On 12 Jan, a community input meeting was held at Jaco Pastorius Community Center. The focus was the Twin Lakes Improvement Project. A representative from Broward County opened the presentation, touting a plan that cost $250k to create; the project will cost $6 mil. $2 mil of that is for drainage. Construction is set to begin in about a year and will take 2 years to complete. Key infrastructure elements include new sanitary sewers, new roadways, and street lights. New five feet wide sidewalks will replace 13,483 feet of current four-foot ones and add 10,890 feet of new sidewalk. The county will install conduit for the street lights so all wiring will be buried; FPL is providing the lights at no cost to the neighborhood, and they will likely be concrete.
About 50 residents attended, and there was a general atmosphere of tension between neighbors and toward city staff. The hot button issues were placement of the street lights and the addition of an entrance connecting the neighborhood to Royal Palm Park. A number of residents expressed derision at the apartment complex located where the park entrance will be.
Several candidates in the upcoming commission election were out in full force, including those not normally seen at community input meetings.
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