Follow the money in Boca Raton

The people who most enjoy the new downtown Boca are the developers and the politicians who get support from those developers. Two years ago, running almost unopposed, the mayor raised over $100,000. In the 2020 election, for one city council seat, over $50,000 was raised. Which raises the question: What do these donors want from the city?

Development in downtown Boca is under a special ordinance and that ordinance requires all buildings to either have an element of Worth Avenue or Mizner. Look at the building that went up behind the post office — it has neither.

Given free reign, they would knock down the Mizner Amphitheater and the Royal Palm shops, put up 50-story skyscrapers and turn downtown Boca into the next Sunny Isles. While the city council passes resolutions to fine you for littering a mask, the major questions confronting Boca go unresolved.

Scott Shabot, Boca Raton