City of Delray Beach - File #: 25-365

• File #: 25-365
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 3/14/2025
• In control: City Commission
• On agenda: 4/8/2025
• Title: ORDINANCE NO. 01-25: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, REZONING LAND MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 4.27 ACRES LOCATED AT 975 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)
• Sponsors: Development Services Department

TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Anthea Gianniotes, Development Services Director
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: April 8, 2025

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ORDINANCE NO. 01-25: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, REZONING LAND MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 4.27 ACRES LOCATED AT 975 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. 01-25, a privately initiated rezoning from Mixed Industrial and Commercial (MROC) to Mixed Industrial and Commercial (MIC) for the 4.27 acre property located at 955-975 South Congress Avenue.
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Background:
The subject request is to rezone a 4.27-acre parcel located at 955-975 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).

This property was previously zoned MIC before being rezoned to MROC as part of a City-initiated rezoning of the corridor in 2007 (Ordinance No. 05-07). The property is developed with two commercial/office/warehouse buildings that were established under the previous MIC zoning. As a result, the property owner has experienced challenges to sustain and attract businesses that are permitted under the MROC zoning district. Many of the established uses were deemed nonconforming uses after the 2007 rezoning from MIC to MROC, and LDR Section 1.3.4(B)(2) states that a nonconforming uses may not be re-established if the use ceases for a continuous period of 180 days. This is often a difficult time frame for another...