WMG Volume 6 • Issue 2 January 16, 2019
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Big Gift for Residents on
Northwest 30th Court The quiet street will be removed from a proposed redevelopment plan By Sallie James the Wilton Manors city limits. This time the little guy won. Northwest 30th Court is a short Residents of a quiet neighborhood south of Oakland Park Boulevard clapped residential street that runs parallel to the and cheered on January 8th after city south side of Oakland Park Boulevard in commissioners agreed to remove their an area east of Interstate 95 and west of street from a redevelopment plan they Andrews Avenue. Approximately 75 single feared could destroy their peace and family homes line this quiet street, with quiet. The proposed Transit Oriented the homes on the south side of Northwest 30th Court bordering Corridor (TOC) would the Middle River. promote redevelopment “I don’t want the by increasing density and city to initiate a change allowing zoning changes on a residential street that would allow a mix of because I’ve seen uses. that backfire,” said “I’m very happy,” said Commissioner Gary longtime resident Ron Resnick. “I don’t see Burr, who lives in the - Ron Burr the City Commission 600 block of Northwest Resident necessarily protecting 30th Court. “There is a the interests of the huge unknown about what the TOC is going to do. We are a 100 residential character of the neighborhood. percent residential neighborhood. There We haven’t done that.” Resnick said he understood why is no reason we should be part of a TOC residents worried that a future amendment. After months of protests from commission might not look out for their residents, city commissioners finally interests. City Manager Leigh Ann Henderson agreed to carve Northwest 30th Court out of a proposed redevelopment corridor had asked the commission for direction that will extend east on Oakland Park on how to proceed after the city was Boulevard from Interstate 95 to Andrews flooded with complaints from residents Avenue and south on Andrews Avenue to who lived on Northwest 30th Court.
“It’s our neighborhood. Leave it alone.”
A view of Northwest 30th Court. Photo courtesy of Sallie James.
Burr, who attended the Jan. 8th commission meeting, spoke with passion before the commission agreed to remove the street from the redevelopment plan. “We ask that you take NW 30th Court out of the TOC and leave us alone,” Burr said. “We have a nice little community here, a closeknit neighborhood and we don’t want to be destroyed. It’s our neighborhood. Leave it alone.”
In the end, commissioners did. If Wilton Manors wants to add the street back into the TOC plan in the future, it will cost $2,500 in consulting fees and take about 60 days to make revisions. Homeowners had worried that future commercial development could mar the tranquility of their quiet neighborhood. Continued on page 4
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