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APPLICATION SHUTTS & BOWEN ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW (A PARTNERSHIP INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS) 20 NORTH ORANGE AVENUE SU'TE 1000 ORLANDO FLORIDA 3280' TELEPHONE (407) 423 3200 TELECOPIER (407) 42S 8316 FRANK B SHUTTS (1870 1947) CRATE D BOWEN (1871 19S9) June 17, 1994 via FEDERAL EXPRESS GARY M. BAGLIEBTER KATRINA O. BAKER ARNOLD l. BERMAN JOSEPH O. BOLTON CHRISTOPHER W BOYETT BOWMAN BROWN P.A. ANDREW M. BRUMBY JUOITH A. BURKE THOMAS P CALLAN SHEILA M. CESARANO JOHN S. CHOWNING, P.A. STEVEN L. CHUDNOW JONATHAN COHEN KEVI N D. COWAN KAREN H CURTIS. P.A. LU IS A. DE ARMAS, P. A. GREGORY L. DENES KATH LEEN L. DEUTSCH JEAN-CHARLES DIBBS LINDA W. DILLMAN JAMES F' DURHAM. n CHARLES ROBINSON FAWSETT P.A. ESTEBAN A. F'ERRER ROBERT G. FRACASSO JR. ROBERT A. FREYER ROGER FRIEDBAUER WILLIAM J GALLWEY ill STEPHEN B. GILLMAN. P.A. ROBERT BLAIR GOLDMAN ANDREW L. GORDON MICHAEL L. GORE JODI M GRESS ROBERT E. GUNN P A. JOHN K. HARRIS. JR. Ms Tambri Heyden Acting Planning and Zoning Director City of Boynton Beach Post Office Box 310 Boynton Beach, Florida 33425-0310 EDMUND T HENRY ill DON L. HORN MARY RUTH HOUSTON YOLANDA CASH JACKSON WILLIAM N. JACOBS THOMAS H. JUSTICE. ill MARVIN A. KIRSNER. P.A. JOHN T KOLINSKI JEFFREY M LANDAU RICHARD M LESLIE. P.A. MAXINE M LONG DON A. LYNN P.A. LEE D. MACKSON ANTONIO MARTlN~. JR., P.A. WILLIAM G. McCULLOUGH JOSEPH r McSORLEY JOHN E. MEAGHER ARTHUR J. MENOR ROBERT D. MILLER ALAN I M ISHAEL C. RICHARD MORGAN TIMOTHY J MURPHY PHILLIP G. NEWCOMM, P.A. LOUIS NOSTRO JAMES M. O'CONNELL LISA 0 O'NEILL HAROLD E. PATRICOFF JR. STEPHEN L PERRONE, P.A. GEOFFREY RANDALL SALLY M RICHARDSON L1ZA RISO MARGARET A. ROlANDO P.A. RAU L J SALAS ROSEMARIE N. SANCERSON-SCH WRITER'S DIRECT LINE Re Tri-Rail Commuter Rail Station at Quantum Par Dear Tambri ROBERT A. SAVill. P.A. ALFRED G. SM ITH WilLIAM F SMITH P.A. ROBERT C. SOMMERVilLE, P A. STEPHEN S. STALLINGS KAREN L. STETSON KIMARIE R. STRATOS. P.A. XAVI ER L SUAREZ ANDREW P TETZELI ROBERT E. VENNEY M THERESE VENTO BRENTON N. VER PLOEG. P.A BARBARA E. VICEVICH, P.A. ROBERT A. WAINGER. M.D. J. DONALD WA.SIL DANIEL J WEIDMANN ROBERT WEXLER JOHN B. WHITE. P.A. JAMES G. WilLARD SCOTT G. WILLIAMS LAWRENCE O. WINSON LETITIA E. WOOD, P.A. KENNETH W WRIGHT OF COUNSEL JORDAN BITTEL, P A. JOHN R. DAY P.A. ROD JONES MARSHALL J. LANGER. P.A. JON MILLS ill ill JUN 2 0 .. PLANNING AND ZONING DEPI On behalf of the owner, Quantum Associates, use approval is hereby requested for the proposed Tri-Rail Commuter Rail Station on a portion of Lot 90 in Quantum Corporate Park The legal description of the expanded commuter rail station is contained on the attached Exhibit "A" Two copies of the proposed Master Plan are being sent to you by overnight courier by Mr Joe Hadley of Craven Thompson & Associates, Inc , engineers for the Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority Pursuant to Section 7 E of Appendix "A" (Zoning) of the Code, please submit this use request for review by the Planning and Development Board at its meeting scheduled for 12, 1994 City City July Upon your review of the Master Plan, an administrative waiver of the peripheral greenbelt requirement set forth in Section 7 H (17) of Appendix A is also requested This provision requires a twenty-five (25) foot landscaped area on the East side of the "project area" As you will see from review of the Master Plan developed by Tri-Rail, the "project area" includes not only Tract 90 of Quantum Park, but also approximately sixty-five (65) feet of right-of-way East of Lot 90 and West of the existing railroad tracks Within this area Tri-Rai1 has proposed a landscape buffer of varying width but which probably averages no less than twenty- five (25) feet The size, location and nature of the landscape buffer is required by Tri -Rail to accommodate commuter safety, access and visibility concerns FLORIDA OFFICES KEY LARGO MIAMI ORLANDO WEST PALM BEACH EUROPEAN OFFICE AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS Ms Tambri Heyden June 17, 1994 Page 2 We believe an administrative waiver is appropriate because of the public use nature of the project and because there will, in fact, be a landscape buffer within the "project area" After closing of the sale from Quantum Associates to the Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority, there will be unity of title between the land purchased by Tri-Rail and the existing railroad right-of-way thereby allowing you to count the landscaped area to be constructed within the right-of-way as part of the "Project" Please confirm that an administrative variance is available in this circumstance It will avoid the cost and delay associated wi th review by the Board of Adjustment and facilitate a timely closing on the sale to the Tri-Rail Authority JGW/smw cc Carrie Parker, City Manager (via Federal Express) Andrew A Juster (Telecopy - 317/685-7222) Steven E Fivel, Esquire (Telecopy - 317/263-7038) Jeffrey Jackson, Director of Planning Tri-County Rail Authority (Telecopy - 305/763-1345) ORlANDO 70166.1 SMW DESCRIPTION A PARCEL OF LAND S:TUA 7E IN SECT10tj 'j 6, ....OW! :SH'P 45 SOJTh. Rf>':;~ 43 WEST, PALM BEACH CO, Ti, F _ORIDA, ALSC) SEING A PORT O:'~ JF TRACT 90 OF THE PLAT Of QUANTur~ PARK A T 80Y'J~or\; 3SACh, P I J PLAT NO 8, AS RECORDED ltJ PL,A. T BCOI<' 5'" . AT PAGES ; 96 At~D 1 97 G~- THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ?AU~ BEACLj CCUNTi, F -OR:OA, 8EI~ G tiGRE: PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED A.S FOL.LOWS BEGINNING AT THE N ORT~EAS'" CORNER OF SA!;) TI'~AC- 90, THEN CE SO J T-4 00.30'27" EAST, ALONG THE EAST LlNE OF SAID TRACT 90, SAID LINE ALSO BEING THE WEST LINE OF THE SEABOARD AU... FLORIDA RAIL-WA Y RIGHT-OF-WAY. A DISTANCE OF" 63232 FEET. THEr~CE SOUTri 86.35125" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 598 67 FEET, THENCE NOR7rl 03024'.35" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 54098 PEET TO A POINT O~ THE WEST Llt'-lE OF SAID TRACT 90, THENCE NORTH 210 57'58" EAST ALONG SAID WEST L/\JE OF TRACT 90, A DISTANCE OF 154 88 FEET TO A POINT Or--: THE NORTH lI~JE OF SAlD PLATa THENCE SOUTH 88tt 24'22" EAST ALONG SAm NORTH liNE, A DISTANCE OF 566 47 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING " ABOVE DESCRIBED PAReE!... OF LAND L Y!NG I"J THE CITY OF 80YNTO~~ BEACH, FLORIDA CONTAINS 9 200 ACRES t,,10RE OR LESS EXHIBIT A ~----------~---~-~-_. --- ACCESS EASEMENT DESCRIPT,ON A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE !~~ SECTiO\ 16, TOWNSHIP 45 SOUTH, RANGE 4.3 WEST, PALM BEACH COUNT (, F'LORiDA, ALSO 8E1NG A PORTlCN OF TRACTS 90 AND 91 OF THE PLAT OF QUANTUM PARK AT BOYNTON BEACH, P I D. PLAT NO 8. AS RECORI")FD iN PLAT 800K 57, AT PAGES 196 AND '97 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS BEGINNING A T THE SOUTHEAST CORl'-jER OF SAID TRACT 90; THE~~CE SOUTH 86- 35'25" WEST, ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID TRACT, SAID LINE ALSO BEING THE NORTH LINE OF TRACT 91, A DISTANCE OF 666 47 FEET, THENCE SOU TH 350 46'19't WEST, A 015T ANCE OF 38 76 FEET TO A POINT ON THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE TO THE SOUTHWEST HAvN A RADIUS OF 566 00 FEET Ar-~D Po CENTRAL ANGLE OF 10- 08'06" (A RADIAL LINE PASSING THROUGH SA.ID POINT BEARS ~JORTH 74057'15" EAST), SAID CURVE ALSO BEING THE NORTH RIGHT -OF -W.A,Y LINE OF HIGH RIDGE ROAD (TRACT C OF SAID PLA T), THENCE NORTHWESTERLY ALONG THE ARC OF SAID CURVE A DISTANCE OF 100 12 FEET TO A POINT ON A NON- TANGENT LINE, THENCE SOUTH 59'17'44" EAST, A DiSTANCE OF 2804 FEET TO A POINT ON A L!NE 50 FEE; ~JORTh OF AND PARALLEL WlTH THE SOUTH L1NE OF SAID TRAC~ 90; THE~JCE ~ORn1 861> 35'25" EAST, ALONG SAID PARALLEL LINE, A DISTANCE OF 699 02 FEET TO A POINT 01\ THE EAST liNE OF SAID TRACT 90, T~E\JCE SOUTH 00" 30'27" EAST, ALONG SAID EAST LINE, A DISTANCE or SO 06 rEET TO THE POINT OF BEG1NNIt\G ABOVE DESCRIBED PARCE'L OF L,\!','D ~ Yl"~G t. ~'HE cry OF SOY~JTON BEACH, FLOPIDA CONTAINS S 825 ACRES ~/IGF.'i- OR LESS