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Past 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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