”He built this city from its ashes,” said Herbert Griffin, a Florida City resident since Hurricane Andrew who showed up at the polls last month to vote for another term for Wallace.
Wallace feels that experience taught him to survive any tough circumstances by planning ahead.
Currently, he is plotting the future growth of Florida City.
”The project I hold dearest to my heart are the bad areas that I want to redevelop,” Wallace said.
So far, about 2,500 acres have been annexed and the city is looking to take in more than another 2,000 acres, according to City Planner Henry Iler.
The Palm Beach Town Council gave preliminary approval at a special meeting Monday to several proposed zoning amendments.
The decisions, all of which were unanimous, were instructions to Town Attorney John Randolph to return with draft ordinances that will require further council approval. They would: Prevent formula restaurants from opening in commercial zoning districts.
Iler Planning Group drafted the ordinances to aid the Town of Palm Beach. The town was worried that other chain restaurants would follow Starbucks onto the island, the council in 2006 imposed zoning-in-progess rules to block chain restaurants while the town staff refined criteria to define those restaurants.
