Election Results

City Referendum on waterfront development on city land
- Residents WIN as they prefer to preserve green space instead of the proposed Houston's restaurant.  An effort led by the chamber of commerce to defeat this proposal spent approx $300k to defeat this proposal, so thank you to the many residents who worked the early voting polls daily and the Election Day polls to defeat the chamber's political machine.  At the city council meetings prior to the vote there were many residents who spoke for hours to encourage the city council to support their efforts, but city council refused their pleas and appeared to be supporting the chamber's effort to build another restaurant on the old Wildflower property as the city rezoned the Wildflower land in anticipation of approving the restaurant.

Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District
- Incumbents Earl Starkoff & Dr. Dennis Frisch were defeated by city-backed candidates Erin Wright (Hidden Valley resident) and Craig Ehrnst.  Congratulations to the new commissioners who worked the early voting polling location every day with the support of local firefighters (Erin is married to a firefighter).  In past communications with both new commissioners they have indicated their support for acquiring the Boca Teeca golf property by the District, so it will hopefully not have any impact our residential efforts to bring championship level golf back to the Public.  The beach & park district has a long history of acquiring, improving and operating land that was threatened by development and this is their legislated mandate to serve the residents of the District.  Public access championship golf within the city has not been possible for the last 40+ years, so this is a unique opportunity that should be supported by ALL elected officials.

For more details on city issues, please visit the web site of the largest residential focused organization in the city - www.bocawatch.org