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Currently: Pennell Marine

This property, and all of Eller St (NE 2nd St) are on the brink of irreversible, exploitative change

Exploitative overdevelopment is when developers and the city work a deal to change the zoning for the benefit of developers, not the current residents. They have perfected this task that relies on having as little community participation as possible. 


Wildlife lives here that’s going to be chased out. How would 600+ more cars in and out every day affect the peaceful living and property values of the homeowners nearby? How do residents feel about existing gridlock being compounded by 10 times the existing density? 

Appx height profile of 6-story, 327-unit Vista Clara apartment complex, and it’s four-story garage.

Appx height profile of 6-story, 327-unit Vista Clara apartment complex, and it’s four-story garage.

Why Quiet Rezoning and Exploitative Over-Development Can’t Work Here:


    ANOTHER deerfield Beach Exploitative OverDevelopment Project

    It starts with sneaky rezoning, ends with “Sorry, too late for you to do anything about it now.”

    Vista Clara is yet another exploitative overdevelopment project in Deerfield Beach that was snuck inside a community right past the neighbors. It all starts with the red flag of a rezoning request! 


    Four years after this article came out, they haven’t broken ground yet, and the neighbors have been kept in the dark about this project and it’s potential significant hazards to pedestrian and traffic safety, and destruction of home value, and gridlock between and MLK Blvd. and Federal Highway, along NE 2nd St.

    Vista Clara has 326 units & will be at Pennell Marine on North River Drive, bordering homes on NE 1 St Ave & NE 5 St., just west of Dixie, north of NE 2 Street. A traffic study shows Vista Clara will generate 1,775 trips a day. 

    2020 rendering of a development proposed within the Hillsboro River Estates community.

    Screenshot from Feb. 2020 New Pelican article by Judy Wilson. Vista Clara could have 326 apartments!

    How Were the Residents Consulted?

    Was resident participation request requested by the city?

    This huge apartment complex inside of a small, closed in neighborhood with very limited access, somehow received approval from the City of Deerfield Beach, despite the obvious conflicts of interest, hazards to pedestrian safety, hazards to traffic safety, and dramatic escalation of current, existing gridlock, particularly in and NE 2nd St and around Deerfield Beach elementary. Get down from there.


    This could add more than 600 cars to that cul-de-sac if each apartment had less than two cars.


    There will be more than enough cars in that complex to line up all the way from Vista Clara to the new Chick-fil-A on US1 & NE 2nd St and back again.


    The Vista Clara Apartments planned for 401 N River Ave in Deerfield Beach.

    Rendering for the proposed Vista Clara Apartments at 401 N River Ave in Deerfield Beach, FL.

    City Records Downloads

    Trying to locate and upload all related files related to Vista Clara here.

    Cities of abandonment of land to the developers (pdf)

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    PRR Vista Clara Notification Boundaries and Proof (png)

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    City’s abandonment of land (pdf)

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    Resolution and Vista Clara Development Agreement (PDF)

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    Subject Property: 401 NE River Dr., Deerfield, FL

    401 Northeast River Drive, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441, United States

    Who is driving exploitative over-development in Deerfield?

    In less than a minute, Commissioner Todd Drosky clearly defines his plan to exploit Deerfield Beach:


    “The developers, like it or not, are the ones that are going to drive this train. It’s going to take a relationship with the builders to find out what they want. Builders want land! And the good news is, we have land to offer! We need to see what financial arrangements they would consider. I am 100% on board."

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