TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Anthea Gianniotes, Development Services Director
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: January 6, 2026
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ORDINANCE NO. 05-26: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING A SMALL-SCALE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT REDESIGNATING PARCELS OF LAND MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 7.6 ACRES LOCATED AT 2855, 2875, AND 2905 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, FROM CONGRESS AVENUE MIXED USE TO COMMERCE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE “COMMUNITY PLANNING ACT”, FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 163.3187; PROVIDING A CONFLICTS CLAUSE AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. (FIRST READING)
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Consider Ordinance No. 05-26, a privately initiated request for a small-scale Land Use Map Amendment from Congress Avenue Mixed Use (CMU) to Commerce (CMR) for the 7.6 acre property located at 2855, 2875, and 2905 South Congress Avenue.
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Background:
The subject request is to amend the land use designation of three parcels, totaling 7.6 acres, located at 2855, 2875, and 2905 South Congress Avenue from CMU to CMR. The request is being reviewed and processed concurrently with a rezoning request from Mixed Residential, Office, and Commercial (MROC) to Mixed Industrial and Commercial (MIC).
The property is located within the 2900 Block, east of South Congress Avenue and is currently developed with five commercial / office / warehouse buildings, totaling 102,632 square feet. The five buildings were developed over the course of three years, from 1983 to 1986 under the CMR land use category and Light Industrial (LI) zoning district. In 2007, the land use designation for the property was amended from CMR to CMU as part of a City-initiated land use map amendment (Ordinance No. 38-06) along the Congress Avenue corridor. The land...
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