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President’s Message

appy November. Last issue’s (Sept/Oct) column generated a number of
emails. I’ll get to those below. But hopefully everyone has noticed the
Hroundabouts are now landscaped and irrigated. We got this nice email:

“Good morning Coral ridge homeowners association,I thank you and the
association very much for the landscape in the turnabout. It’s a pleasure to walk
on sidewalks on both sides of Bayview Drive. May we continue to build more
sidewalks and bike paths throughout our community. Thank you for your dedication
to our community.”
Here are pictures of the roundabouts. The Royal Poincianas which are the
centerpiece of the landscaping are relatively fast growing trees, according to a
variety of horticultural sources, as much as 5’ per year. Eventually they will form
Tim Hernandez beautiful canopies over Bayview and terminate north-south and east-west vistas at
President
each intersection. The City is expected to install LED uplighting sometime in the next
month or so.

OFFICERS NE 47th Street and Bayview Drive Roundabout
Tim Hernandez
President
Karen Polivka
Vice President

Craig Singer
Treasurer
Vicki Lynch
Secretary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jonathan Brody
Renata Cammarata
Tim Hernandez
Judy High Moving on to the subject of installing more stop signs and potentially closing street
Vicki Lynch access to the neighborhood, it remains a sensitive subject, with many diverse and
Robert Mayo thoughtful opinions. In italics below are excerpts from emails received in response to
the September column on additional traffic calming measures (edited for clarity and
Brian O’Connell names omitted to preserve anonymity):
Paige O’Mahoney
Karen Polivka “My wife and I are residents of the Coral Ridge Country Club Estates neighborhood;
Bruce Quailey we live at the intersection of NE 35th Street and NE 27th Avenue. We just read
Craig Singer the “Presidents Message” in the September issue of the CRCCE magazine. While
Jeff Stich we understand some of the concerns regarding traffic through the neighborhood,
we are steadfast in our disagreement with the idea of road closures, both one way
and two way, in the neighborhood. Not only do the neighborhood residents need
access to these roads and their connections, so too do emergency services vehicles.
If there is no way to provide residents with gates and stickers, then the best course
of action would be to remove the speed cushions in favor of genuine speed humps.
CORAL R DGE Additionally, there should be more of them and they should be higher to force
COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES vehicles to slow down. Finally, we are in favor of as many 4-way stop signs as the
C OMMUNIT Y ASSOCIA TION city and county will allow.

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