Rescinding of Sunset Property Zoning/Land Use: The Effect

This item is on the agenda for the upcoming August 4th City Commission meeting. I thought it would be helpful to remind everyone - again - what exactly this means and the implications it carries. It is being promoted as single family land use and zoning, which it is not. It also would allow other uses than single family and multiple family townhomes - including private kennels.

The following analysis was put together by the Zoning Director of Palm Beach County - who happened to sit on the Planning and Zoning Board at the time the recommendation was made to the City Commission. It was not put together by the property owner or their agent.

A comparison is also given related to the development standards for Palm Beach County MR-5. The County also allows a transfer of development rights, which would allow up to 36 units an acre on the 4 acre property.

The traffic study done for the project assumed a conservatively high figure of eighty (80) units and met the County's traffic performance standards. The project would have been limited to a maximum of forty (40) units and would also have gone through special use permit and site plan review by the Planning and Zoning Board.

Click the items below for greater detail. This project has been drawn out for purely political reasons for four years and is sure to be a source of another lawsuit against the city.