UNEMPLOYMENT FRAUD
Two village residents reported their identities had been used to file fraudulently for state unemployment insurance benefits between July 2 and July 9.
VANDALISM
At least a dozen cars were found spray-painted between July 2 and July 3, including on Laramie Avenue, Riverside Drive, Illinois Road, Elmwood Avenue, Manor Drive, Frontage Road.
On July 3, police noticed the North Branch Road sign was missing at the intersection with Riverside Drive and a street sign had been spray painted in the 800 block of Laramie Avenue.
Someone spray-painted a building in the 3600 block of Illinois Road at some point on or before July 3, police were told.
Colonial Lane home built in 1946 earns landmark designation
Palm Beach Daily News
A one-story, Colonial Revival style-home on the north side of Colonial Lane earned landmark designation last week in a unanimous vote of the Town Council.
The 2,000-square-foot home at 223 Colonial Lane, in the El Encanto subdivision in the North End, was designed and built in 1946 by architect Oliver T. Graham.
It is the first home on Colonial Lane to be landmarked, said Janet Murphy, a landmark consultant for the town. There are 21 houses on the street.
Town Council approval for the Colonial Lane home followed a unanimous recommendation from the Landmarks Preservation Commission last month to landmark the dwelling, which was purchased a month ago for $3.3 million by Thomas and Robyn Wasserman, according to county records.
Historic site survey will aid town in preservation planning efforts
Surveyors looked at 2,240 potential historic structures within the town, and recorded 1,721 of them.
Palm Beach Daily News
A months-long survey of historic structures within the town will be used to support preservation planning efforts and aid in future development, town officials said.
The firm presented its findings to the Town Council earlier this month. What we really wanted to be able to give the town of Palm Beach was a really great tool to use for preservation planning efforts moving forward, said Patricia Davenport-Jacobs, historic preservation manager for Environmental Sciences.
Town Council approves renovation plans for historic Queens Lane home
Palm Beach Daily News
Two weeks after receiving approval from the town s landmarks board for a major renovation and demolition project, the owners of adjacent homes on Queens Lane earned a second thumbs-up from the Town Council.
In a unanimous vote, council members approved four variances that would allow Jon and Liza Mauck to combine their properties at 201 and 221 Queens Lane to add a two-story guest house and garage on one parcel of land and a two-story pool cabana on the other.
The two parcels total 23,140 square feet.
The Maucks plans include demolishing the two-story, Georgian Colonial home at 221 Queens Lane to add the guest house, while the pool house will be built north of the existing home at 201 Queens Lane.