About the Coalition
Built by residents and neighborhood leaders to focus on the issues that affect West Palm Beach as a whole.
Our purpose
The Coalition provides a coordinated, informed, and constructive citywide voice on issues affecting West Palm Beach’s long-term livability—growth and development, infrastructure, environmental resilience, transparency, public safety, historic character, mobility, and waterfront planning.
We complement existing neighborhood associations and local advocacy groups. Their local knowledge remains essential; WPBRC focuses on broader issues that affect multiple neighborhoods and residents collectively.
What we’re working toward
Practical, non-partisan priorities focused on how the city plans, decides, and communicates. Specific positions on individual proposals remain Board decisions.
Meaningful resident representation in long-term and neighborhood planning, including the Downtown Master Plan process.
Thoughtful, transparent review of development, zoning, and density so growth strengthens neighborhoods.
Clear notice of projects and decisions, with public information that is easy to find and understand.
Drainage, utilities, public works, and climate resilience that keep the city functioning and protected.
Traffic, parking, pedestrian safety, and public-safety concerns across the city.
Protecting the waterfront, green space, and environmental resilience for the long term.
How we are organized
The Board of Directors governs the Coalition, with leadership organized around the citywide focus areas residents share. No currently serving elected public official may sit on the Board.
Leadership
Leads operations and serves as the Coalition’s primary spokesperson.
Meet the BoardFocus area
Media relations, public messaging, and social media.
Focus area
Coordination with association presidents and community leaders.
Focus area
Zoning, land use, redevelopment, and major construction.
Focus area
Utilities, drainage, resiliency, transportation, and public works.
Focus area
Public-safety initiatives and neighborhood safety.
Focus area
Congestion, roadways, parking, pedestrian safety, and mobility.
Working groups
Government affairs, communications, membership, fundraising, waterfront and resilience, and research.
What we’re asking for
Constructive, non-partisan requests about how the city plans and decides, centered on long-term growth and meaningful resident participation.
Request 1
Allow time for mobility and infrastructure questions to be answered before major long-term plans are finalized.
Request 2
Support a public workshop to explore a Residential Planning Advisory Board.
Request 3
Align long-term city planning with county transportation plans and regional mobility studies.
Request 4
Make development, hearings, infrastructure work, and public studies easier for residents to follow.
Request 5
Engage neighborhoods early, before decisions are largely made.
Constructive participation
The Coalition’s public position is about process and participation, not stopping change.
What we are not asking for
We are not anti-growth, anti-development, seeking veto power, or trying to replace existing public boards.
What we are seeking
Clarity, transparency, coordination, and meaningful resident participation in decisions that shape the city.
Our principles
We focus on issues, policies, and processes—not personalities—and speak publicly through people authorized by the Board.
We do not endorse political candidates and focus on the long-term interests of residents and the city.
We distinguish reviewed public information from working drafts and link to supporting sources whenever possible.
We take up neighborhood disputes only when the Board determines they carry citywide significance.
Common questions
A quick orientation to how WPBRC works and where public positions come from.
WPBRC focuses on responsible growth, understandable public information, infrastructure and resilience, mobility and safety, the waterfront and environment, and meaningful resident participation.
A volunteer Board of Directors governs the Coalition. No currently serving elected public official may sit on the Board.
The public tracker is informational. Any Coalition position on an individual project is a separate Board decision and should not be inferred from a project’s presence in the tracker.
Yes. WPBRC does not endorse political candidates and focuses on public issues, policies, and civic processes rather than personalities.
