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A RATON NEWS 24 Pages Vol. 13, No. 151 Sunday, Nov. 17, 1968 utr RASTOR tea Raton j- • Park building set to move into high gear Tunnel permit approved by road dept. Construction should get un- derway on a full scale this week at Spanish River Park. Last remaining obstacle, a permit from the State Road Department to install the pedestrian tunnel under A-l-A was delivered to the city late Friday, The city previously had sign- ed a contract for the improve- ments with low bidder Andrew F. Kay conditional upon re- Stake in foreground marks centerline of pedestrian tunnel New entrance to Florida Atlantic University lap-covered signs at the old entrance indicate ceipt of SRD approval. Kay's between Spanish River Park's parking lot and beach. Con- campus is now in use. The new roadway is that eastbound traffic soon will be barred from making left turns at the old road. contract covers the tunnel, struction office was moved to the site as the city prepared to west of the former Gladee Road entrance. Bur- restroom facilities, lookout to- push improvement program at the site. wer and a number of other improvements in the parcel now Area near hospital owned by the city. 9 With apackage priceof$194,- 'Richocketing'mail 600, he was the low bidder on the job. However, the permit to make Medical zoning is approved the cut in A^l-A hit a snag bounces around P.O. when the state asked that the Boca Raton will have a med- part of the five year capital the rest R-l. We're basically city and the (county co-sign By SANDY WESLEY cerned about this last minute ical center zone, butDrs. James improvement plan which would a R-l city and we don't have the agreement] County offici- surge of recrudescence because Moseley and Jack Reid may not be five years from now. enough R-l left." ; als balked at Being a party to Friends, are you arecrudes- at least 9.7 billion pieces of be able to get into the act. Tunison Palms residents, Mrs. Cook added, "the pres- the agreement for what is ex- scent or ricochet Christmas mail will be delivered in De- Planning and Zoning Board who favor Young's proposals, sure is on to rezone, especial- • clusively a city project. card mailer? Do you get the cember and the poor postman members, after listening to the objected strongly to rezoning ly in our area." Mrs. Cook said City Attorney \Malcolm An- "doing one better than the just can't take anymore than approvals of residents of Tuni- R-l-D property, which they say she didn't think the city could derson and Engineer Jean Van- Jones feeling around Christ- that. son Palms, vote$ to recom- is scarce now. However Tuni- effectively plan for needs o' sant stepped up the city's plea mas card time? Recrudescence is bad enough, mend to the citt council its son Palms folks would like to the hospital by setting aside for action Friday as Kay moved If so, stop and consider what but if you're a ricochet mailer new medical center zone ordi- see all the land north of the land for 1980. \ his construction office onto the the urge to recrudescence and that's really bad; You're the nance which lyvoula restrict hos- Board chairman Robert Rod-) park site and began '.eying out hospital including the Hunter ricochet do.r- to the po<-r post-*- kind who keeps mailinv g lists pital land near the hospital to Moss tract already slated for gerstold residents that the piar- the buildings and u-iproo- mun, 5 which dates -back to last De- medical oriented offices,, / apartments, placed in the MC was. not basically their propos- ments. According to Postmaster Ce-. cember and 25"'per cent of Board members eliminated, zone. al but one which they drew up Late Friday, the state waiv- cile Roseke,; the recrudescent 'your friends have ntoved else- at the suggestion of Pat/Galvin, According to Mrs. Russell after talking to experts at Boca ed the requirement that the mailer is the one who waits where but you either don't know realtor, provisions for one and Harrison, "Thirty-five acres Raton Community Hospital. county participate In the agree- until he receives a card from it or haven't had time to keep two family homes in the ordi- is a lot of land. Why not di- However, Tunison Palms ment. The permit was dis- another party then goes about your address book up to date. nance and added the words vide the land at Boca Hall?" residents are not convinced that patched by airline and was picfc- the task of returning the greet- Not only that but you put first "to hospital, convalescent and she asked, labeling Young's the hospital needs now nor ever (Continued on page 2A) ing. As if having that one bad class postage on your mail,, nursing homes" to its acces- plan the "lesser of two evils. will need 35 acres of land, habit isn't enough, the recru- Shame on you. sory uses permitted clause at W. A. Cook told board mem- especially land presently zoned descent card mailer also is the Oh your mail finally does the request of Tunison Palms bers that he's not sure he for single family homes. 1insid^th^3 NEVVS one who, it's rumored, wants reach its destination, after residents. sees the need for 35 acres of Cook asked the members if to ' 'do one better than the Jones- skipping from one address to Residents feared that the ac- medical complexes., the hospital officials could es." another, but think of that poor cessory uses clause would al- "You've speculated about state their own needs. "Every- Ann Landers Page 2B So he not only returns more postman who has had to de- low someone to open a beauty what's happened in other one's worrying about the needs Calendar 4B elegant cards than those receiv- liver, re-deliver and deliver shop, floral shop or barber shop areas," he said. "We may need of the hospital," he said, "but Classifieds 10-11B ed but also will "affix excess" • again that card. outside of the hospital and con- another hospital in another area it seems to me that the hospital Editorials 4A postage. Thus the card has more And to top it all off, your card, valescent homes, although some day. To provide so much people aren't really concerned Public Notices 9B than one delivery life and is board members assured them land in one location is poor about their needs, otherwise Real Estate 5-7-8B "recrudescent" or as Webster when it finally does reach it's says, "breaking out afresh." destination has all the seeds of the term "accessory" means planning and a violation of ba- they'd: be at this meeting." Sports 10-11A a classic case of, you guessed basically that the uses would sic logic. I'd like to see 15 Board voted to postpone its Travel 8A Although the excess postage be restricted to in the hospitals. acres but nothing more. Leave (Continued on Page 2A) Women's News 1-2-3-4B is appreciated, Roseke is con- (Continued on Page 2A) Board members also placed a 150 foot height limitation on the hospital building at the request of Tunison Palms res- Children's idents. The residents object- ed to the no height restric- tion clause which they said would mean the hospital could go to 50 stories. Book Medical center ordinance out of the way, next issue was what land should be rezoned MC? Week Although board members and >* Tunison Palm residents were for a while riding peacefully on the same track at the men- tion of what should be MC the residents got off the track and went their own way. Board members, who say that they talked to hospital officials and experts in the field, put forth an MC zone plan which would include all of the land presently zoned R-3 and R-4 and R-5 around the hospital This is Children's Book Week at the Boca Raton Public but not slated for apartments Library. Highlight of the week-long observance will, be an plus all of the land zoned R- "open house" Wednesday for children up to age 12. The 1-D on both sides of Meadows event, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. will be hosted by children. New road from Northwest Ninth children's books will be on display throughout the week court to Northwest 12th avenue and will be charged on the final day of the observance. — 35 acres. Walter Young, planning di- rector, has six alternate pro- posals to the plan. His alter- nates limit MC zone to any- where from eight to 15 acreso Young listed several reasons for not approving of the boards' plan one of which is that the road system presently in ex- istence in the area will not carry the traffic load and no plans for remedying the situation are in existence until the second SsiiS! iiiSi Nov. 13- 16, 1968 Hi Lo Rain Wed. 63 40 0 Thurs. 72 45 0 Fri. 80 67 0 Rai-.fnonni RD 73 n 2A BOCA RATON NEWS Sunday, Nov. 17, 1968 Coffee Club to YOU CAN LEARN THE hear Byrne Medical zone wins approval EASY, AND FAST WAY TO The first Chamber of (Continued from Page 1) previously zoned for hospital of section 25-60 and 70 of the Commerce coffee club use had already been slated by ordinance until Nov.

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