All Blog Posts Tagged 'suit' (19)

By Tim Pallesen

    

Residents have filed a second lawsuit to overturn city approval of the controversial Archstone project on East Palmetto Park Road.

    The lawsuit halts construction of the 378-unit project that was set for this fall after the City Council gave approval on March 11.

The council scheduled executive sessions after its regular meeting to discuss the litigation.

    Three neighbors named as plaintiffs — George O’Rourke, James Wood and Al…

By Tim Pallesen

    

A citizens group has sued  Delray Beach, saying its density approval for Atlantic Crossing violates the vision for Delray to always be “a village by the sea.”

    City commissioners approved 40 housing units per acre for the East Atlantic Avenue project formerly known as Atlantic Plaza II on Dec. 4. The developer still needs site plan approval before construction can begin.

    The lawsuit claims the Dec. 4 vote was inconsistent with the…

By Cheryl Blackerby

Chastened by a losing court fight against a grassroots citizens group, Boca Raton City Council members are moving at warp speed to pass a new ordinance that will prohibit private uses of public beaches and waterfront land.

 “I think we all will join hands in kumbaya and introduce this ordinance,” said Boca Mayor Susan Whelchel as the council unanimously approved the first reading of the new law on Jan. 8.

But not so fast.…

By Tim Pallesen

    A citizens group has sued Delray Beach saying its density approval for Atlantic Plaza II violates the vision for Delray to always be “a village by the sea.”

Update: Citizens group sues city over density approval for Atlantic Plaza II

By Tim Pallesen



    Coastal residents near the proposed Atlantic Plaza II project remain concerned after Delray Beach commissioners narrowly gave developers the OK to build 40 units per acre last…

By Tim Pallesen



The Caron Foundation wants coastal Delray Beach residents to testify how they blocked Caron’s attempt to house recovering addicts and alcoholics near the ocean.

Caron attorney Jim Green told a federal judge in April that trial testimony will reveal a “a hostile and organized community reaction to our attempt to locate in an affluent area near the ocean.”

    Court papers show Caron has listed 72 potential witnesses in its federal…

Letter from Caron to neighbors

By Tim Pallesen



A federal judge has granted a temporary injunction to stop Delray Beach from enforcing its stringent transient housing ordinance against the Caron Foundation.

    U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas stopped short of ordering…

Letter delivered to Seaspray neighbors: Green_Letter%282%29.pdf

(Note: To protect privacy, the name and address has been removed by The Coastal…

By Tim Pallesen   

    

The Caron Foundation can’t sue Delray Beach for denying a Seaspray Avenue sober house because the request hasn’t been officially denied, an attorney for the city argued in court.

    The surprising twist came during an April 16 federal court hearing where the city also argued that Caron can’t claim a loss of income because it hasn’t placed recovering alcoholics and drug addicts into a second house where the city has given approval to…

By Tim Pallesen



    A judge says the Caron Foundation must pay $27,788 to Delray Beach in a public records request for more than 200,000 emails that Caron wants to investigate in its lawsuit against the city.

    Caron wants to review all email communications sent and received by 16 city officials since August 2007 to learn who said what to whom before Delray Beach approved three ordinances to restrict sober housing in February.

    “We’re trying to uncover…

    The owners of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn — the only commercial property in South Palm Beach — have taken the 58-unit motel, restaurant and bar off the market.

    The two-story motel has been in foreclosure since February 2011 and was listed on loopnet.com, a commercial real estate sales website, for a reported $12.95 million. The website has listed it as off the market since Jan. 27.

    PNC Bank is trying to foreclose on a $3.4 million loan. A Palm Beach County circuit…

By Tim O’Meilia

and Steve Plunkett



    Manalapan and South Palm Beach town officials think they may emerge smelling like a rose from a dispute with the city of Lake Worth over payments for the operation of a regional sewer system.

    In August 2010, Lake Worth sued its seven municipal partners in the regional system — including Manalapan, South Palm Beach and Lantana — claiming it was owed $7 million for operation and maintenance of…

By Tim O’Meilia

    

The future of the Palm Beach Oceanfront Inn — which pitted neighbor against neighbor and roiled South Palm Beach politics for four years — is now in the hands of a foreclosure judge.

    The owners of the two-story, 58-unit motel, restaurant and bar have been battling foreclosure since February when PNC Bank filed suit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court to collect on a $3.4 million loan.

    That didn’t prevent the owners, the Paloka family, from suing…

                  The parents charged with hosting an “open house party” crashed by hundreds of beer-toting high school students in the gated Sanctuary enclave ended their day in court with adjudication withheld.

                  Shlomo and Jeannie Rasabi, who pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge, will not have a conviction on their records. Judge Barry M. Cohen assessed court costs of $253 each but no jail time or fine.

                  “Good…

By Angie Francalancia

Leaders in the coastal communities were rejoicing over the recent news that controversial Senate Bill 360 had been declared unconstitutional — a bill they

believed would have opened the door to rampant coastal development and

thousands of additional drivers on A1A.…