An analysis of the proposed Palm Harbor Marina project...

This is from Walkable West Palm Beach, click title for link. It's a critique of a new waterfront development which would include a hotel and parking lot near Waterfront Towers in downtown West Palm Beach. It is not covered by other height restrictions in the downtown and can be built to 75 feet.

We are fortunate in Lake Worth to have so much public land on the water in the form of north and south Bryant Park, the golf course and, of course, our beach property. Other cities unfortunately tend to back-up to their waterfront and use the space for the predominant mode of transportation in this day and age, the automobile. Being from Michigan, its amazing to look at the Motor City and how it basically "concretized" its waterfront with parking garages, buildings and highways. On the other side of the St. Clair and Detroit rivers sits Windsor, Ontario. It is indeed a different country entirely and has kept its waterfront open with parks and public spaces. It offers a great view of downtown Detroit, showing off its riverfront parking garages.

West Palm Beach is not about to become a Detroit, but keeping an active pedestrian area to link the north and south waterfront in the downtown area is a good idea.