City Commission Conference Meeting on 2025-06-30 1:30 PM - Jun 30, 2025

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What is Troy Liggett presenting about the Central City Advisory Board?

Unknown 0:00

Good afternoon everybody. If you all take your seats.

Unknown 0:09

So this is the day I've been waiting for my whole life. John Herbst now gets to be mayor for the day. Thank you, Dean, for giving me this opportunity. I appreciate it. Meeting adjourned. That's it. No, sorry, I can't do that.

Unknown 0:30

Hope everybody's enjoying our summer so far. Getting ready for the fourth of July?

Unknown 0:44

Yeah. Should be on. Yep. Yep, we're on. We're good.

Unknown 0:54

All right, well once again thank you everybody for coming on in. I appreciate your making the time to come on down and be part of our government. So it's a conference meeting for the city of Fault Lauderdale for Monday, June thirtieth, twenty twenty five. And we will start off we have one neighbor presentation and then we're gonna move on after that to our end of session uh state legislative update. So Troy Liggett, you've got your turn at the mic.

Adam Geller 1:24

Good

Troy Liggett 1:25

gun. Thank you, Commissioner Herps. Vice Chair Herbst, I should say, and members of the Commission, um, thank you for this opportunity. I'm Troy Liggett, a resident of Fort Lauderdale, representing the Middle River Terrace Neighborhood Association, whereas where I'm serving as my fourth term as president. Um I'm a former member and chair of the Central City Redevelopment Advisory Board, commonly known as the CRAB, which is what I'm here to make my presentation about. Um I'm here to ask for your support and action on three issues involving the crab, which is a vi which advises you on the Central City Community Redevelopment Area. As background, the Central City CRA was established in twenty twelve to combat blight across parts of several neighborhoods north of Sunrise Boulevard.

Troy Liggett 2:11

The CRA runs from Lauderdale Manors in District three. To South Middle River, Middle River Terrace and Lake Ridge in District Two, and is important to Point Seti Heights neighborhood in District One. As I mentioned, I have three requests for you. First I ask that you consider extending the three year term of service of the crab. to mirror that of the nine year term of service for the Northwest Progressive Flagler Heights advisory board. The Central City Advisory Board serves three, can serve three one-year terms. Thus, you appoint them every year and they can serve for only three years total. This is unlike almost all other city boards, except for the short-term ones that you appoint for specific reasons.

Troy Liggett 3:02

Um and is very different from the other CRA's board. Ask that you extend the terms for two important reasons. First, there is an extensive learning curve for new advisory board members, and the CRAB spends an inordinate amount of time simply bringing the constant flow of new members up to speed. By the time by the time they figure out what's going on, and I can attest as a former board member, they're gone. And we start over. Second, the CRA has a lifespan of thirty years, with seventeen years remaining. And redevelopment is a long-term task that needs consistency. The lengthy nature of CRA projects is generally longer than the short three-year terms of advisory members. So the board that was involved with creating a project is almost never around to serve for its implementation, which has caused problems.

Troy Liggett 4:01

specifically on the recent Fourth Avenue Streetscape project. Which was designed five years ago and faced many delays. It also has been a significant i problem with the Central Z city rezoning initiative that's underway. There are many reasons why it's taken over a decade for the crowd to endorse the rezoning pro proposal, but I suggest one of the most significant is the constant turnover of the board. We're on our fifth new board. since the initiative began. The constant turnover also directly led to the Crab's recent endorsement of a rezoning plan for parts of the southern part of Middle River Terrace. They passed the plan by an eight to two vote and I suggest that that vote total is incredibly deceiving because six of the eight votes

Troy Liggett 4:53

We're appointed by member we're were by members appointed just a couple of months before the vote. and had never been engaged in the rezoning process before their appointment.