An interesting observation from a reader of this blog

"There was a group in Lake Worth that wanted to upzone many of our residential neighborhoods to allow for manufacturing, sale, and promotion of products and services. The group was called the Lake Worth Artists and Cottage Entrepreneurs. Early on Comm. Maier was a supporter of this proposal and maybe still is. 

This upzoning would allow a business to open up right next door to your house in a RESIDENTIAL neighborhood. Traffic would increase, parking will become a problem, and added pressure on the city for services like trash and more demand on already crumbling water lines. The city code enforcement dept. will be tasked with enforcement but they are still trying to restore that dept. It will be pretty much anything goes if this upzoning goes through with little or no enforcement.

This upzoning would impact a vast number of city citizens negatively and definitely also impact the real estate market in a negative way. This is a quality of life issue if there ever was one.

BUT-Ryan Maier is opposed to the GS hotel rezoning for an additional 20 feet of building height that will only impact a few neighbors and greatly benefit the rest of the city and most definitely the downtown corridor. There is no doubt of the public benefit for rezoning the GS hotel.

At the next city meeting someone should bring this point up. Is the upzoning of residential neighborhoods still being considered? If so this would far greatly impact negatively the homeowners in Lake Worth. Much more than an additional 20 feet of building height which is about the width of the goal posts in the NFL"