved in, email us at wbccemail@gmail.com or send us a note to 20423 State Road 7 F-6 – 121, Boca Raton, FL 33498. Better still, come to our open meeting on the second Tuesday night of every month at the Boca Lago Country Club and share your concerns with Council Board members.

 

Alan Kellock