Boca's new animal feeding ban started with about 200 pigeons, the city is paying $519,925 for a Memorial Park master plan, and downtown's tallest tower is renting two parking spaces for $4,000 a year.

Let's get into it.

Boca now bans feeding nuisance animals, including iguanas, rats and mice. The City Council passed the ordinance 3-2 on August 25.

Bird feeders and the occasional duck at the pond are still fine.

It grew out of a fight on NW Spanish River Boulevard, where one resident says a neighbor's feeding draws 150 to 200 pigeons that have damaged his roof and outdoor furniture. The city says the rule is for "extraordinary situations where many, many animals are being attracted to a location." Mayor Andy Thomson, Stacy Sipple and Jon Pearlman voted yes. Yvette Drucker and Michelle Grau voted no. A code complaint was filed on September 1, and more inspections are set for later this month.

Your backyard bird feeder is safe. Two hundred pigeons are not.

Source: Boca Daily News

The City Council approved a $519,925 contract with Chen Moore and Associates for a master plan covering Memorial Park and the downtown civic area.

It covers about 17 city-owned acres, including City Hall, the Community Center, the Tennis Center and Singing Pines.

A $52,000 contingency brings the total to $571,925. The work runs about six months, and $52,620 of it is for community listening before a design charrette. The vote was 3-0. Deputy Mayor Michelle Grau recused herself and Jon Pearlman was absent. One resident at the meeting compared the price to Boulder, Colorado, which paid $600,000 for a plan covering 64,000 acres.

There's a listening phase. Show up and use it.

Source: Boca Post

Tower 155, downtown's tallest building at 155 East Boca Raton Road, is leasing two metered spaces out front from the city as an official loading zone.

It's $2,000 per space per year, and the spaces are theirs from 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.

After hours and on weekends, spaces 5305 and 5306 go back to public metered parking. The deal runs one year, can be extended two more, and the city can take the spaces back if it doesn't work. Until now, moving trucks and deliveries used the roughly 10-foot alley beside the 12-story tower, which is too tight for two vehicles to pass when a truck is stopped.

Parking on East Boca Raton Road on a weekday? Skip those two.

Source: Boca Daily News

Tinsley Ellis is a blues-rock guitarist, and he's playing The Funky Biscuit tonight with Eliza Neals opening.

Doors at 5, show at 7, and tickets run $35 to $50.

Doors open two hours before the first note, so there's time to claim a spot. Tickets are on the Biscuit's site.

303 SE Mizner Blvd.

A Thursday show that starts at 7 is a gift. Take it.

Source: The Funky Biscuit

FAU hosts Charlotte at 7pm at FAU Soccer Stadium, and it's the Owls' first American Conference game of the season.

Admission is free. FAU doesn't charge for any soccer match, men's or women's.

This season they've tied No. 20 Florida 1-1 and beaten Howard 7-0, and tonight is their first home game after three straight on the road. Can't make it? It streams on FAUSports.com.

The stadium is on the FAU campus at 777 Glades Road.

Free, outdoors, and the rain chance drops to single digits by 8. Go.

Source: FAU Athletics, FAU tickets

Maison Brunch is a French café by day on Sandalfoot Plaza Drive, and the banner on its site says it plainly: they're now open for dinner.

Moules marinières with French fries are $21.95, and steak frites is $25.95.

Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday, 5 to 8:30. There's boeuf bourguignon for $28.95, six escargots in garlic and parsley butter for $13.95, and the classics side of the menu has quiche Lorraine at $16.95 and the croque-madame at $17.95.

From 5 to 6:30 there's a French Sweet Hour with croissants, sweet crêpes, waffles, coffee, cappuccino and hot chocolate. The crème brûlée and the tarte Tatin are $6.50 each.

23064 Sandalfoot Plaza Drive. 561.409.2923.

Order the moules. Leave room for the crème brûlée.

Source: Maison Brunch

Beauty Glam Studio is a makeup and esthetics studio on South Federal Highway, founded by Marie Adkins, a licensed medical esthetician who worked at MAC Cosmetics and Benefit Cosmetics.

A lash lift is $100, or $125 with a tint, and it lasts six to eight weeks.

Got an event coming up? Special Event Makeup is $200 for two hours, and colorful shadow and glitter are included. On the lash side, the lift takes 45 minutes, a tint alone is $40, and bottom lashes are $20.

303 S Federal Highway. 954.507.4447. Open Tuesday to Friday 10 to 6 and Saturday 10 to 3.

Six weeks of waking up with your lashes already done.

Source: Beauty Glam Studio, Beauty Glam Studio makeup

American DanceSport Center is a ballroom and Latin studio out in Sandalfoot, and Thursday is one of its group class nights.

Tonight at 7 it's Bachata and Foxtrot, Part 1, for $20. No partner and no dance experience needed.

Every class starts with the basic step, so everyone begins at the same pace. Part 2 is next Thursday, September 24. Group classes run Monday through Thursday at 7, and a 10-class pack is $150 instead of $200.

New students can book two private 30-minute lessons for $39. The next in-studio practice party is Friday, September 25, 7 to 8:30, also $20.

23110 Sandalfoot Plaza Drive. 561.558.1234.

Two left feet is the target audience.

Source: American DanceSport Center, intro lessons

The Purse Ladies sells authenticated, pre-owned designer handbags from a shop on Saint Andrews Boulevard. Think Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine and Loewe.

Sell them a bag and they offer up to 65% of the resale value, and that number doesn't change with their promotions.

Book an appointment and the quote is guaranteed the same day. Walk-ins are welcome, but the evaluation can take a few days. Quotes hold for up to two weeks, and they pay by Zelle, PayPal or bank transfer.

Shopping instead? There's an Under $500 section, and shipping is free on orders over $250.

21090 Saint Andrews Blvd, Suite 1. 561.962.5102. Open Monday to Saturday, 10 to 5.

Sell one, carry another. The closet stays the same size.

Source: The Purse Ladies

Social and Sober, a community for women who want to hang out without everything revolving around drinking, is hosting an After Hours Coffee, Henna, and Jewelry Pop Up tonight at Muse Cafe, in the courtyard at the Boca Museum of Art.

Your ticket gets you a coffee or matcha and a henna tattoo, tonight from 6 to 8.

You pick your henna from the artists' designs. Ticket holders also get 10% off at Acapuro, a charm bar where you mix and match charms into your own necklace or bracelet. Charms start at $5, they're hypoallergenic, and they come in rhodium or gold plating. Tickets are on Ticket Tailor.

Parking is free in the museum garages, or you can pay on the main strip. Go through the gate to the right of the museum to get to the back courtyard.

501 Plaza Real.

No cocktails required. You still leave with new jewelry.

Source: Social and Sober, Acapuro

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Tonight has a free FAU soccer game at 7, a blues show at the same hour, and a $20 bachata class in Sandalfoot for people who have never danced. The French café on the same street serves dinner from 5, so that last one is a whole plan.

If you do one thing: the $20 bachata class. Nobody there expects you to know the steps.

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The Good in Boca Team

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