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City Council CRA — Apr 24, 2024

Plantation, FL City Council CRA April 24, 2024 4 minutes
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Speaker0:07

Good evening and welcome, and a happy Passover to all who are celebrating. The Wednesday, April 24, 2024 City of Plantation CRA meeting is now called to order at 6 p.m. City Clerk, Ms. Beggro, if you can please call the roll. Commissioner Anderson? Here. Commissioner Andreu? Here. Commissioner Fajan? Here. Commissioner Horland? Here. Commissioner Reinstein? Here. City Attorney, as a roll? Here. Thank you. The consent agenda consists of items 1 through 2 and may be approved with one motion. Does any member of the commission wish to pull an item? Hearing none, does any member of the public wish to pull an item? Hearing none. Motion to approve. Second. City Clerk, Ms. Beggro, can you please call the roll? Commissioner Anderson? Yes. Commissioner Andreu? Yes. Commissioner Fajan? Yes. Commissioner Horland? Yes. Commissioner Reinstein? Yes. Thank you. If no further public comments, Mr. Conklin. Apologies. I missed Dennis Conklin, 4581 Northwest 6th Court. I wanted to rehash what was brought up at the last CRA meeting about affordable housing. And at that time, I mentioned about the decoupling of the dollar, really, from a gold standard. And the advisability of not having affordability housing, advisable boards, because you're really a dog chasing your tail on this when you're not going to catch the Fed on this. Today, gold closed at $2,328.80. Back in the day when I was working before going into maritime college, sometimes I worked back line, sometimes I worked front line. When I worked front line, I would still get $10 gold bills. You couldn't redeem them because Franklin Roosevelt made it illegal for Americans to own gold at that time. But you could still get silver from the silver certificates. When I bought my home here 41 years ago, interest rates were about 14 to 17 percent. Second mortgages were at 20 percent. And we managed to get that under control for a number of years. And, in fact, they flattened it to zero, which kind of is bringing on this problem that we're having right now. So, about the affordability, because it's targeted within the CRA, the Gateway 7 District and everything, we've got a monstrosity going up on sunrise. I mean, it looks uglier every day. I just wish they could keep the district commercial because that's what it was developed for. I know because Plantation Park East was instrumental in collecting data for Dr. Kolo when he submitted our report to the county to get us that CRA. And they purposely excluded, although we were kind of led to believe that it would contain Flex Zone 73, neighborhood east of the Turnpike, it only included the commercial district. So, you've kind of turned the whole situation on its head. And, again, I'd like to say that you should have your other name tags up right now. The council meeting doesn't begin for another five or ten minutes. I will yield back my time. Thank you, Mr. Conklin. Any further comments from the public? Hearing no further comments, the CRA is adjourned at 6.04 p.m.