REVIEW COMMENTS
DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
PLANNING AND ZONING DIVISION
MEMORANDUM NO. PZ 06-052
TO:
Chair and Members
Planning & Development Board and City Commission
FROM:
Michael Rumpf
Director of Planning and Zoning
Ed Breese ~
Principal Planner
THRU:
DATE:
March 15/ 2006
PROJECf:
Neptune Commerce Center / SPTE 06-003
REQUEST:
Site Plan Time Extension
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Property Owner: Pelican Estates, Inc.
Applicant / Agent: William Wietsma of William Wietsma Company, Inc.
Location: South side of Neptune Drive, approximately 1/300 feet east of
South Congress Avenue (see Exhibit "A" - Location Map)
Existing Land Use/ Zoning: Industrial (I) / Light Industrial (M-1)
Proposed Land Use/Zoning: No change proposed
Proposed Uses:
Request new site plan approval for a 16/482 square foot industrial building on
a 0.969-acre parcel.
Acreage:
0.969-acres
Adjacent Uses:
North:
Right-of-way for Neptune Drive, then farther north developed industrial property
(Advanced Fabricators) zoned Light Industrial (M-1);
South:
Developed industrial property (Bethesda Service Center) zoned Light Industrial
(M-1);
East:
Developed industrial property (office/warehouses complex) zoned Light
Industrial (M-1); and
West:
Developed industrial property (Finnish Granite) zoned Light Industrial (M-1).
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Memorandum No. PZ 06-052
BACKGROUND
Mr. William Wietsma, agent for Pelican Estates, Inc, is requesting a one (I)-year time extension for Neptune
Commerce Park Site Plan Development Order (NWSP 05-006) which was approved by the City Commission on
March 1, 2005. The site plan approval is valid for one (1) year from the date of approval, unless a building
permit has been issued or a time extension applied for. If this request for extension were approved, the
expiration date of this site plan, including concurrency certification would be extended to March 1, 2007.
According to the original site plan staff report, Neptune Commerce Park was approved to construct a 16,482
square foot industrial building on a 0.969-acre parcel. The proposed one-story industrial building would be
separated into five (5) individual bays, each with a small office and mezzanine, and a total of approximately
3,200 square feet.
ANALYSIS
According to Chapter 4, Section 5 of the Land Development Regulations, "the applicant shall have one (1)
year to secure a building permit from the Development Department". Examples of building permits include
but are not limited to the following: Plumbing, electrical, mechanical, foundation, and structural. The
Regulations authorize the City Commission to approve one (1) year time extensions, provided that the
applicant files the request prior to the expiration date of the development order. In this case, the applicant
has met that requirement. The Planning & Zoning Division received the application for time extension on
February 15, 2006, which is 14 days before the expiration date of the site plan approval.
According to the time extension application, Mr. Wietsma indicates that they are nearly complete with the
architectural and engineering drawings and that they have applied to the Lake Worth Drainage District for
necessary approvals. However, due to a number of factors, including Hurricane Wilma and the resulting
construction labor and material shortages, they are requesting a one (1) year time extension to gain the
necessary permits and begin construction in a better economic and business climate.
Also, a more formal criterion for evaluating requests for time extensions is compliance with concurrency
requirements. Traffic concurrency was approved with a build-out date of 2005 and no building permits are to
be issued by the City for this project after the 2005 build-out date. Since the applicant has not obtained
building permits for this project, a revised traffic study will be required to be submitted and approved by the
County (see Exhibit "C" - Conditions of Approval). As for utilities, records indicate the utility reservation fee
has not yet been paid, therefore the related condition of approval still stands. The site plan time extension
would still be subject to the original 28 conditions of site plan approval. Lastly, no new land development
regulations are now in place against which the project should be reviewed and modified.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends approval of this request for a (I)-year time extension of the site plan (NWSP 05-006). If
this request for extension were approved, the expiration date of this site plan, including concurrency
certification would be extended to March 1, 2007. If this request for site plan time extension is approved, all
conditions of approval from the original site plan must still be satisfactorily addressed during the building
permit process.
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. EXHIBIT A
Neptutfe Commerce benter
Site Plan Approval
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EXHIBIT B -
William Wietsma Company, Ine
578 Palm Way, Gulf Stream, Fl. 33483
561/441-8276 Fax 266-5915
FEB I 5 200b
February 8, 2006
Ed Breese, Principal Planner
City of Boynton Beach
Planning & Zoning Division
100 E. Boynton Beach, Fl. 33425
Re: Neptune Commerce Center
Dear Mr. Breese:
Due to several factors, including Hurricane Wilma and the resulting construction labor and material
shortages, we are formally requesting a time extension of one year to submit construction documents and
apply for a building permit for the above mentioned project. We have nearly completed all of the
architectural and engineering drawings, and applied to the Lake Worth Drainage District for their approval.
We hope t6 be in a position to proceed with this project in the near future and would hope that the City
would be kind enough to grant this extension request. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
EXHIBIT "e"
Conditions of Approval
Project name: Neptune Commerce Center
File number: SPTE 06-003
Reference:
I DEPARTMENTS I INCLUDE I REJECT I
PUBLIC WORKS- General
Comments: None
PUBLIC WORKS- Traffic
Comments: None
UTILITIES
Comments: None
FIRE
Comments: None
POLICE
Comments: None
ENGINEERING DIVISION
Comments: None
BUILDING DIVISION
Comments: None
PARKS AND RECREATION
Comments: None
FORESTER/ENVIRONMENTALIST
Comments: None
PLANNING AND ZONING
Comments:
1. All previous Conditions of Approval as set forth in the original site plan
approval (NWSP 05-006) remain in effect.
Conditions of Approval
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DEPARTMENTS INCLUDE REJECT
2. Prior to issuance of permit, provide updated traffic concurrency approval
letter from Palm Beach County Traffic Engineering.
ADDITIONAL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT BOARD CONDITIONS
Comments:
To be determined.
ADDITIONAL CITY COMMISSION CONDITIONS
Comments:
To be determined.
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