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Residents raise safety and transparency concerns about pool hours, demolition dust and Plant Drive ice-rink project
Summary
During public comment residents urged the city to address an always-open community pool used at night, asked whether demolition dust and soil at a Park Drive site have been tested for arsenic and pesticides, and criticized the process that led to demolition and selection of the Plant Drive site for an ice-rink proposal.
Multiple residents used the council's public-comment period to raise safety, health and process concerns tied to neighborhood projects.
Vincent Bellafiori, who identified himself as a Palm Beach Gardens resident, told the council the community pool in his condominium development remains open overnight and said the Palm Beach County Department of Health has jurisdiction over community pools. He said the pool "remains open all night, and there's people in the pool area at all hours swimming and doing drugs and drinking," and asked the city for a contact or solution before someone is harmed. City staff asked him to "communicate with our leisure…
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