TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Anthea Gianniotes, Development Services Director
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: April 22, 2025
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ORDINANCE NO. 13-25: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, REZONING LAND MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 0.79 ACRES LOCATED AT 1660 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, FROM PROFESSIONAL AND OFFICE DISTRICT TO GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT; AMENDING THE “CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, ZONING MAP, JULY 6, 2021”; PROVIDING A CONFLICTS CLAUSE AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.(QUASI JUDICIAL/FIRST READING)
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Consider Ordinance No. 13-25, a privately initiated rezoning from Professional and Office District (POD) to General Commercial (GC) for the 0.79 acre property located at 1660 South Congress Avenue.
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Background:
The subject request is to rezone a 0.79-acre parcel located at 1660 South Congress Avenue from POD to GC.
This property was annexed into the City in 1960 with Low Density (LD) Residential zoning. Subsequently, the property was rezoned to Medium Density Residential (RM-15), followed by Special Activities District (SAD) zoning, until the property was rezoned to POD.
In late 2022, the City engaged with Streetsense and CBRE (real estate consultants) to perform a study of the corridor (attached). On May 22, 2023, CBRE prepared the Delray Beach Congress Avenue Strategies Plan to provide market-informed development and retail strategy recommendations for the Congress Avenue corridor, with the goal of balancing commercial and housing growth. The Study found that there are many office and retail vacancies, limited space for growing industrial businesses, and the increasing pressure to build stand-alone residential development along the corridor due to the increased costs of land (Delray Beach Congress Ave...
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