TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Timothy Stillings, Development Services Director
THROUGH: Chief Neal de Jesus, Interim City Manager
DATE: March 12, 2019
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A WAIVER REQUEST TO LDR SECTION 4.1.4(B) and (D) USE OF LOTS OR RECORD TO PERMIT "MARKET RATE" RESIDENTIAL STRUCTUREs ON LOTS WHICH HAVE FRONTAGE OF LESS THAN 50 FEET. (QUASI-JUDICIAL HEARING)
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Motion to approve the waiver request to LDR Section 4.1.4(B) and (D) to permit "market rate" residential structures on lots which have frontage of less than 50 feet based on positive findings per LDR Section 2.4.7(B)(5).
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Background:
The subject property, located at 302 SE 5th Street (PCN:12-43-46-21-01-005-0010) on the southeast corner of SE 3rd Avenue and SE 5th Street, is a combination of two platted, Lots of Record described as Lot 1 and 2, Block 5, Osceola Park, (Plat Book 3, Page 2 of the Palm Beach County Public Records). The combined lots measure 130.20 feet deep with a frontage and width of 93.70 feet; 0.28 acres (12,300 sq. ft). The subject property is located in the Osceola Park Neighborhood and is zoned R-1-A (Single Family Residential). The combined lots currently contain a 980 sq. ft., one-story residence built in 1948. The combined lots are two platted, Lots of Record, each with frontage less than 50 feet wide. Currently, these two lots can be developed with a workforce housing unit on each lot. The requested waiver is to allow these lots to be developed with market rate units.
The Osceola Park Neighborhood is characterized as a mixture of small lots located adjacent to larger lots. A majority of the existing residential structures in this area were constructed before 1956. Prior to 1990, the development of lots was permitted by right as long as the lot qualified as a lot of record and complied with all other requirements of that zoning district regardless of the lot width. In 1990, with the adoption of Land Development Regulations (LDR) Section...
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