Friday, March 29, 2024

Loxahatchee Groves

LGWCD Continues Plan To Transfer Roads And Trails

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Board of Supervisors approved motions Monday to move forward with bills to send to the state legislature that would make its roads public rights of way, thereby enabling it to transfer them to...

Lox Council Begins Plan To Fight Minto West Development

Members of the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council took steps Tuesday to oppose the development of Minto West, formerly Callery-Judge Grove. Council members said Minto West’s developers had been cherry-picking communities within a 5-mile radius to compare its proposed 6,500-home development...

LGWCD Welcomes Long-Awaited Tractor/Mower

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District recently purchased a new tractor/mower with a long-reach arm capable of mowing down to the water’s edge of deep canal banks, as well as hedging trees along overgrown roads. Shown here are Councilman...

Groves Council Gives Preliminary OK To Code Amendments

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council gave preliminary approval Nov. 5 to ordinances designed to fix issues that town staff and committees had found in the town’s Uniform Land Development Code. Planning Consultant Jim Fleischmann said staff members wrote the proposed...

Lox Council OKs Commercial Plans At Southern And B

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council granted preliminary approval to long-anticipated zoning changes to commercial use for two properties at the northern corners of Southern Blvd. and B Road on Tuesday. The parcels are the 21.73-acre site at the northwest corner...

Groves Council Considering Bills For Roads, Trails

In a workshop Tuesday, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council agreed to consider two local bills for the state legislature’s approval. One would let the Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District turn over ownership of roads to the town, while the...

College Sets Aside $4 Million For Work On Groves Campus

The Palm Beach State College Board of Trustees voted last week to spend up to $4 million for architectural design, infrastructure and site work on the college’s long-planned fifth campus in Loxahatchee Groves. “That will get us through the design...

LGWCD Board Gives Thumbs Up To Stephen Yohe

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Board of Supervisors gave generally glowing reviews Monday to District Administrator Stephen Yohe for his first six months on the job. Yohe was hired as district administrator in February, replacing longtime District Administrator Clete...

Developers At Southern And B Plan Improvements

The Loxahatchee Groves Water Control District Board of Supervisors reviewed the obligations of developers at the northern corners of B Road and Southern Blvd. Monday, including B Road improvements. Developers said that they would pay for the improvements but asked...

Golf Carts On Lox Roads Wins First Council Approval

In a split decision Oct. 1, the Loxahatchee Groves Town Council approved the preliminary reading of an ordinance that would allow people with valid driver’s licenses or learner’s permits to operate golf carts on designated town roads. The ordinance will...

Tires Dumped In The Middle Of Lox Groves Road

OCT. 6 — A resident of D Road called the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office’s Acreage/Loxahatchee substation last Sunday regarding an environmental crime. According to a PBSO report, the resident arrived home at approximately 8:10 p.m. and discovered that...

Groves Council Starts Over On Home Business Ordinance

The Loxahatchee Groves Town Council scrapped an ordinance Tuesday that would have changed the town’s Unified Land Development Code to allow residential enterprises as a conditional use, opting instead to look into other alternatives. The council and town staff had...

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ITID Re-Opens Nicole Hornstein Equestrian Park

On Saturday, March 9, the Indian Trail Improvement District held a grand re-opening ceremony for the district’s Nicole Hornstein...