Pompano Unity Project

I’m from here. Wheres here? The cookie cutter suburbs. The stucco and frame strip malls of the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. Palm Plaza and Lynn Plaza are family in vibe. Nail Salons, Family Restaurants, Shopping all bring a unique vibe to each of these Local Treasures.

Land Banking is what enabled a small group to hold legitimate power heres a Grok report
Deerfield Beach shows clear clusters of vacant and underdeveloped parcels—especially the 0-100s of SW 10th Street and stretches along Dixie Highway.
City-wide, only about 3% of land is vacant. The visible emptiness is heavily concentrated on the Dixie corridor, where legacy land banking and long-held underutilized lots dominate. Some sites once had structures that came down and stayed empty; others were never built out. The net result is the same: notable open parcels in those specific areas amid an otherwise largely built-out city.

What would you build if a Genie gave you the 500 by 70 ft lot on S Tenth street? Max out every square inch of concrete? Keep as community greenspace? Some middle ground?

Kwik Stop is definitely awesome! 24 hr service 10th east of Dixie! Show some support.

BE Hillsboro! Believe it or not here is the ne side of Hillsboro and 19th terrace not so long ago.
Six Doors, Four Stories

Before there was a condo called Be Hillsboro, there was a one-story house from 1946, about 910 square feet. It was small and unremarkable, and it was the kind of place a working person could actually afford.

Then its price started swinging. The lot reportedly sold for $1.125 million in 2005, at the top of the boom. By 2009 or 2010 it changed hands for roughly $430,000. Over the next decade the land was marketed at $1.1 to $1.2 million, and it now carries an assessment above $1 million. Over that stretch the value moved to the dirt, and the house became a formality.

What stands there now is a four-story, six-unit luxury condominium. Six units on about a quarter acre works out to roughly 22 per acre, just under what the zoning allows. Nobody crammed anything in or broke a rule. That's the point.

Six units isn't the story. Multiply it. Small houses, fourplexes and cottages, each with modest rents, a long-time owner and a bit of shade, are being swapped for stacked ownership units priced to recover the cost of the land. Each project is legal and reasonable on its own. Together they add up to a different island, and no one ever voted on that.

So the question isn't whether development is good or bad. It's what housing disappeared, what housing appeared, and at what price. More units don't mean more homes for the people the old buildings sheltered.

That's why the November 3 vote matters. Read the beach-area question on the city's site, check your registration, and vote. Then ask the commission for a cumulative study of housing, traffic and evacuation before the next lot flips.

19 n 5th.
In the development portfolio we have a fenced off lot on the NE corner of 19th ave and 5th street. Am still sussing out proper details. Here is the grok report for now.
What the satellite shows
• Clear concrete foundation remnants of a former house sit on the grassy lot at the northeast corner of NE 19th Ave and NE 5th St.
• Google currently labels that exact spot “510”.
• Immediately east is 1917 NE 5th St (a standing single-family house, built 1973, ~2,500+ sq ft).
• North along NE 19th Ave are higher numbers in the 560s (Ocean Vue townhomes / multi-family).
No public records surface for an active or former 520 NE 19th Ave or 500 NE 19th Ave that match this specific corner lot. Nearby confirmed addresses in the 500s on NE 19th Ave are mostly Ocean Vue townhomes or multi-unit properties farther north (e.g., 523, 549, 560-570, 561, 620 ranges).
Most likely scenarios
1. The house was addressed 510 when it stood (pre-2011). After demolition the address label lingered on the vacant lot in mapping systems, even if the tax-roll situs or folio is now carried differently (common after teardowns).
2. The foundations belong to a parcel that was once larger / combined, and “510” was one of the numbers associated with it.
3. City addressing or postal data still references 510 for that corner even though the structure is gone.

The Number on the Ballot

Right now, a lot like 1963 NE 6th Street comes with a ceiling most people never see. Under the current charter, multifamily property on the beach side has a floor area ratio cap of 0.8 and a 55-foot height limit. On a 10,119-square-foot lot, that works out to roughly 8,000 square feet of building. Voters set those rules in 2002. Two decades of builders have had to fit inside them.

This November, the ceiling goes to a vote. The commission voted 3-2 on August 4 to send the amendments to the November 3 ballot. If voters approve, the floor-area caps for commercial and multifamily property between the Intracoastal and the Atlantic disappear. The height caps and lot-coverage limits stay exactly as they are. City staff have said that removing the floor-area limit cannot raise the height above what the charter allows.

That may be true, and still not settle anything. If a building can't go higher or wider, and nothing limits what goes inside the box, the pressure goes into the box. Supporters say the change enables targeted redevelopment. Opponents say it risks traffic, evacuation and the character of the island, and they want a master plan first. Both sides agree it's consequential.

Picture the next house like the one on 6th Street, the 1948 triplex that sheltered three households on a modest footprint. Its replacement will be built to whatever the rules allow. This vote decides whether those rules keep a limit on how much building fits on a lot.

Every decision that turned that street from bungalows into building sites was made in public, at a meeting or on a ballot, by whoever showed up. This time it's on the ballot, and anyone who lives here gets a vote.

Here's how to be part of it:

• Read the city's official page on the amendments. There are nine separate yes-or-no questions, each decided on its own, and a no vote leaves the current charter in place.

The House at 1963 NE 6th Street

In 1948, someone poured a slab on a wide lot a few blocks from the ocean and raised a small house for a small price. It was one of hundreds, the kind of place built for people who had just come home from a war and wanted a porch, a yard, and a short walk to the sand. It became a triplex, three doors and three electric meters, room for a family and room for the neighbors.

By 1969, the year we walked on the moon, it reportedly changed hands for about $22,500. A working person could see the finish line of that number. Sixteen years later, the price was around $155,000. In 1999, about $200,000. Through all of it, the house did what houses on this island were built to do: it sheltered people who worked nearby and grew old nearby.

For a while it was cared for. Paint stayed fresh through the mid-2000s. Someone watered the yard and fixed the screens. Then the years got quieter. The paint dulled, the roofline sagged, the yard went to seed. Nobody smashed anything. It just aged in place, the way houses do when the land underneath is quietly worth more than the walls above it.

Then the sign went up. The listing said "redevelopment opportunity" and never mentioned the house. Reportedly it asked more than $2 million, settled well under that, and sold last fall. The buyer wasn't a family. It was a company with a number for a name.

Today the lot is empty. Bare ground, a fence, maybe a permit sign soon. Where three households once lived, there will be something taller, shinier, and priced for someone who was never in the story above. The 1969 price has grown more than fifty-fold, and no paycheck grew like that.

Nobody in this story did anything wrong. The owner sold, the buyer bought, and the rules allowed it. That's the unsettling part.

Walk the blocks around it. There's a vacant lot, a house in disrepair, a teardown, a crane. Each is a fair transaction, and together they are a different island

1458 Chicago ave Evacuation is Hilda’s Place drop in and homeless shelter. While hitting the streets from 2008-2012 I survived off many social services. A big shoutout to Cong Beth Emet for the Wednesday soup kitchens. Judaism isnt typically known for street level outreach. It’s was a great blessing to eat under this roof in company of great people.