TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Anthea Gianniotes, Development Services Department
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: November 15, 2022
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RESOLUTION NO. 186-22: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, OVERRULING THE DECISION OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD, WHICH SERVES AS THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY FOR THE CITY, FOR REZONING APPROXIMATELY 6.74 ACRES LOCATED AT 1155 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE FROM MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL OFFICE AND COMMERCIAL (MROC) TO SPECIAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT (SAD); PROVIDING A CONFLICTS CLAUSE, AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. (QUASI JUDICIAL)
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Review and consider Resolution No. 186-22, overruling the recommendation of denial of the Planning and Zoning Board for rezoning approximately 6.74 acres located at 1155 South Congress from MROC to SAD.
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Background:
The subject property is a +/- 6.74-acre lot located on the east side of South Congress Avenue, west of Interstate 95, between West Linton Boulevard and SW 10th Street/Lowson Boulevard. The property is primarily vacant with a 29,250SF warehouse/office building that was constructed in 1981 on the north side.
The applicant is requesting to rezone the subject property from Mixed Residential, Office, and Commercial (MROC) to Special Activities District (SAD) for the purpose of constructing a 375,355 SF, 267-unit multi-family development.
The property is zoned MROC with a land use map (LUM) designation of Congress Avenue Mixed Use (CMU). The CMU land use designation is intended to “accommodate a variety of commercial, office, and residential uses that provide development intensities that advance economic growth, provide incentives for transit-oriented development, and create multimodal development patterns along the Congress Avenue corridor, south of West Atlantic Avenue.”
Pursuant to LDR Section 4.4.25(A), the purpose and intent of the SAD is, “to provid...
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