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City Wins Award for Restoration of Sandy Ridge Sanctuary The Grey Fox, one of the Sanctuary’s many residents, lives amongst various native Florida plants. The City has received First Place in the State from the Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) for the Community Development Department’s restoration of Sandy Ridge Sanctuary. The award was within FNPS’s “Design with Natives 2000” Landscape Awards Program. The Sanctuary is located at NW 40 Street, between Riverside Drive and University Drive. Since a 1994 citizen vote to purchase and protect privately owned Environmentally Sensitive Lands (ESL), the City has restored Sandy Ridge Sanctuary, a forty-acre slash pine flatwood originally planned for 195 zero-lot-line homes. Staff designed the Sanctuary with native plants such as fakahatchee grass, sabal palms, cocoplum, and slash pines. Organized in 1980, the Florida Native Plant Society is a non-profit organization founded to promote the preservation, conservation and restoration of Florida native plants and native plant communities. Their primary goal is education, which they promote through educational tools and activities such as conferences, workshops and conservation efforts. EARTHFEST 2000 Recently, families tickled their “nature” bones at Earthfest 2000, an Earth Day-themed event sponsored by the Community Development and Parks and Recreation Departments. Residents enjoyed live animal presentations, tours of the Sanctuary, displays, giveaways, and fun, hands-on nature projects for children. Hurricane Season is Here! Stock up on these supplies: -Battery-powered radio and flashlight -Water purification tablets -Disposable plates and utensils, storage containers and plastic bags -Sterno or gas camping stove -Two-week supply of food, including two quarts of water per person, per day -Personal hygiene items, toilet paper, medications, soap, and disinfectant -First aid kit Protect Windows and Doors -When buying shutters, make sure they meet current building code standards. Call the Building Department at 344-1025 for more information. -Metal shutters should be installed by a professional and require a permit issued by the City s Building Department. -Most importantly, make sure all shutters are installed properly. Even the best shutters offer little protection if installed improperly. Coral Springs Public Shelter During the 2000 hurricane season, only Coral Springs High School will open as a public shelter in the event of a Category One storm. If a storm s severity increases, Taravella High School, Ramblewood Middle School and Forest Glen Middle School will open as needed. Senior Citizens with special medical problems who may require assistance must register by calling 357-6402. Remember Your Pets -If you must evacuate, do not leave your pet behind. If it is unsafe for you to remain, it s also unsafe for your pet. -Place an out-of-state contact name and number along with your own, on your pet s ID tag. -Public shelters do not allow pets, but the City s volunteer-staffed emergency pet shelter is available as an option. Call the Police Department Humane Unit in advance at 346-1339 to register your dog or cat. 8 • CITIZEN June/July 2000
Neighborhood Matching Grant Program Provides Assistance for Improvement Projects Residents interested in enhancing their neighborhood are encouraged to apply for the Neighborhood Matching Grant Program. The City will provide matching funds of up to $5,000 for single family neighborhoods that utilize City streets within their development, and up to $2,000 for condominium/ townhouse neighborhoods bordering a City collector or arterial roadway (most City streets). Past recipients have made various improvements such as enhanced lighting and relandscaping. To be eligible, neighborhoods must have either a Homeowners Association or Neighborhood Association and be established as a notfor-profit corporation pursuant to Florida Statute, Chapter 617.301-312. At press time, the City was revising the program’s policy guidelines, in an effort to increase eligibility for various types of neighborhoods. For revision updates, visit the City’s website at www.ci.coral-springs.fl.us. Applications may be obtained at City Hall, 9551 West Sample Road, and at City Hall in the Mall, located in the south section of Coral Square Mall. Applications are also available via fax-ondemand through the City’s Information line at 755-4636, option #256. For more information, please contact the Community Development Department at 344-1114. Local Groups Work Together to Beautify Community Through Landscaping Efforts Residents of Waterside, a subdivision of Cypress Isles, worked together, through a voluntary effort, to relandscape a median with flowers. Waterside residents raised all project funding and completed the entire project (including fundraising) within one month. Rae Soder of the Lake Coral Springs Association and Marcy DiMare of the Coral Springs Garden Club worked with crews to relandscape one of the Lake Coral Springs signs. The project, funded by the Lake Coral Springs Association, was a community effort to improve the appearance of various entrance signs in the Lake Coral Springs area. The Matching Grant Program Has Helped Increase Neighborhood Vitality in Many Communities, For Example: Cypress Isles - This subdivision of Cypress Run replaced four rotting wooden signs with two new, sand-blasted urethane signs, along with additional landscaping work around both signs. “Without the program, our association would never have been able to complete the project. The project not only helped beautify our community it really brought the community closer together,” said Association Member David Schulson. Forest Hills - Through fundraising and city matching funds generated from a variety of resources, this community replaced two miles of medians with new landscaping and irrigation. Forest Hills Residents’ Association, known as “Circle on the Square, was selected as 1999 “Neighborhood of the Year” by Neighborhoods USA (NUSA). Before After Before After City Receives Award For Construction of Water Storage Reservoir The City recently received the Distinguished Architectural Treatment Award from The Portland Cement Association, located in Skokie, IL, for construction of the City’s 1.35 million-gallon water storage reservoir. The tank has 25-foot, seven-inch high walls, is 95 feet in diameter, and was built by Camp Dresser & McKee, Cambridge, Mass., and Crom Corporation, Gainesville, FL. The City installed precast capitals with stainless steel rods. Columns and horizontal bands were also installed through conventional shotcrete construction, a process involving spraying the concrete onto the surface rather than the cast. The reservoir’s bands were painted with a contrasting color to create a pleasing aesthetic appearance. February/March 2000 CITIZEN • 9 June/July 2000 CITIZEN • 9
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