While Nachlas leaned on her record and the city’s current trajectory, Thomson and Liebelson positioned themselves as the candidates of change, specifically regarding the controversial “One Boca” downtown campus project. VisionThe most heated exchanges of the night centered on the pace of development in Boca Raton. Mike Liebelson issued a stark warning about infrastructure, arguing that the city has pushed growth far before it was ready to handle it. Thomson described Boca as a “divided city” because of the project and expressed a desire to bridge that gap. Liebelson doubled down on the idea that the city’s current path is unsustainable without a major shift in how it handles developer influence and infrastructure planning.