City Rushing Action to Start 51St Street Completion
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NES3-PIES BOX 1673. ST AUGUSTH3 FLA BOCA RATON NEWS 32084 Vol. 13, No. 135 Thursday, Oct. 10, 1968 22 Pages City rushing action to start 51st Street Completion >- « 1 i I Ui I l__l I 1_ Palmetto Park Hoad presently" undef* construction; — -j of 1-95 link TTTTnTTTn E-_ seen in9 71 The City of Boca Raton must move swiftly to insure that its Interstate 95 crossing at 51st Addis* Miiner St. will be included in the state's plans. Responding to the latest word from the State Road Depart- Shaded area indicates 30-acre tract on which zoning change has been requested. ment, the City Council Tues- day night instructed the city attorney to prepare a resolu- tion of intent to commit the city to construction of 51st No shopping center planned, St. The street must be com- pleted, or at least under con- struction, by the time engineer- ing is completed on the Boca Raton segment of 1-95. just rezoning sought on tract City officials learned of the urgency of the 51st St. project By JIM RIFENBURG ply asked for the same zoning Planning Director Walter in a meeting Tuesday with SRD for its tract that was recently Young has scheduled the peti- District Engineer Arnold Ra- Bancstock Corp. has no plans tion for a Nov. 21 hearing be- mos. to develop a large shopping allowed on the property across Mayor Harold Maull said it center in the western part of Palmetto Park road from it. fore the Planning and Zoning "All we requested was the Board. is vital that the city move to Boca Raton, according to State The area north of Palmetto get construction of a minimum Sen. Jerry Thomas. same treatment — that our land passable 51st St. from Mili- Fire department demonstrations are being held throughout Thomas said his firm has contiguous to that road be zon- Park road was recently chang- ed for business, too," he said. ed from B2 classification to tary Trail to Federal Highway the week at Boca Raton schools in connection with National asked for zoning changes on RBI. Small businesses come as soon as possible. A Jan. Fire Prevention Week. Activities will end with open house at a 35-acre tract, south of the Bancstock Corporation of 26 deadline has been indicat- portion of Palmetto Park.road America petitioned the Plan- under the B2 and RBI allows both city fire stations. Refreshments will be served from 11 ning and Zoning Board to change large businesses. ed, he said. a.m. to 4 p.m. Poster and essay contest winners will be on now under construction and east Ramos said bids should be of the proposed 1-95 right-of- the 35-acre tract from single Reaction to the story of the. display. family to business classifica- proposed shopping center was sought on the local segment of way, but he knew nothing about tion. The petition was entered quick. Mrs. Edward P.Duganof 1-95 by August, 1969, and the a story in an area newspaper on a standard city form and 75 SW 12th Ave., asked how a road could be open to traffic declaring that a "huge shop- said: "The property will be de- petition could be started to halt in 30 months or less. ping center" would be built veloped for use as a retail the re-zoning efforts. The council indicated hope Move to portables on the tract. shopping center." •' 'We will have three schools that the 51st St. project can be He said Bancstock had sim- in this immediate area," she prepared and paved at a mini- said. ' 'We already have traffic mum cost, possibly with the problems and Palmetto Park work to be handled by city is scheduled today :••",. crews. road is going to add more. We c Parking ordinance certainly don't need the traffic '•""'•'•- No cost estimate was avail- portables and caused the one- a shopping center would cause. able, but Maull indicated it By SANDY WESLEY week delay. Palmetto Park road west is would be necessary to "scrap Students at Addison Mizner The portables will handle four scheduled for completion this School will begin moving into third grade and four fifth grade is shot down again year. It will eventually link (Continued on Page 2A) eight portable classrooms this classes. The classrooms each The seventh revision of an Planning Director Walter up with 1-95 via a cloverleaf afternoon. Will hold 28 students. ordinance to regulate off-street Young said the board approved interchange and is expected to According to Bob Trafford, The temporary classrooms parking flunked before the City the ordinance leaving open the be the main east-west connect- Students to principal at the school, desks were authorized by Palm Beach Council again Tuesday night. possibility of utilizing a park- ing link from the center of and other school supplies were County Board of Public Instruc- The hangup was the possibil- ing area not zoned for apart- the city. brought on campus Wednesday tion until the permanent class- ity that apartment developments ment use because the board Addison. Mizner Elementary have voice and will go into place today. rooms presently under con- could buy lots in adjoining sin- wanted "to avoid an ordinance School is less than three blocks Trafford expects the students struction are completed. gle family residence areas to that would be confiscatory." from Palmetto Park road. The A committee composed of to begin classes in the porta- Trafford expects the perman- use for apartment parking, thus high school and junior high seven students, seven faculty bles Friday, one week later ent classrooms to be completed encroaching on the single fam- He said because of areas school, now under construction, members and three administra- than he predicted two weeks by the beginning of the new year. ily zone, and increasing which were split into more are less than a mile to the tion members has been author- ago. Rain slowed work on the Although the plans had at first the number of apartment units than one zone, side by side, north. ized to study changes in the pol- been to transport the porta- possible on a given plot of land. such restrictions would prohibit icy at Florida Atlantic Univers- bles to other schools in the area Unable to resolve what turn- any effective use of the proper- ity which would give the stu-^ Group housing after the permanent classrooms ed out to be "& complicated, ty. Rally set dents more of a voice in uni- are completed, there is talk now technical matter," the council The controversy, said May- versity affairs. of leaving the temporary build- agreed to a special workshop or Harold Maull, revolves sim- The committee and its duties report planned ings on the campus to take care session, scheduled for 7 p.m. ply around "whether we want on Saturday were announced yesterday by A report on group housing and of the expected influx of stu- Oct. 21, with the Planning and to allow encroachment of park- Dr. Kenneth R. Williams, pres- apartment projects on northeast dents when the season opens Zoning Board and the council ing from multi-family res- ident of the university. 20th street will be made by after the holidays and as IBM meeting together. The meeting idences onto single family Sixty Palm Beach County po- He said he was prompted to Planning Director Walter Young families continue to move in. will be open to the public. zones," litical candidates are expect- form the committee when the at the Planning and Zon- Meanwhile at Boca Ra- F. L. Bradfute, represent- The ordinance spells out re- ed in Boca Raton Saturday aft- board of regents adopted a pol- ing meeting tonight. ton High School, students are ing the Boca Atlantic Home- quirements for off-street park- ernoon for an old fashioned out- icy which states that "Students Young also will report on the expected to begin moving into owners Assn., sought revision ing for business and other prop- door political rally. should have clear and defined abandonment of rights of way portables Monday. Lighting fix- of the eighth draft of the or- erty, and would require buffer The non-partisan rally will means to participate in the for- for utility easements in Boca tures and carpeting was in the dinance, which was presented zones and setbacks between begin with a parade, forming at mulation of institutional policy Villas and arterial routes and process of being installed this Tuesday night as approved by parking lots and single family noon at Royal Palm Plaza. Led affecting academic and student intersections at Palmetto Park week. the Planning and Zoning Board. residence zones. by the Boca Raton High School affairs. road and southwest 12th ave- Principal Gerry Daniels said Band, the parade will move Dr. Williams termed the pol- nue. he thought the portables would westward on Palmetto Park icy a "milestone" in student- Other items for discussion be completed at the end of the road to the Community Center. university relationship. will be committee reports on work day Friday of this week, Location may he changed Both Republican and Demo- "I wish the study to deter- helioports, plot area per unit "We'll be very happy to make cratic candidates will be on hand mine the desireability and feas- for high rise apartments and re- the move," he added. "As of to meet and talk to voters from ibility of establishing a single writing of a parking lot ordi- Wednesday morning our en- 1 to 5 p.m. In case of rain, nance.