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Boulevard from Ives Dairy Road, and also in West Palm Beach Since I’ve been on the Board there has been an ongoing
on the west edge of the Northwood area. Everything is dialogue with the City and County on how reduce cut-through
possible when pursued. We should definitely close off more traffic by making it more inconvenient for drivers to speed
streets, especially the ones that provide easy access from through our residential streets and using them as alternate
Bayview Drive to US1 and the commercial businesses into our ways to get to and from the Country Club, Cardinal Gibbons,
neighborhood. I believe it would deter drivers from entering or to avoid bridge openings and traffic signals.
our neighborhood altogether.”
I will schedule a meeting with Ben Rogers of the City’s
“My concern is obviously to express street closures on Federal Transportation and Mobility (T&M) Department to explore
Highway as the best way to reduce crime for south Coral closing off some of the road connections to Commercial,
Ridge. I have been told by FLPD that street closures are the Federal and Oakland. This will be a lengthy process as all
number one way to reduce crime. Stiles Corporation closed traffic changes must be approved by the City as well as
two streets that were residential streets that connected from the County. Keep in mind that traffic is like water, if it can’t
Broward to Sunrise. I don’t believe for a second we can’t close
residential streets between Bayview and Federal, especially
when in the past it was the advice of professional traffic
planners—this is not a new issue--it has been discussed for
years. Look at this plan taken from a report many years ago.”
Tim: As is evident from the second email above, this has been
raised before. Sections of NE 26 Avenue and NE 35 Drive were
actually cut off. Longtime CRCCE HOA Board member Jason
Ulbrich was a big proponent off cutting off more access points to
the neighborhood from Oakland Park and Federal Highway.
Similar issues exist north of the Country Club on Federal and
Commercial. Jason and I drove around the neighborhood ten
years ago and counted something like 28 points of vehicular
access into the neighborhood. Cut-through traffic has been
consistently identified as a major community issue.

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