The Red area on the attached map is the total forest. Blue is the City of Boynton's parcels that the developer, Mizner Global LLC, needs to build their unneeded apartment project. Email the Boynton commission to say NO to selling the city parcels to this developer or any developer! This parcel is full of gopher tortoises, raptor birds including bald eagles, opossums, raccoons, bunnies, foxes, and indigo snakes have all been seen there along with many, many more different types of forest animals. SAVE THE PROTECTED ANIMALS! SAVE THE FOREST! 

The City of Boynton Beach Commissioners want to sell the publicly-owned forest near Nickels Blvd to a developer to build apartments. It is just west of the mall on the north side of Old Boynton Road. This forest is about 16 acres - the city owns 7 parcels in the area, but it is the ~7 acre parcel we are most worried about now. It was originally deeded over to the city to be for public purposes - it belongs to ALL of us. Every resident in the City of Boynton Beach is an owner of this forest. #SaveBoyntonsForest 

We have less than 1 week to save this forest and all of its animals: June 3rd at 6:00 pm is the 2nd hearing by the city commission to decide the fate of OUR forest. How to help: 

1) Follow us on Facebook (@Save Boynton Forest), add your pictures of the animals you've seen there, and share our posts on all your social media. 2) Encourage all of your friends, family, coworkers, church friends, social group friends, team members, neighbors - all over the city, county, state, country, world - to share this petition and send a short email to the commissioners. Come to the June 3rd city commission meeting, 100 E. Ocean Ave. at 6:00pm, (wear green or white) and say "No selling OUR forest to developers for more unnecessary apartment buildings. This forest belongs to us all, as do the innocent animals living there. Do NOT sell our forest to developers." 3) Send 1 short email to the city commissioners and the city manager, and include the county commissioners:

sheltonr@bbfl.us  Mayor, Rebecca Shelton

hayw@bbfl.us  Vice Mayor, Woodrow Hay

kelleya@bbfl.us  Commissioner, Aimee Kelley

cruza@bbfl.us  Commissioner, Angela Cruz

turkint@bbfl.us  Commissioner, Thomas Turkin

duggerd@bbfl.us  City Manager, Dan Dugger

You can also include the Palm Beach County (PBC) Commissioners as well in the 1 email above. This forest sits in county property, although it belongs to the city. This issue will also be coming in front of the county commissioners too – the developer will be going to them as well to move forward on the project. The county commissioners need to be convinced to say NO. If you know anyone in the COBWRA group, please encourage them to send messages and share too. They are currently fighting a battle against overdevelopment too, so they are fully aware of the need to step up and work together on this issue. 3 commissioners represent Boynton Beach: Weiss, Woodward, and Powell. All 3 represent parts of our city.

mmarino@pbc.gov  PBC Mayor, Maria Marino

sbaxter@pbc.gov  PBC Vice Mayor, Sara Baxter

gweiss@pbc.gov  D2 Commissioner, Gregg Weiss – the forest is in his district!

jflores@pbc.gov  D3 Commissioner, Joel Flores

mwoodward@pbc.gov  D4 Commissioner, Marcie Woodward

msachs@pbc.gov  D5 Commissioner, Maria Sachs

bpowell@pbc.gov  D7 Commissioner, Bobby Powell

Emails to the city commission need to focus on “Do NOT sell the city-owned parcels to the developer.  Save the protected animals and the forest for public use.  The Nickels Blvd forest is the last pristine forest in the city.  This forest belongs to ALL OF US.  Save this forest for the animals and our future.  Thank you for voting NO to destructive development.”

Emails to the Palm Beach County commission need to focus on “Do NOT change the zoning of the forest parcels to a more intensive use to allow apartments.  Change the zoning to a nature preserve.  Deny all building permits.  Keep the forest a forest.  Thank you for voting NO to destructive development.  This forest belongs to ALL OF US.”   (The Palm Beach County Commissioner’s meeting is also on June 3rd, with public speaking at 2 pm, on the 6th floor of the Governmental Center at 301 Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach – park in Banyan garage).

(Thanks to Boca Signworks who donated signs for our cause!)