Past WBCC Accomplishments

The Council was instrumental in:

• Opening Eagles Landing Middle School to help alleviate severe overcrowding at Loggers Run Middle School

• Scrapping plans for a garbage dump and incinerator at the southwestern edge of West Boca

• Building a hospital and medical complex in West Boca

• Preventing the building of an airport in West Boca

• Extending Palmetto Park Road to State Road 7 via what would become the Fran Reich Bridge over the Turnpike

• Extending SW 18th St. to State Road 7

• Working with the county to convert Southwinds to a public golf course

• Opposing over-commercialization in residential areas

• Upgrading county ordinances for improved living facilities

• widening Glades Road

• Convincing the USPS to open additional postal facilities in West Boca

• Adding new sheriff and fire stations, and personnel to staff them

• Working with the county to eliminate sewage odor

• Establishing the Tattoo Removal Program to reduce gang influence

• Rejecting a second mall on Glades Road west of Town Center

• Improving Palm Tran service

• Derailing the proposed Bullet Train

• Implementing comprehensive land-use study

• Electing rather than appointing Board members of the Solid Waste Authority

• Installing numerous traffic lights at dangerous intersections throughout West Boca

• Banning “cars for sale” in open spaces along State Road 7

• Advancing the “use it or lose it” concept for zoning

• Working with the county to strengthen the sign code and its enforcement

• Advising school authorities on new school locations in West Boca

• Supporting concurrency in school planning to alleviate overcrowding

• Fighting for schools based on equal educational opportunities

• Saving the revenue-generating school ad sign program

• Sending school buses inside gated communities to pick up students

• Building the new library on 441

• Adding new attractions in South County Regional Park such as the Amphitheater and the dog park

• Changing the name of Oriole Country Road to Judge Winikoff Boulevard

• Leading the 10-year fight to stop West Broward thoroughfares from being routed through West Boca