Plans are being revived for a County Park west of Boynton
Beach and Delray Beach on land donated by GL Homes who has built many
communities in the area. "We have
got a lot of kids here," said Myrna Rosoff, president of the Coalition of
Boynton West Residential Associations, which represents about 40,000
households. "There is no place for the sports. … The west Boynton area is
underserved."
Plans for construction of a $14MM 50-acre park near
Canyon Town Center shopping center were stalled due to budget problems. GL Homes donated due to their effort to build
new neighborhoods on farmlands. The land
starts at the southwest corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard and Acme Dairy Road
in the county’s Agricultural Reserve, west of Boynton Beach and Delray Beach.
Envisioned are sports fields including soccer, flag
football, lacrosse, baseball and softball diamonds. The County plans to spend $500,000 to design
and get permits for proposed Canyon Park for 2015, and they are seeking a way
to find long term funding for the estimated $14MM construction cost. Plans were not accepted for a half-cent sales
tax increase that might generate $110MM for improvements to parks, roads, bridges
and other infrastructure, but they are being discussed again, with the
Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations wanting the County Commission
to let voters decide.
A tuition-free neighborhood charter middle school,
Somerset Canyons Academy, has opened in Boynton on land donated by GL Homes. For information about the school, see http://www.somersetcanyons.com/index.jsp. Somerset Academy includes a series of high
quality K-12 public charter schools throughout Florida, Texas, Nevada and
Washington DC for over 16 years, with high schools ranking among state and
nation’s top schools in US News & World Reports’ 2014 Best High Schools
list and The Daily Beast’s 2014 list of top high schools.
For information about homes in the West Boynton Beach area, contact blog editor MARILYN JACOBS, Realtor with WEICHERT Heath & Joseph in Boynton Beach at 561-638-9818 or marilynfjacobs@gmail.com.
No comments:
Post a Comment