Boca Square Civic Association

Boca Square's volunteer CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) assessed our neighborhood's post-Milton condition this morning. Everything looks OK. Interested in being part of CERT? Check it out on the City of Boca Raton website (https://www.myboca.us/2392/CERT). The next training session is in February 2025.

Remember that the Boca Square Civic Association meets this Wednesday, May 11th, at 6:00 p.m. at the Sugar Sand Park Community Center. Hope to see you there!

The Boca Square Civic Association's next meeting is May 11, 2022 - 6:00 p.m. - Sugar Sand Park Community Center.

Our Civic Association was started in 1963 by a neighbor concerned about conditions in Sable Lake. Among other positive things, our objectives include promoting civic betterment for the neighborhood. The best thing is that membership is voluntary and we are NOT, nor do we want to be, a homeowner association.

At the meeting we'll have an officer election and chat about many current topics important to Boca Raton Square: the ALF, iSIP, Camino Real construction, the Lake Worth Drainage District, the neighborhood’s American flag, signage and more!

Thank you to the 99% who secure their trash, refrain from littering and help keep our neighborhood looking nice. Here’s a look at 20 walks’ worth of what the other 1% regularly leaves on our streets and swales.

A retired chemical engineer fed up with an unfulfilled promise by Boca Raton Square's developer and flooding damage to the 9th Avenue bridge started the Boca Raton Square Civic Association in 1963. Among other things, Alexander D. Kolumban and neighbors were upset that Keating of Florida promised a park on the island in Sabal Palm Lake. The lake was excavated starting in 1959. A subsequent island owner tried and failed to rezone it to open a "cabana club" with a bar serving liquor. Two hundred neighbors petitioned to shut it down. Today, the island has a single private home.

If you know any other interesting history about Boca Square, private message me.

Boca Square’s new American flag (on its renovated & straightened flag pole) is back in business in the median on SW 12th Avenue just south of SW 14th Street. Long may she wave! 🇺🇸

Until the late 1990s, the flagpole was in the back yard of 899 W. Camino Real. This was a model home built in 1961 at the original main entrance to Boca Raton Square.

Have you seen the Nextdoor poll on Boca Square’s proposed Assisted Living Facility? Check it out here: https://nextdoor.com/p/yMCsjxfphbMy?utm_source=share&extras=ODYzNjU1NQ%3D%3D

Call to Action -- Share with Your Neighbors -- Make a Positive Impact Today for Future Generations

Nearly 700 households are less than a 10-minute walk from the Trinity Church of God (Rainbow of Love) property. Thousands more are a safe bike ride away. Think about the legacy we can leave future generations if we convince Boca Raton to acquire the property and make it a park. Imagine the pressure such a park could relieve at another beloved pocket park -- Pine Breeze. We can come up with 100 more benefits but let's get down to business instead!

If you support City acquisition of the Trinity/Rainbow property for use as a community pocket/passive park accessible to all age groups and abilities, you have four immediate chances to show you care:

1. Attend the Boca Raton City Council Workshop (Boca Raton City Hall 201 West Palmetto Park Road) on Tuesday November 12 (tomorrow) at 2:00 p.m. and publicly speak in support of the City acquiring the Trinity Church of God property for a park.

2. Attend the City Council Regular Meeting (Boca Raton City Hall 201 West Palmetto Park Road) on Wednesday November 13 at 6:00 p.m. and publicly speak in support of the City acquiring the Trinity Church of God property for a park.

3. Attend BOTH the Workshop and Regular meetings and publicly speak in support of the City acquiring the Trinity Church of God property for a park.

4. If you are unable to attend the meetings - please send a note of support to each member of the City Council. The message can be as simple as stating that you support the City acquiring the Trinity Church of God property for a park.

The emails of our City Council members are:

Mayor Scott Singer [email protected]
Deputy Mayor Jeremy Rodgers [email protected]
City Council Member Monica Mayotte [email protected]
City Council Member Andrea O'Rourke [email protected]
City Council Member Andy Thomson [email protected]

I have heard a lot of support for a new park in Boca Square but to make it happen we must transform our words and thoughts into actions now. Otherwise, I fear we could find ourselves down the road fighting to conserve the property's single family residential zoning designation. In other words, we could end up battling against more densely zoned or multi-family residential (aka condos, townhouses, zero lot-line homes).

Remember, this isn't about us today and it's not just about Boca Square. It's about our entire community, our kids and our grandkids. What can we do for each other and for future generations? How about we build a park?

Last night the City's Parks and Recreation Board voted quickly and unanimously to encourage the City to figure out how to move the Rainbow Community Park concept forward. That’s not a guarantee of creating a park but the board was enthusiastic and supportive because they recognize the value to the community of a park at 1251 SW 15th Avenue.

Please come to the next City Council meeting on Wednesday, November 13th at 6:00 p.m. if you support the idea of the City acquiring this property and developing it into a community park. Bring friends and neighbors. Fill out a speaker card and step up to the microphone during the public requests portion of the meeting. In your five minutes you can say as much or as little as you want in support (or in opposition, if that's where you stand). There's strength in numbers and every resident who speaks on the record about why Boca Raton needs this as a new community park helps move the effort forward.

Your voice counts. Please use it.

We heard news yesterday that a beloved Boca Square institution, Rainbow of Love Preschool, will close permanently on May 31, 2020. The property will then be sold.

The school is a mission of the adjoining church, Trinity Church of God. Trinity’s membership has dwindled to the point where it can no longer sustain itself. The school can only exist if the church exists. The church can only exist with the long-term work and money of deeply dedicated and committed families and individuals.

It's now easier to send Boca Square Civic Association a message.

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If this is a concern for you- you should attend!

Live Meeting Coverage TODAY at 1:30pm
• WEB STREAMING - www.myboca.us/WatchLive
• TV - Comcast - Ch 20 (Boca Raton city limits)
• TV - AT&T U-verse - Ch 99 (PB County)
• TV - Hotwire - Ch 395 (PB County)
• RADIO - 1650am

Hi, All! The quarterly meeting for the Civic Association will be Monday, May 15th at 6:30pm at Sugar Sand Park in the Maple room. All residents are welcome. It is just a forum to discuss any issues you have or want to work on. I will remind you closer to the date.

Thanks!

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Hello Everyone! Everything we post in NextDoor we also post here so you can get it in your FB feed as well.

The meeting tonight was generally deemed a success and we are moving to get all of you more involved. The key message is that we need resources to be able to do things effectively as a community. I am now your President of the Civic Association and we have some new board members coming on deck which we will post up shortly. Brian Stenberg our past President will be our new Treasurer.

We are beginning a membership drive of $25 per household to help us raise funds for the Association. Mayor Haynie was there, she gave a lovely slideshow of Boca 'then and now' which showed how amazing the growth of our city has been and what is on deck to come. She also offered her support and guidance to help us accomplish our goals.

Your involvement in this community is greatly appreciated, and even if you couldn't make it tonight, we still want to hear from you and want you involved. This is only the beginning, we will meet more regularly and we welcome you. We gave out a brochure, and stickers for your cars to show support for Boca Square which I am attaching here. Feel free to download it and send in your contribution- we will give you a sticker with your membership. Please encourage everyone to join, a robust and healthy civic association can get anything done together! You can always message me anytime, about anything, I look forward to working with all of you!!

Hi everyone! Friendly reminder to come on out to Sugar Sand Park tomorrow for our community Civic Association meeting!

6:30 pm in the Maple Room at Sugar Sand Park. The focus of this meeting will be to organize in order to get signage but we will have time to address any other concerns and our own Boca Mayor Susan Haynie will be there!

Please leave the kiddos at home. Best & cant wait to see you all there!!

If you are not involved on NextDoor- we recommend you also follow this group there. you can download the app to your phone or just sign up on nextdoor.com

Civic Association Meeting on January 31st at 6:30 pm at Sugar Sand Park in the Maple Room. Our own Mayor of Boca Raton Susan Haynie will be our guest speaker! See you there!