That would have reserved space for eight lanes on Northlake from the Beeline Highway to Military Trail. 13, had voted 8-1 in favor of the eight-lane section for 1.5 miles from the Gardens’ Sandhill Crane Golf Club to State Road 7 next to the Ibis Golf & Country Club.Ĭounty commissioners killed a similar move in November on 3 miles of eastern Northlake. The advisory county Planning Commission, which reviewed the proposal on Jan. The map is used to put property owners on notice that their land may be needed one day to widen the road.Ĭommissioner Sara Baxter, whose district includes western communities that depend on Northlake to travel east, voted against. Palm Beach County commissioners voted 6-1 to refuse to preserve space for an eight-lane Northlake near the Avenir community on the county’s transportation improvement map.

Residents of the western gated communities in Palm Beach Gardens and West Palm Beach are equally certain an eight-lane road outside their neighborhoods would be a disaster, eliminating slow-down lanes, decorative entryways and lush landscaping to make way for a dangerous speedway. Palm Beach County planners and engineers, girding for construction of thousands of homes, are certain that sometime in the next 10 years traffic will dictate the eight-laning of parts of Northlake Boulevard. 5, 2023, to remove the incorrect information.

The comments were made by Avenir attorney Brian Seymour, not Mr. 3, 2023, incorrectly attributed to Palm Beach Gardens City Attorney Max Lohman comments from the audience at the Jan. CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, the original story published Feb.

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