Planning and Zoning Board Meeting 7/16 - Gulfstream Hotel

The agenda above is for this coming Wednesday's Planning, Zoning and Historic Resource Preservation Board meeting. The owners of the Gulfstream are coming back for what looks more complicated than it actually is. For some reason, the staff report and back up material are not available on the City's website. This was a policy that I pushed for when I was chairman of that board. I hope that it is just a fluke this week and not representative of a new policy.

If you were to read the staff report, you would likely be overwhelmed with minutiae. So I don't advise it. Really, the owners are simply wanting to go ahead with the already approved renovation of the historic hotel structure. They also want to preserve their approval on the new spa building (to the west) so that when economic conditions change they can go ahead and build as already approved. In the interim, they propose a tennis pro-shop along the southside of Lake Avenue, along with the addition of tennis courts on the western parcel. To do this, a number of conditions need to be altered - that is why they are appearing before the board.

Below are some renderings of what is being proposed and a visual review of what already has been approved:

This is the northern facade of the tennis pro-shop which would disguise the tennis courts from view from Lake Avenue.

This is looking northeast along S. Lakeside Drive showing the tennis court area and southside of the tennis pro-shop building.

This is a view as if you were standing in the middle of Lake Avenue, looking toward the southwest. The new tennis pro-shop building is in the background.

This is the already approved view of the eastern side of the historic hotel building. The two story addition contains additional space for the kitchen, moves deliveries and trash pick up to the alley location (west) and moves the pool to the second floor of the addition.

The following is the justification statement submitted by the applicant for amendment of the conditions related to 14 South Lakeside Drive.




Coincidentally, there is another item on the agenda listed before the Gulfstream items concerning the relocation of the historic building to 211 N. L Street. This is being done by another party and not by the owner of the Gulfstream.

Note: I am retained by CSC-Lake Worth, L.P., the owner of the Gulfstream Hotel.