The municipal council meeting broke out on the plan to eliminate the monument of the Second World War

A meeting of the Florida municipal council broke out in August while the residents were fighting to save a monument from the Second World War planned for the withdrawal in favor of a redevelopment project.

Boca Raton plans to move forward with the redevelopment of a 30 -acres plot, which would include residential buildings, a new town hall, a hotel and stores in place of Memorial Park, according to Wpec. The residents of Boca Raton, Jon Pearlman and Buffy Tucker, who were among those who spoke against the project in a town hall in August, appeared on Tuesday on “Fox and Friends First” to discuss the question. (Related: the former Fire chief pursues the mayor who dismissed her on the response of forest fires)

“Memorial Park is such an important benchmark for our city, it bears the name of the Veterans of the Second World War,” Pearlman told the co-host of “Fox and Friends First”, Carly Shimkus. “It is a huge park, 17 acres in the city center of our city, which gives us huge open green spaces, so many recreation facilities, there is a tennis center, a baseball field, an incredible children’s field with my children.”

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“The inhabitants of Boca did not know what was going on. At the beginning of the year, the city of Boca Raton presented a project which they called “a redevelopment of the government campus”. And myself, like the rest of the citizens of Boca Raton, I thought they were reorganizing and rebuilt the town hall, “said Pearlman. “But as we did more excavations, he soon came out, they planned to destroy the Memorial Park and put it in the hands of a private developer to build buildings of high height apartments, condos of tall height, high -rise office buildings and a hotel at the top of the commemorative park of the Second World War.”

More than 5,000 inhabitants of Boca Raton signed a petition opposing the plan, calling on the voters to approve any land transfer, WPTV reported.

“I understand that some of you want us to say to arrest today,” said Boca Raton mayor Scott Singer at the controversial meeting of the municipal council on August 26. “I think that for the good of the process, there are people who are not in this sustainable room.

“I have the impression that, at least, they should have – even at this meeting – put the whole project on break. In fact, they did not do it, which was very surprising to me,” said Tucker when Shimkus asked questions about the mayor’s comments. “I think the whole project must be rebuilt, and we have to start again. He must go to the public for a vote. “

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