NPB Gets Praised A 'Model' Town (PBP-Times) 11-4-62VEFILOPMENT AND
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Palm Beach Post -Times, Sunday, Nov. 4, 1962 C-3
North Palm Beach GetsPraised
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NORTH PALM BEACH — Boat- ties Y`ved streets! tart'sn
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Ing, water sports, beaches, fish-
sewers and underground drainage..;.:,..,.
Ing and golf to enjoy all year
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— " ' A marim. and a yacht club, � '; ?: :> < ��:� �! I Few housing developments have bull grass and scrub palms,
long and you dont fight traf- Y t ub, , received as much national re O1
tic to enjoy them .. ,they're all motels, a restaurant and a serv-
;. ,: Lake Worth between the Ear
North Palm Beach.
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� • �� nitron as
rrghi at your doorstep, ice station are to be build at the
:.:, _ River a the Intracoasta
;,, man h
:,, The Christian Science Monitor Waterway, and started dreams
.These advantages are one sell- north end of the development. .. pointed out that the town started a planned residential com
Ing point being used to promote
The No ' : '
rth Palpi Beach Country
with a $125,000 village hall, a city munity of comfortable homes
t h e latest residential section manager, mayor, town council, conveniently close to shopping
opened at North Palm Beach -- Club golf .course is just across tion program is under wwayay S. 1. An extensive police and fire protection before schools, churches, already nat
Yacht Club Point is being de- i
Yacht Club Point. ENTRANCE TO NORTH PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB it had a single resident . " urally endowed with reereatior
aat thea tliz The 'National Assn. of Home °"0;'t"Ifics•
veloped across U. S. 1 from the club, including an Olympic -size Building Journal lauded North So strongly did the Ross brad
present North Palm Beach, right swimming Pel! a tie►v dining 5 /2 78 PeQple 'n, . rix Years Palm Beech promoters for pro. ers believe in "ground plannin
on the shores of Lake Worth. room, a community hqusi, and viding more than just houses. that they actually created a tow
The point will be the site of 217 "People today want more than with all municipal features befor
Bingle - family residences vaitt2d other recreational facilities. V B B a house when they buy — they they ever sold a homesite.
from $25,000 to $100,000 each. Florida's; hast Aline, in want a new and better mode The set aside 10 acres of Ian
general I Boonillig y
Homesites are available on ' the arFlor is 1350 statute miles; rind of living," North Palm Beach valued at $96,000 for , an elemer
water or inland and ark beiti8. , its tidal shoreline a detailed �� offered this "eztia." tart' school. They rebuilt a nearb,
cold a individual families and o * The American Builder praised country club and provided zonln;
contractors. Each site is com- {'ie>asurement, is 8,246 Btatutte NORTH PALM PEACH — From 1970, according to Village iMan- That was the plan of Richard the town as "a model in land to protect property value. Thi
pletely improved with all utile- wiles. ' b0 acres of barren land in ager Albin Olson. planning ... a model of national
E. and Herbert A. Rays, who de- was North Palm Beach.
Reason for the growth? signed significance ... „ Success of
.��6 to 5,278 residents in 1962 is g fined the community. the Ross brothers
"We are,a a new community and Philosophy behind North Palm Florida Opportunity Journal dream Is shown in the s
ti -.e phenomenal growth story of P' k3' -
we have more to offer than other Beach's community planning is called the town "one of the most rocketing Dation of North
th:a Village of North Palm Beach. communities in the area by being told in the citation ob the front of attractive and desirable places, one Palin Beach -- .from 210" Ip_
P . was developed by N o r t h a new community," was Olson's the village's
Palr,n. Beach Properties Inc. Aird g protective covenant could hope to choose as a place 1W to 4,360 In November, 1981,
chartered as a village Aug. opinion. "Another factor may be "A home is not a detached unit in which to live." ti, SAN In 190. qm popu.
g ug• , we have one of the lowest ¢ bot a part of a neighborhood, Wow of praise for North Palm latiaua of 1fhOW to forecast by
1956. In 19533 the National Assn. rates (seven mills) of any � which in turn is part of a town Beach are words of praise for the 1970-
1956,
H ;rote Builders cited it for ex- nisi li in Florida." ' two Ynen who conceived the mod- The Ross Construction Co. wa,
cellenc�a� in community planning, � � and the good quality of the home
The Village of North P a.1 m u,atally depends at least" as much el town — and carried out their formed in 1940, concentrating or
No oth<ir community in Palm Beach had more to offer its resi on its. surroundings as on its de- dreams. residential and other contruc.
Beach :County has enjoyed as dents before the first homesite si!0 and construction. Hence the in 1MRichard E. and Herb- tipn in Fort Lauderdale, Miami
much _-mwth or praise. was sold than many municipatf- vital importance of ground plan- ert A. Rose took aerm 'of and Hollywood.
Max:raum population of 15,000, ties have after years of develop- ring and control of the develop -
set by the physical boundaries ment—a $125,000 village hal.', a ment of neighborhoods."
of the ll'age and the restrictions city manager, a mayor, town The June 30 population of 5,278
on pro; rty use, is foreseen bycouncil, police and fire protection. lig ed in 1,302 houses valued at
$25,334,609. (Value of each house 011,19
averages more than $22,530.)
$194 Rec
At the end of June, W houses utton
were under construction in North
i 00 1 F alm Beach an indication that •
the village is continuing a healthyProgram
' The Village of North P a l m
� !z
Beach became eligible to become
a city when its population reached NORTH PALM BEACH — In ming pool, with related facilities
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:,�•' :..>:<�. �:�:3:. .::w>•:, .:a>:;.:,;.... :.:� .�::�sw:;:>:<?�. Ped ts, with g P� or children,
tional opportunities — the ocean deck areas dressing mum,,. shel-
the 15,000 maximum population
'and beaches — are enough to ters for spectators, furniture, din -
that it will continue to be a vil- athact thousands P '
Te 'K s �s lage. of residents room an expanded
s dents ing d terrace, p ded'',
s<f >�<:from the north the Village of parking, golf course improvements
^:s;< '. ,' ,'•` <�<::: �<�'t���>� "I think the people would pre- P
Y }:"' 3:h;v North Palm Beach is taking the and a new clubhouse. This phase
`a: <:• 1 <: >»>:;::Y:.A:n. <: fer it,"he explained.
Cnterior Lands
=problem Solved
The interior sections of North -
.n Palm Beach County were at
e time almost marginal swamp
ads, in spite of the fact that,
?aking in Florida terms, the
nd was quite high
The problem was basically one
proper drainage — a solvable
oblem, since there was suffi-
mt elevation to provide gravity
iw to the ocean.
One of the many benefits of the
antral and South Florida Flood i
+ntrol District has been to pro- 4
ie this drainage, and to create f
vast tract of high and dry land i
-1 „( ilio co:10.11 nrr,,],• -- now I
extra step. is to cost $415,000.
Providing residents of this The bond debt is to be paid in
booming village with a $1.4 mil- 27 years. Increasing valuation of
lion recreation p ogram. property in the rapidly growing
The program includes a village -village is expected to produce
owned country club, complete wtih more revenue to help retire it, ac -
golf course and a swimming pool cording to Village Manager Albin
meeting Olympic and Pan -Amer- Olson.
ican swimming competition regu-
lations. Assessed valuation of real prop -
Village property owners gave erty within the village will be $70
unqualified support to the pro- million or more by January, 1970,
gram when they voted 570 to Olson predicts.
74 for a bond issue to finance it. In addition to tax money, expect-
I.00king into the future this is ed profit from operation of the
A,hat the village residents ap- golf course and swimming pool
?roved — a dream of a municipal will be used to retire the debt.
°ecreation program: Indications of success of the vil-
Purchase of the North Y a 1 m lage-owned country club are shown
3each Country Club of 145.19 in cash receipts during January,
icres, including its golf course, 1962, first month of municipal op -
rucks and equipment, at a cost eration. They were $22,542, com-
►f $1,01.5,000. This phase already pared with $17,462 in J,,miiary, I
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In July, 1950, the company'P
moved its activities to West Palm g:
Beach and, under various cor-
porate names, developed approxi•;.
mately 12 different subdivisions in
West Palm Beach, Lake Worth k
and Palm Beach County. Total
construction was approximatellra.
3,000 homes.
But the climax of their coq:
1ltruction activities Is North
Palm Beach.
Richard Ross, 48, lives with
his wife and two daughters at
1-185 North Lake Trail, Palm
Beach. He attended Pratt Inti -
tote in Brooklyn, where he ma-
jored in architecture, From 194],
until 1945 he worked for major
construction firms , in the country
as an engineer, assisting in super-
vising construction of air fields,
aircraft plants and other heavy
industrial construction.
A graduate of Vanderbilt Uni-
versity with B. S. and M. S.' de-
grees in chemical engineering,
Herbert Ross, 44, lives with his
wife and five children at 49W
S.W. 80tH St., Miami. After gradu-
ation from Vanderbilt he was em-
ployed by DuPont. He was dig-
charged from the Navy at the
enc. of World War II as a lieu-
tenant commander.
Richard Is a member of We
Urban Land Institute and a di-
rector of the ]dost American
Bank in North Palm Beach.
Herbert is a past president of
the Home builders Assn: of Palm
Beach County and a past national
director of the National Assn. of
Home Builders.
Dickinson Park
Will Be Major
Area Rec Site
Jonathan Dickinson state park,
Lt the extreme northeast corner
d Palm Beach County, is being
leveloped as one of the foremost
outdoor recreation areas of the
county.
The terrain of the park is dif-
erent from that in much of the
ounty. Small, rolling sand dunes
reate the impression of real hills
eyes that are accustomed to
ie flat plains which exist in most
f the county.
A Girl Scout camp, Camp We-
I.ka, is already operating in the
ark. A Boy Scout camp is near -
y on the Loxahatchee River.
The scout camps have a limited
.ember of cabins, and they are
such in demand in the summer
imping season.
However, outdoor camping sites
Ivr alre;1(k. I'rr'n do% ,
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