Editorial: Approve Holiday Inn near Boynton’s Leisureville

If you don't learn from history, you are bound to repeat it. Let's really hope that the days of arbitrary and capricious decisions are over in our community. Let's not fall into other traps such as this and what has gone on here before. See right-hand column for the most recent example of this here. Click title for link and check out this part in this editorial.

Despite those changes, some Leisureville residents still may not be able to claim victory, and may argue that the hotel would end their bucolic existence. Since this commission contains not only some rookies but some relative newcomers to Boynton Beach, let’s revisit a bad decision.
In 1986, by a 3-2 vote, the commission approved the Tradewinds project that Leisureville had opposed. When a commissioner resigned, his successor joined the two dissenters to reject the project. There was no legal reason to do so. To settle the resulting lawsuit, Boynton Beach had to pay nearly $900,000 a year for 20 years. Consider how that money could have been invested in the city.

I remember during the Greater Bay and Sunset property discussions, people actually thought that the city was limited to a payout of $100,000. Not so my chickadees.

By the way, Leisureville is unique, but bucolic it's not. Lake Worth is also unique, but not bucolic either, by the way. Nor should we be.