From the Parrot Cove Neighborhood Association Meeting held last night (4/21/14)

This is a playlist of three videos of a talk by Director of Community Sustainability, William Waters. He reviews six hypothetical redevelopment sites and walks through the presentation previously given to land development professionals. That meeting took place at the Casino building a few weeks ago. He touches on how the new land development regulations would assist in the redevelopment of these sites, but caters his talk to a "lay" audience. He also fields many questions from neighbors who attended the meeting.

You will see why, if you watch the videos, that this may be referred to as William's "God" talk. He really is quite knowledgeable and you will learn a lot about the city in general. He also talks about code enforcement, redevelopment and the possible re-configuring of Dixie Hwy., short term vacation rentals and sober houses. I believe he plans to appear at more neighborhood associations and community groups with this same presentation.

Keep in mind that these are "hypothetical" scenarios. Implementation of them depends on land assembly, developer interest and resources and could vary widely from the designs shown here. These are "what if" scenarios that the city has put together by a third party consultant. None of them represent a vision of a project as proposed by an actual developer.

A chart shown in the presentation compares "development fees" charged in Lake Worth versus other municipalities. Lake Worth's are markedly lower in contrast. When asked what all those numbers represent, this was William's response:

As for the fee comparisons,  Dolores Key researched all the costs associated with a project to obtain a building permit.  The costs include development and planning review costs, impact fees, building permit fees and other fixed costs required to get a project approved in the various municipalities.  As for unincorporated county, their zoning categories were not conducive to our study and we wanted to focus on  urbanized areas.