Video: New Lake Worth resident says, "I Love Lake Worth" (and a short message to those few negative realtors in our City)

Realtors and the real estate business in Lake Worth are/is very busy these days and anyone who's talked to a realtor knows how true that is. However, there are a couple realtors in the City saying things like homeowner so-and-so "can't wait to get out of here" and you-know-who "thinks Lake Worth is going downhill" and so it goes. This talk is only coming from a few realtors and in no way represents our fine group of real estate professionals here. A large majority of realtors are optimistic about the City as well they should be.

The claims by homeowner so-and-so and you-know-who may or may not be true but think you, the realtor, should concentrate on selling that person's house as quick as you can so we can get new, positive residents to move into the City. You'll hear one of these positive, uplifiting residents and what she had to say at the City Commission meeting on 12/8/15 vis-à-vis the re-zoning of the historic Gulf Stream hotel to move that project forward. [Update: The zoning change was approved at second reading on 1/5/16.]

Any homeowner can be bitter about anything at any given time. It could be a contentious code complaint or a neighbor dispute. Or maybe the homeowner was severely affected by the Great Recession or a City election didn't go the way they wanted or maybe they were just having a really terrible day. Who knows.

In the 28:22 long video (at the end of this post) of public comment you'll hear residents both in support and opposed to the re-zoning of this property:

The white arrow is pointing to a tiny white dot: that is the property subject to the re-zoning request.

However, what I would like you to concentrate on is what a resident has to say at the 3:40 mark to the 5:50 mark. She recently purchased a home in Lake Worth and she says, "I Love Lake Worth". You get the sense she's traveled a lot and seen many places; she never expected to buy a home in Lake Worth but she did because she sees so much "potential" here. 

She references the South Palm Park neighborhood in the City and talks about how historic preservation can revitalize a city having seen it happen with her own eyes—twice. You see, old buildings have the "potential" to do great things when the public policy is in place, the political will is there to make it happen, and residents put aside what's happened in the past to focus on the future. 

At the 10:45 mark Mayor Pam Triolo reads into the record the comments from those that either couldn't attend the meeting or weren't interested in speaking at the podium. That continues until the end of the video. At the 16:00 mark to 18:00 the mayor reads the comments by Yours Truly into the record.

So, without further ado, the video and pay special attention to the 3:40 mark to the 5:50 mark where a new City resident says, "I Love Lake Worth":