Loxahatchee Groves Florida Real Estate News
The Administrator of the town of Loxahatchee Groves stated that the most important things on the Loxahatchee Grove town’s agenda for 2010 are:
- The Comprehensive plan being completed
- Land Use Regulations in place
Before that can be accomplished the Loxahatchee Groves town has to settle the law suite that was brought against them by Callery-Judge Grove over the town’s comprehensive plan regarding traffic patterns on Okeechobee Blvd.
Once this is resolved the town of Loxahatchee Groves will be able to finish up their land development regulations.
These regulations will result in more code enforcement that will be brought in through phases. This is the one part of Palm Beach County that does not have a lot of rules and such. Most residents live in Loxahatchee Groves because they want to own their acreage and not be told what to do, what they can have on their property, etc. There is a balance that the town is trying to create.
The Loxahatchee acreage area is one of the last western communities area that allows trucks. There are a lot of nurseries there that depend on trucks moving trees and produce. There are also a lot of home based businesses in this area like plumbers, tree cutters, landscapers and those who even work for companies that use trucks in their day to day operations. They have always been able to keep their trucks on their property. This will be one of the parts of the regulations that will be worked on. If you own a business on your property you need to be involved in the decision making process- show up for the meetings and voice your concerns and do your part to protect your property rights.
Initially as they set the new rules, they will send out code enforcement workers not to cite violations but rather to educate the residents of the new rules. They will give a lot of courtesy notices and time to remove violations. The Loxahatchee Groves Town administrator says he wants to stress compliance rather than inflict punishment.
Another project that is going to take the town of Loxahatchee Groves about 5 more years to complete is the roads. There are a lot of dirt roads and again, many of the residents that moved there want to keep it that way. They ride their horses and off road vehicles along those roads. The town has to take care of the maintenance of those roads now. Big trucks come in and grade the dirt roads. They will add some new kind of material to the dirt roads making it easier to grade and maintain.
It looks like having a newly incorporated town is a lot of work. We wish them well and most of all, we wish all the residents of Loxahatchee Groves a happy new year and that they are happy with any changes made to their community.
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After long meetings and two years of discussing the future of the farmland west of Royal Palm Beach ended with the county commissioners on the advice of their attorney scrapped the 2005 Comprehensive Plan. The State of Florida planners have not yet approved the Sector Plan and now the plan is in court waiting for a judge to decide. The county and the state have different ideas as to how to develop the western area of the county. The state says the county should do more impact studies and research. The county says that by this scrapping of the 2005 plan gives them the chance to start all over again and decide what type of building should go on in the western farmlands.