Galaxy Park

Love it over there no one is ever there and I can let the kids play while studying

Nice Park

The best of the bestz!

Totally awesome!!!!

Adjacent and north of Galaxy Park is a 5 acre sand pine preserve which has gopher tortoises and is owned by the City. It was owned by the School Board but was swapped with City owned land on Boynton beach blvd to create a better footprint for the platinum LEED Galaxy Elementary School.

The Sand Pine Preserve was in jeopardy because the new City Comission wanted to give the land to Habitat for Humanity to build 22 houses for low income people selected from Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Boynton Beach. This was only stopped because volunteer Sierra Club members found the deed documents which stated the school board would give the land to the City if the City agreed to maintain it as a nature preserve and informed the City Commission of the provisions of the deed. Plus the school board did not cave into City Commission requests to waive the deed restrictions.

9 months later the City is starting to fulfill its obligations by instructing the Rec and Park Dept. to assist in organizing volunteer work outings with Galaxy Elementary school to remove exotic and invasive plants. The City Commission also approved $30,000 in the 2018-19 city budget to assist in maintaining the preserve so it can be utilized by Galaxy Elementary school as an outdoor classroom.