This opens up a tremendous new travel option for millions of people who live or work east of Interstate 95. Getting from Clematis Street to downtown Miami could be accomplished with a single train ride. The service could expand into the Treasure Coast. The convenience would not only make mass transit feasible for tens of thousands of new commuters, it may encourage more development near coastal areas, reducing western sprawl.
Minto seems to be taking pains to appease neighbors, said Joanne Davis of 1000 Friends of Florida, a growth-management advocacy group. Davis said she met with a Minto vice president and was impressed with a plan that called for stores and denser housing development in some areas and large-lot homes on other parts of the property.
“It all looked really good to me,” Davis said. “I didn’t have any immediate objection to it, even if they do increase density.”
By dropping big money on a property and then asking for a higher density, Minto is illustrating that Palm Beach County’s housing market is improving, said Jack McCabe, a housing analyst in Deerfield Beach.
“It’s like building a new city,” McCabe said. “They’re going to have to jump through a lot of regulatory and environmental hurdles. Their $51 million investment is going to mushroom into something considerably more.”
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, predicted uneven sales in the months ahead that will be affected by “several market frictions,” including interest rates, loan availability and inventory restrictions.
While new listings increased in Palm Beach County, there is still just a 4.8 months’ supply of homes for sale, down from 8 months during the same time last year. A 6 months’ supply is traditionally considered a good balance between supply and demand.
“It’s becoming more of a sellers’ market,” said Barb Kozlow, president elect of the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches. “Homeowners have more confidence listing their homes for sale realizing buyers are eager to purchase.”
FECI Executive Vice President Jose Gonzalez on Thursday morning told the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization that All Aboard Florida will not hold the local entities to requirements in their easements agreements and will instead include the crossing upgrades in the company’s planned track upgrades.
That was good news for officials who are looking for money to ensure residents relief from 32 additional train horns each day. Palm Beach County has four times the number of residences affected as Miami-Dade County and twice that of Broward County because communities grew up along the railroad.
The requirement that all businesses reapply is because some that have permits were not in compliance with the ordinance. Owners are required to provide a scale drawing of the café area and pay a one-time fee of $4 per square foot of public space they are using.
“We’re going to start fresh with everybody,” said Waters.
“In cases where new maps move a property into a flood zone, homeowners may find it impossible to sell their properties to a new owner who will be shocked with the massive premium increases required to secure a mortgage. This unfair consequence could devastate parts of Florida’s real estate market, stymie Florida’s economic recovery, and diminish the state’s tax base,” Scott’s letter states.
Tourism Development Council Executive Director Glenn Jergensen described the results as “good solid numbers,” during Monday’s TDC board meeting. The increases reflect a healthy 71 percent occupancy rate for the year so far, and growth in the rates hotels charge.And then this:
In addition, the CVB presented its marketing plan for next year. Pesquera outlined several “high-level, informal” goals:The last group was about goals for the rest of the year. Tonight we are likely hear the defeatism present in Commissioner McVoy's' vision for Lake Worth and how if the market said that downtown Lake Worth needs a hotel, there would be a hotel. A good deal of what Lake Worth is now is due to our tourism-based past. What's to say that doesn't hold a part of our future? We can be more than the Ixora and the Silver Lions motels.
• 6 million visitors, up from 5.4 million in 2012.
• 72 percent hotel occupancy.
• 5,000 new full-time jobs.
• $1 billion in taxable sales revenues.
“The competition out there is absolutely fierce,” he said.
On Sept. 16, 1928, the Category 4 storm smashed coastal Palm Beach County, washing out a flimsy 6-foot-high dike around Lake Okeechobee. Between 2,500 and 3,000 people were killed throughout the area.In 2003, the city did a lot of improvements to commemorate the site, however those improvements are showing their age and maintenance is minimal.
With so many bodies, and amid health fears, authorities and searchers buried the dead where they could, burned corpses in massive pyres or dug makeshift mass graves.
At Tamarind and 25th, bodies of black victims were dumped in a 75-foot-long, 20-foot-wide trench at a black paupers’ cemetery.
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