RE: Metering The Cove Parking Lot

Dear Editor:

As to the idea of parking meters in The Cove, as a regular customer of a number of businesses there, it’s a bad idea, period.

You can’t ask people who work there to pay for parking. There are no meters at City Hall.

As for [the resident] who said his taxes went up last year, don’t think for a minute that just because the city commission were to get extra revenue from any source, they would not raise them [taxes] again.

Enough is never enough with government! Remember the utility tax that was supposed to keep taxes from going up too? We all know where that got us.

Steven J. Fabrizio

Deerfield Beach

RE: Metering The Cove Parking Lot

Dear Editor:

I have read with interest the Letter to the Editor by Judy Giller in the April 24 Observer [which goes on to discuss Deerfield beach].

Based on this letter, and on earlier expressions of ideas, I’ve come to respect Ms. Giller’s wishes to enhance her newly chosen home — its economy and quality of life. But it seems to me that, as a newcomer to Deerfield Beach, her sources of information have been limited.

Often the people who are loud and opinionated are those who have something personal to gain from changing what is working. I ask that you continue to keep the entire good of the city and the quality of life of those who live here first and foremost in your mind when listening to those who want changes.

The city can only hope to improve if the city is fiscally responsible AND the residents are treated well.

Adding massive congestion to the beach area is not the answer. In fact, that may well be a death knell to our beach.

Any study of residential housing results in the conclusions that it costs more to a city to service the homes than produced by the tax revenues. If development were to be the helpful solution, let alone the panacea that is suggested, then Ft. Lauderdale and Hallandale Beach would be rolling in tax revenue rather than still having had to raise residential taxes.

Allowing politicians to decide the fate of our precious gem of a barrier island will ensure that it is those who pour money into the election coffers who are the ones to benefit. Having the residents in charge is the only way to be sure our will is done in methods that protect us from that exploitation.

Allowing the beach referenda to be overturned and the codes put back into the hands of politicians will result in, if not sooner than later, our city’s becoming the typical overdeveloped Florida coastal city, and not the attractive familyfriendly city that brought her to Deerfield Beach.

I sincerely hope that she will soon develop a clearer and broader perspective.

David Cohen

Deerfield Beach

Need for Traffic calming

Dear Editor:

We have big trucks-car carriers, dump trucks and semis driving on SE 15th St. between Federal and Dixie Highway because there are NO traffic calming devices.

This is a residential area with a bus stop for children on this street.

There is one “No Trucks” sign on each end that cannot be seen. Please put up more signs and please talk to the Toyota and Honda dealers [and ask them] not to have their carriers use this residential street to unload their deliveries. Most use Federal Highway.

Perhaps our BSO, which has been contacted, can be aware and ticket offenders. I sincerely hope our commissioners can help us. Could someone please respond to this letter, so we know it has been read?

Suzi Daines

Deerfield Beach