The orthodox Jewish community in Boca Raton had many speakers, including several rabbis, speak at the Tuesday city council meeting in support of the city to include the Compson Development offer for the final consideration in January. This proposal includes a 26 acre Torah school that needs more space to grow so it would move from Boca Raton to the municipal golf course site. The remainder of the municipal golf course site would be housing built by Compson Development. This offer was below the price offered by GL Homes but councilman Weinroth was clearly the supporter of this proposal and he got the other council members to agree to consider this offer in the final meetings for the golf course sell.
This will be expected to make the final decision much more competitive as there will be an expectation of at least 20 speakers by the Torah academy at the January meeting. These speakers were very impressive in their comments about how important the academy is for the development of good citizens, BUT why would the city want to lose the academy that would move west of the turnpike and no longer be in the city? Several of the speakers were residents outside the city as their address was well west of the turnpike so this movement may reduce their commute but it will not help the city and will actually move their business outside of the city--the opposite of economic development. Expect potentially a hundred speakers at the January meeting supporting this offer for the municipal golf course.
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