Development’s always on deck in Palm Beach County
The recent Palm Beach Post article, “County planning commission says no to development west of Delray, but developers optimistic,” details that commission’s rejecting — for the third time — a developer’s proposal for commercializing a 50-acre parcel at the Agricultural Reserve’s “eastern edge.”
Three years ago, a million square-foot warehouse was nixed; then a mixed-use plan — apartments, hotel, commercial and office space — was rejected, and this month a “775,546 square-foot project, including warehouses, self-service storage, a fitness center, manufacturing and processing operations, a taproom and office space” has been vetoed.
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In America’s national pastime, three strikes and the batter’s out. But in Florida’s state pastime, development, three strikes only means a “fourth-coming” swing, unless the county commissioners, overrule the planning commission’s call.
Developers have to win but once, conservationists, every time.Richard Handelsman, West Palm Beach
An overhead picture of the site where longtime nursery operator Paul Okean wants to build a mixed-use project that would include commercial and retail space, a hotel and 734 apartments in the Ag Reserve at the intersection of the Turnpike and Atlantic Avenue. The Planning Commission called the proposal “a bridge too far,” recommending it not be built.
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