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Council debates downtown task force while moving forward with master plan RFP
Summary
Boca Raton council members split over creating a downtown civic task force versus relying on a hired planning firm’s public-engagement process; city manager said an RFP for a community master plan is underway while one council member moved to revisit the task force resolution.
Mayor Thompson presided over a lengthy discussion about how the city should gather public input for downtown planning, as council confirmed it will pursue a request for proposals to hire a professional firm to prepare a community master plan and debated a separately proposed civic task force.
City Manager Mr. Sohaney told the council it had directed staff at a workshop to proceed with an RFP to hire a private planning firm and that the RFP timeline gives the council more time to decide how to select a downtown civic task force. "We can open up that to discussion this evening," he said, adding the firm will prepare a…
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