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A mature tree can resemble an umbrella, with a wider canopy than it is tall.
The delicate, fern-like leaflets provide light shade and the perfect backdrop
for the flowers to shine against. The bark is smooth and gray. Royal poinciana
is deciduous, providing your landscape with cooling shade during the hottest
parts of the year and warming sunshine in the winter. While it’s not sturdy in
storms, judicious pruning can help prevent breakage, and the tree will often
recover quickly after losing limbs.
MEMBERSHIP
It will soon be time to renew your security patrol membership. If you are
already a member, we hope you’ll renew. If you’re not a member, we hope
you’ll join us. Preliminary data from July 2022 (when the patrols began) to
January 2023 shows a 38.33% DECREASE in Type 1 crimes over the same
period the previous year. Type 1 crimes include theft, burglary, assault, rape
and homicide. All police departments are required to report this data. The
FLPD provides this information by neighborhood. We will continue to update
this information over time, but the initial analysis as to the effectiveness of the
security patrol program is very encouraging.

We will now be requiring Association membership to be a Security Patrol
Program member. There will be no increase in the cost of the Security Patrol
program for 2023-2024; it will remain at $450, however the $100 Association
fee will be added to the Security Patrol invoice. If you have already paid the
Association fee of $100, your cost will only be $450. The $100 we collect for
the Association is the reason we have been able to contribute or entirely fund
the many neighborhood improvements we have seen over the past few years,
such as the entry monuments and the speed cushions. We would like to install
license plate readers and ornamental street signs in the future, but we will need Timothy L. Hernandez, AICP, is an urban planner,
more funding to do so. Only about 10% of the approximately 1250 single builder and developer. He is co-founder of New
family homes in the neighborhood are Association members at this time. Urban Communities, a Delray Beach based
development firm specializing in urban infill and
Finally, we still need to someone to help out with: redevelopment and a 30- year resident of Coral
• Keeping and updating the master HOA and Security Patrol databases. Ridge Country Club Estates. He is also an
Adjunct Professor in the University Miami School
• Sending out e-blasts and surveys to our members and neighbors in the of Architecture’s Masters in Real Estate
databases. Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) program.
Current projects include the Pompano Beach
• Maintaining and revising the website.
Fishing Village commercial redevelopment at the
Ideally the person would have experience with Constant Contact and with Pompano Pier (new addition Baresco Mexican
website design and site updating. If you have these skills and would be Restaurant opened a couple weeks ago and Salt
interested in helping make the community better, please reach out! Life and How You Brewin’ are coming soon),

Keep up to date on neighborhood happenings via e-blasts (sign up on our The Centre at Abacoa mixed use development in
website https://crcceassociation.com/) and please understand that they might Jupiter, Atlantic Grove townhomes in downtown
be a bit less frequent for a while until we can replace Michele. Delray Beach, Haney Creek Crossing, a new
residential development in Stuart and the
Thank you! Elizabeth, a new mixed-use project in downtown
Tim Hernandez Stuart. He can be reached via email at
President, CRCCE Community Association timhernandez@bellsouth.net.

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