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Past WBCC Accomplishments

The Council was instrumental in:

  • Opening Eagles Landing Middle School to help alleviate severe overcrowding at Loggers Run Middle School
  • Scrapping plans for a garbage dump and incinerator at the southwestern edge of West Boca
  • Building a hospital and medical complex in West Boca
  • Preventing the building of an airport in West Boca
  • Extending Palmetto Park Road to State Road 7 via what would become the Fran Reich Bridge over the Turnpike
  • Extending SW 18th St. to State Road 7
  • Working with the county to convert Southwinds to a public golf course
  • Opposing over-commercialization in residential areas
  • Upgrading county ordinances for improved living facilities
  • widening Glades Road
  • Convincing the USPS to open additional postal facilities in West Boca
  • Adding new sheriff and fire stations, and personnel to staff them
  • Working with the county to eliminate sewage odor
  • Establishing the Tattoo Removal Program to reduce gang influence
  • Rejecting a second mall on Glades Road west of Town Center
  • Improving Palm Tran service
  • Derailing the proposed Bullet Train
  • Implementing comprehensive land-use study
  • Electing rather than appointing Board members of the Solid Waste Authority
  • Installing numerous traffic lights at dangerous intersections throughout West Boca
  • Banning “cars for sale” in open spaces along State Road 7
  • Advancing the “use it or lose it” concept for zoning
  • Working with the county to strengthen the sign code and its enforcement
  • Advising school authorities on new school locations in West Boca
  • Supporting concurrency in school planning to alleviate overcrowding
  • Fighting for schools based on equal educational opportunities
  • Saving the revenue-generating school ad sign program
  • Sending school buses inside gated communities to pick up students
  • Building the new library on 441
  • Adding new attractions in South County Regional Park such as the Amphitheater and the dog park
  • Changing the name of Oriole Country Road to Judge Winikoff Boulevard
  • Leading the 10-year fight to stop West Broward thoroughfares from being routed through West Boca

                                        


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