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. 04-26: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, REZONING PARCELS OF LAND MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 7.6 ACRES LOCATED AT 2855, 2875, AND 2905 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, FROM MIXED RESIDENTIAL, OFFICE, AND COMMERCIAL TO MIXED INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL; 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. 04-26, a privately initiated rezoning from Mixed Industrial and Commercial (MROC) to Mixed Industrial and Commercial (MIC) 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 rezone a 7.6-acre parcel located at 2855, 2875, and 2905 South Congress Avenue from MROC to MIC. The request is being reviewed and processed concurrently with a small-scale land use map amendment request from Congress Avenue Mixed Use (CMU) to Commerce (CMR).
The property is comprised of three parcels 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 Light Industrial (LI) zoning designation. Between 1989 and 1990, the property was rezoned from LI to MIC, and then rezoned to MROC as part of a City-initiated rezoning of the Congress Avenue corridor in 2007 (Ordinance No. 05-07).
As many of the existing uses were established under the LI and MIC zoning district, the property ...
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