Jon Pearlman, founder of the ‘Save Boca’ campaign, speaks at the July 15, 2025 city council meeting. (Photo: Boca Daily News)
Boca Raton residents who support a growing movement in opposition to the city’s plans for a downtown government campus that will also include large residential and commercial spaces built in partnership with a private developer made their voices heard at a city council meeting Tuesday night.
Motorists in recent weeks have undoubtedly seen the roadside signs advertising “Save Boca,” the name of the campaign against the plan that has now evolved into a formal petition to both change the city charger and introduce an ordinance that would preclude many facets of the city’s public-private partnership with Terra-Frisbie, a development group that was selected by the city council as a partner on the plan to transform more than 30 acres in downtown Boca Raton. Dozens of residents packed the council chambers, with dozens more overflowing in the corridor outside, which still drew a standing-room-only crowd to watch the proceedings on a video monitor…