Editing Tamarac, Florida (section)

==History==
[[Image:Seal of Tamarac, Florida (1963-1988).png|left|thumb|Monochromatic depiction of the city's first official seal, used from 1963 to 1991.]]
In the early 1960s a young developer named [[Ken Behring]] came from the [[Midwest]] and bought land where he could, creating an [[active adult community]] of two-bedroom maintenance-free homes.  He called his new city Tamarac, named after the nearby Tamarac Country Club in [[Oakland Park, Florida|Oakland Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tamarachistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-name-solved.html|title=Our Name: Solved!|date=9 January 2012 |publisher=Tamarac Historical Society|access-date=January 9, 2012}}</ref>

In 1963, Behring built and Jesse Pilch sold the city's first development east of [[Florida State Road 7|State Road 7]], Tamarac Lakes Section One and Section Two. Next came homes built on a former orange grove called Tamarac Lakes North and Tamarac Lakes Boulevard. Four of Behring's last developments were Tamarac Lakes South, then the Mainlands of Tamarac Lakes just west of State Road 7, and finally the Woodlands community.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamarac.org/index.aspx?NID=118|title=Tamarac Florida Official Website|publisher=Tamarac Florida Official Website|access-date=September 19, 2012}}</ref>

The city's early leaders, hoping to preserve Tamarac as a bedroom community, allowed [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida|Fort Lauderdale]] to annex commercial pockets, forever losing land that might have bolstered the city's coffers. In the late 1970s, the city de-annexed a long line of commercial buildings from State Road 7 all the way to Northwest 31 Avenue, but it went along with Behring's vision of Tamarac as a bedroom community. The boundaries were wherever Behring decided to build homes. The city's current eastern boundaries narrow to a sliver from Northwest 31 to 37 Avenues, then widen to the south. The city's easternmost boundary extends below [[Florida State Road 870|Commercial Boulevard]] to Northwest 16 Avenue.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2001-09-02/community/0108300939_1_tamarac-east-side-city-hall|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226013017/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2001-09-02/community/0108300939_1_tamarac-east-side-city-hall|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 26, 2013|title=An Elusive East Side Story|newspaper=South Florida Sun Sentinel|access-date=September 2, 2001}}</ref>  City officials had once considered revising their east city limit lines to ensure efficient delivery of government services.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-08-24-8602200321-story.html|title=Tamarac's City Boundaries Make No Sense At All|newspaper=South Florida Sun Sentinel}}</ref>

Behring also named a subdivision he built in the [[Pinellas Park, Florida|Pinellas Park]] area, the "Mainlands of Tamarac By-the-Gulf".