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Public comment roundup: library praise, calls for expanded recycling, Century Village redistricting and election-law remarks
Summary
During public comment, residents praised the Palm Beach County Library System, urged more recycling and hazardous‑waste services, asked to consolidate Century Village precincts into a single district, raised budget and development complaints, and recited a recent federal executive order on elections; a food‑bank distribution was also announced.
Several commenters used the public‑comment period to address a range of county priorities beyond land use.
Stephanie Dorena told commissioners that the Palm Beach County Library System was instrumental to her family's recovery during the pandemic and credited library programs and services with improving her son's reading; she urged continued support for library programming.
Speakers including Sheila Calderon and Linda Smith (Sierra Club) pressed the county to expand recycling and hazardous‑waste…
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