By Cowboy Way

June 28, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Wow, Did a little digging for you guys… Weiland is a basically a lawn maintenance man. What the heck is he doing running the city? Must be nice to have friends in high places. David Katz helped out with both the Mayor and Weiland’s campaign. Therefore, they owe him. Nice of them to make this public knowledge. David Katz was a former commissioner but times appeared to be a little rough a while back and he took up a position at the auto parts store. Now, with the Mayor and Weiland’s help, Katz may have quite a lucrative position with the brand new CRA. I think they refer to this as the buddy system… No matter what your qualifications are, your buddy will get you in. God Help Boynton Beach.

By Cowboy Way

June 20, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

Didn’t that David Kats guy that was just appointed to the CRA work in an auto parts store before all of this? He’s been seen around the city with Weiland and suddenly he’s a new member of the CRA. What are his qualifications besides the auto parts store? Wow, this whole thing is getting deeper and deeper. We all need to investigate this little partnership further. Sorry about the truck route boys but this whole city looks like it needs to be investigated if ya ask me. See ya’ll around.

By concerned citizen

June 20, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

George, are you related to, or are you employed by a recently appointed city of Boynton Beach commissioner? I have only heard that argument only by him. I think he said ‘they are just using their children’. I also take issue with the fact that, from your argument, you suggest that the city cannot be prosperous unless a truck route run through a residential neighborhood, next to a playground. If that’s the case, the City of Boynton is in a lot more trouble than I thought it was. It’s interesting how much the CRA has done for the economy (the real issue, according to you), and how commissioner Ron Wieland was instrumental in making sure the CRA board, brilliant, dedicated professionals, got disbanded last night.

By Joe Coyote

June 20, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

JCS or RW?
The city’s computers should be used for good and not evil. RW, your time might be best spent serving the public and protecting their interests instead of your own agenda. I am going to make it a point to add my voice to the residents of Lake Boynton Estates whenever and however I can. Do not give in to this corruption. I am with you all and my thoughts are with you.

By Trevor

June 19, 2007 11:24 PM | Link to this

JCS the truck route you are referring to has what daily volume of traffic? Does it have the proposed 1,180 daily trips? Or is it more like 30? Without the actual traffic assessments to compare I do not believe your current argument can be worth much.

By JCS

June 19, 2007 10:50 PM | Link to this

Dean the children and adults in this neighborhood have coexisted with the previous truck route on NW 1ST AVE and all the traffic from the American Legion for twenty years. To date i know of no traffic accidents involving cars or pedestrians.

By Trevor

June 19, 2007 10:35 PM | Link to this

Leah, I would like to see you confront the families, the grieving mothers of children who have been crushed under trucks or killed in automobile accidents. I would be very interested in hearing you explain as they weep over their dead children that they need to stop being complainers and be POSITIVE THINKERS.

By dean

June 19, 2007 5:46 PM | Link to this

JCS,I think you need to reassess the situation. I have lived in Lake Boynton Estates for more than seven years. This past Saturday there was a wonderful picnic in the park, a gathering of home owners, parents and children - good upstanding Americans. The day started off with some light rain and heavy clouds, but soon, as if God was smiling down at us, the clouds parted and the brilliant sun beamed down on all of us, who dared to meet and socialize with their family and friends. I have to drive by the park every day, and what I see is young kids and fathers playing basketball, parents pushing their kids on the swing set, and school kids waiting at the bus stop and walking to school. Your Idea that this truck route will be a benefit to our neighborhood makes no sense. It’s apparent to most of us who live here that this can only bring about slum conditions, and I’m sure that as you reconsider the possible future of our community, you will come to the same conclusion. Also, if you see thugs and punks now, how can this proposed truck route possibly help the situation? God bless you.

By Dean

June 19, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

JCS,I think you need to reassess the situation. I have lived in Lake Boynton Estates for more than seven years. This past Saturday there was a wonderful picnic in the park, a gathering of home owners, parents and children - good upstanding Americans. The day started off with some light rain and heavy clouds, but soon, as if God was smiling down at us, the clouds parted and the brilliant sun beamed down on all of us, who dared to meet and socialize with their family and friends. I have to drive by the park every day, and what I see is young kids and fathers playing basketball, parents pushing their kids on the swing set, and school kids waiting at the bus stop and walking to school. Your Idea that this truck route will be a benefit to our neighborhood makes no sense. It’s apparent to most of us who live here that this can only bring about slum conditions, and I’m sure that as you reconsider the possible future of our community, you will come to the same conclusion. Also, if you see thugs and punks now, how can this proposed truck route possibly help the situation? God bless you.

By Matt

June 19, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

How un-American! This is how the American Revolution started, taxation without representation. Does Mayor Taylor want to watch it’s citizens secede from the city of Boynton? Let’s be clear about three things, - #1. He wants to put a commercial truck route through a residential nieghborhood. #2. He wants the commercial truck route to run next to a playground. #3. It was the city / developer’s study that stated more than 1,200 vehicles a day would traverse this route which is now less than 100. His “stay the course” mentality on this issue, his suggestion that our neighborhood solely bear the cost of his grotesque, idiotic truck route plan, leads me to question, not only his ability to govern as an elected official, but his sanity as a human being. His double taxation idea for our neighborhood also looks, to me, like extortion.

By jonah

June 19, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

Leah, You’re right! This truck route will create many new jobs. We’ll have to transport the children to the hospital somehow, right? And think of the many doctors, nurses and x-ray techs that this nightmare will employ. I mean, wow. I’ve never thought of it that way. I’ve never thought about actually making money from the blood of children. You and the mayor have opened up a whole new way of thinking for me. Maybe after the meeting at city hall tonight, we can get together and go find some baby seals to club? Ludicrous…

By Joe Coyote

June 19, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Taylor is just trying to make himself look good by skirting the issue. The fact of the matter is that the city should have never approved the plans before coming up with an alternate route. The residents don’t want to take any neighbors homes. The mayor is bending over backwards for this developer… Why? Why would the mayor and his supporter want to put a truck route through the heart of a neighborhood and by a park unless they had a vested interest in destroying a community? Its simple logic and common sense, not that I would ever accuse the mayor of having any of that. Just like children and traffic don’t mix.
I think that it’s got to be greed and corruption or incompetence. My heart goes out to all of the residents in Lake Boynton Estates and Leisureville. Keep up the good work!

By By JCS

June 18, 2007 10:25 PM | Link to this

I have lived in Lake Boynton Estates for twenty five years; the neighborhood in the past ten years has turned into rental houses and in the past five years to flip houses for profit. The neighborhood should concentrate on keeping their yards cut and clean, and should take care of their homes and not have ten adults and five kids living in one house. The mayor should concentrate on getting rid of Hibiscus Park it’s full of punks that park their cars at the park and play gangster music! There are very few children that their parents even allow them to go to this park. Please get off the mayors back and the commissioners because they have done a good job in representing the people, we need more business and more jobs in the area and less unkempt eyesores such as some of the houses and this park that is full of thugs and punks!

By Bob W.

June 18, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this

This is just another blatant example of the disdain that our politicians hold for working people and voters. Let’s face it, one rich man’s vote equals that of 1000 average citizens. The politicians these days, on all levels don’t even make a pretense of being responsive to voters. Money talks, and the working man can walk.

By NANCY

June 18, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

One question for LEAH - do you have any children that will be playing at the park that is in question - because I DO ! I’m glad all was safe where you grew up but I don’t want to prove a point safe or unsafe with my child.

By george

June 18, 2007 4:17 PM | Link to this

This issue of the “truck route” is going to far. The real issue is of the economy of our city. I can symathize with the people directly along the route, but I think they are not being realistic either. Thee will not be a steady stream of huge trucks making a terrible racket. They are mainly hiding behind thier children to push the issue. If they would spend the same effort of teaching them to play in their yard or on the sidewalk as they are on posters,etc. this whole matter would be over and the city could begin to prosper again.

By leah

June 18, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

This comment is not meant to create hate but wisdom.I grew up like Mayor Taylor in a very busy area at a corner lot of a busy highway and sreet where huge trucks filled with sugar cane, building blocks and hardware materials were transported.These two roads were thoroughfares for taxis, buses you name it and you know what we never had one accident. Why we were taught by our parents that the road is dangarous, look right and left and right again and then cross the road and that he road is not for playing that our yard is for playing especially when we have big yards that can be blocked and be enjoyed by our kids and their friends.I think we Americans are a complaining people and do not appreciate the blessings that God has given to us. I think it is a blessing that a truck stop can be built in our neighbourhood as it would create employment for people and prosperity for the business people and revenue for the city. Think positively Boynton Estates. Stop being complainers and be POSITIVE THINKERS. thank you

By Jonah

June 18, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this

Using your tyrannical login Mayor, why we don’t just let the citizens of Boynton Beach pay for every Industrial park, while you Mayor Taylor, line your pockets with blood money from with the poor. What can you be thinking? Do you know how absurd you and commissioner Weiland are? This is incompetence at its finest! We now have taxation without representation! The developer must be made to pay for a “Southern Route” if he wants his industrial park to go in. The city is supposed to protect its citizens from this behavior… This is their job… They have failed.

By Vi

June 18, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

Our Commissioners job is to represent the people that voted and put them in office. Weiland said northern route was too tight for truck traffic, but developer told city the building will be made for “smaller Trucks”? Taylor says they could establish a municipal service taxing unit and divide the cost among the homes! The homes have already paid for everything the city does with our tax money!

By Liz

June 18, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

Yup, take a park away from kids, make it unsafe for them to play in the streets, & threaten eminent domain. I wonder if this truck route was going through Weiland’s neighborhood when his kids were younger,would he vote for it? No wonder kids are getting overweight & joining gangs. The neighborhood parks & freedom to play out front of your house are being taken away -all for MONEY!!!

By Sylvia Cohen

June 18, 2007 9:00 AM | Link to this

Let me get this straight. The neighborhood currently has a great, safe park for families. The city wants to route truck traffic by the park and increase traffic. The neighborhood should be willing to pay to reroute the traffic and keep their neighborhood safe. Which is what the have now. They should pay to keep what they have to accommodate a new business. Now let me get this straight…