AGENDA DOCUMENTS
PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT
MEMORANDUM #97- 042
Staff Report
Board of Zoning Appeals
Meeting
Date:
February 20, 1997
Petition:
Case No. 230
File No:
BZA V 97-002
Location:
1900-2118 Corporate Drive, approximately 1400 feet south of Woolbright
Road
Owner:
Menorah Realty, LTD., c/o Colliers Lehrer Adler, agent
Project
Name:
Boynton Commerce Center
Variance
Request:
Variance to Section 7.H.17 of Chapter 2 of the City's Land Development
Regulations is requested to allow reduction in the required peripheral
greenbelt width from 25 feet to 3.5 feet.
BACKGROUND
The subject property, a portion of the Boynton Commerce Center, is located approximately
1400 feet south of Woolbright Road and east of the railroad track (see enclosed Exhibit "A"
- Location Map and Exhibit "B" - Survey). The zoning designation of the property is PID
(Planned Industrial Development). The developed portion of the PID contains three
office/warehouse buildings totaling approximately 215,000 square feet and houses several
industrial tenants.
In 1992, the applicant received an approval for the construction of an additional 69 parking
spaces and a reduction in width of the required 25 foot landscape buffer along the east
property line from 25 feet to a 15 feet at the north end of parcel 3-D and to 6 feet at the
south end of parcel 3-F.
Subsequent to this approval and during preparation of the construction drawings for the
parking addition the applicant indicated that the approved reduction in the width of the
landscape buffer was insufficient. Therefore, in order to move forward with the proposed
parking construction, further reduction in the landscape width to 3 feet 6 inches is now
sought (see Exhibit "C" - site plan).
The following is a description of the zoning districts and land uses of the properties that
surround the subject property:
North -
Undeveloped portion of the Boynton Commerce Center PID
East -
100' wide CSX Railway right-of-way and farther east is undeveloped
land zoned REC (Recreation)
West -
Right-of-way of the LWDD Canal and farther west is a residential
development (Leisureville), zoned R1AA1PUD
South -
Undeveloped portion of the Boynton Commerce Center PID
Page 2
Memorandum No. 97-042
Boynton Commerce Center
Case No. 230
Staff Report - Board of Zoning Appeals
ANALYSIS
The City of Boynton Beach Land Development Regulations, Chapter 2 - Zoning sets forth
the following requirements for peripheral greenbelts within PID zoned property:
17. Peripheral greenbelt. The project area shall be enclosed on all sides with the exception of
accessways for traffic and freight by a landscaped area with a minimum width of twenty-five
(25) feet except when such property abuts a residential district such greenbelt shall have a
minimum width offorty (40) feet.
As shown on the proposed site plan and the variance application (see Exhibit "c" - Site
Plan and see Exhibit "0" - Application and Letter of Request), the peripheral landscape
width will be reduced only along the eastern boundary of the subject site, along the right-of-
way of the CSX railroad. The proposed reduction in width of the greenbelt would affect the
size of the area to be sodded and would not impact the existing hedge and tree material
(see Exhibit "E" - landscape plan and applicant's justification statement in Exhibit "F").
The petitioner's request is for a reduction of the required buffer to 11 feet on the north end
of the east property line and to 3 feet 6 inches on the south end of the east property line.
Such reduction would be impractical as the required buffer boundary would not be parallel
to the property line, thus very difficult to interpret and enforce. Therefore, staff
recommends that the request be changed to a reduction of the width to 3 feet 6 inches
along the eastern property line of parcels 3-D, 3-E and
3-F. However, staff further recommends that, if the Board chooses to approve the
variance, a condition be attached to the approval that the reduction in width of the required
peripheral buffer not reduce the quality of the landscape material (hedge and tree) below
the standards as approved by the latest site plan modification of the Boynton Commerce
Center.
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