Excerpt from the Town Crier Article on June 17, 2016
“Argue, a founding member of ALERTS (Acreage Loxahatchee Engaged Residents Taking a Stand) of PBC said she is running because she believes the board needs people who care about protecting and preserving The Acreage lifestyle.
“I have noticed that that doesn’t seem to be taking place. The people managing our money are not necessarily doing it with the right priorities and responsibly,” she said. “Roads and drainage are ultimate priorities. I think that parks are important, but we spend an awful lot of money on parks, and we seem to have priorities kicked down the road with respect to drainage. I don’t think that we are where we need to be with respect to drainage.”
Argue believes that ITID is wasting money with traffic calming, which she feels is ineffective.
“I think that it’s being done a little bit prematurely,” she said. “Development is coming, but I think that there needs to be discussion with the developers in making them pay for whatever traffic calming that we think we need on the roads as a result of their traffic, not the residents having to bear the financial burden of the development that’s coming.”
Argue said she has been involved with ALERTS since its inception.
“I fought against Minto’s approval,” she said. “In particular, we fought and are still fighting against Minto having the use of our roads, our Indian Trail roads, owned, maintained and paid for by the residents, where the county thinks it can just come in and open up these roads and turn them into major thoroughfares. It’s not what our residents thought would happen, and I think that our residents are not very happy about that, and certainly they’re not being compensated in any way.”
She also has problems with extending State Road 7 to Northlake Blvd. without controlling new development.
“That has kind of opened up the ability for the county to… put the traffic on these roads because it’s a direct line to the State Road 7 extension,” she said. “I don’t think there is enough resistance or trying to find other solutions.””
