Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 Workshop Meeting Compass Community Center 6 p.m. (4/07)

If you can make it tonight, and especially if you live in the area west of City Hall and then north and south of there, you should come to this meeting to hear about the NSP2 $23 million grant program.  This is an ambitious program that has the potential to substantially improve an area of the city in need of stabilization.  There are those that get uncomfortable with that, namely Commissioners Jo Ann Golden and Cara Jennings.  Commissioner Golden questioned the CRA about going for the grant saying that we know how to spend money better than the Federal government, then she used it as an accomplishment in her campaign literature.  There are communities that would fall all over themselves about the prospect of what this money would do for their housing stock and residential neighborhoods..

If you can't make this meeting or are more interested in historic preservation, you can take in the Planning and Zoning Board meeting.  They will be talking about possible separation of the functions of the board - Planning and Zoning pealed away from Historic Preservation duties.  Former PZHRPB Chairman Frank Palen and author of the city's historic preservation code will be doing a Power Point presentation that explores the nitty grtty of local historic preservation and where Lake Worth should fit in to the bigger picture.  The PZHRPB meeting is at the same time as the NSP2 meeting and is in the Commission Chambers.