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REVIEW COMMENTS I NING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM NO. 94-065 PLANNING ~ .I TO: I J. Scott MIller Ci~ Manager ~:-:/i''-nL-tt....~, .)., Iju1~ - L' Tambri J. Heyden' Acting Planning and Zoning Director FROM: DATE: March 9, 1994 SUBJECT: Boynton Lakes Plaza - File No. 816 Administrative Appeal/Site Plan Modification (buffer wall) NATURE OF REOUEST Roy Largue, of White-Spunner Construction, Inc., is requesting a site plan modification in connection with an appeal of an administrative determination regarding the required, six foot high buffer wall at Boynton Lakes Plaza. A six foot high, stuccoed, concrete block buffer wall was required by the City Commission, as a condition of the original site plan approval of the shopping center, to screen from the adjacent residents of Boynton Lakes PUD, view of the parking and mechanical areas at the rear of the shopping center. Boynton Lakes Plaza is a shopping center nearing completion at the northwest corner of Boynton Lakes Boulevard and Plaza Lane. The referenced wall has been constructed, however a 232 foot long portion of the wall, starting at the northeast corner near Hypoluxo Road and Boynton Lakes Boulevard and extending south, has been measured to be less than the required six feet in height at the outside edge. Mr. Largue is requesting approval to retain the wall at its existing height, which at the shortest point, measures 3.75 feet (see attached letters from Mr. Largue to myself, dated February 23, 1994 and to Scott Miller, dated February 23, 1994). BACKGROUND The rear of the shopping center faces Boynton Lakes Boulevard and Plaza Lane and across both of these rights-of-way, to the east and south, is the Boynton Lakes PUD. Boynton Lakes, Plat 6A, comprised of existing single family homes, is located on the east side of Boynton Lakes Boulevard. On the south side of Plaza Lane is the remaining, undeveloped portion of the PUD, specifically Boynton Lakes, Plat 5, "Best Homes". Last month this project was granted a time extension to their site plan and concurrency exemption approval for 41 townhomes. During the course of the three, separate site plan approvals that have been granted for shopping center construction on the parcel since as early as 1985, six foot high buffer wa:l construction has always been a City Commission condition of approval. More recently, with a 1990 site plan modification, the buffer wall was discussed and was continued to be required. Finally, in July of 1993, an appeal was filed regarding the denial of a minor site plan modification requested to change the wall material from CBS to wood. This appeal was denied by the City Commission. As previously mentioned, the shopping center is nearing completion. During a construction inspection conducted by City inspectors in January, it was noted that the outside wall height at various points along Boynton Lakes Boulevard, was less than the required six feet. On January 28, 1994, the attached administrative determination (letter from myself to Jeff Carrico) was prepared stating that the wall would have to be reconstructed ao that all points along the outside of the wall would be no less than six feet in height. It was understood that additional courses of block would be applied in a stepped fashion.