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Pembroke Park commission approves variance to lower building elevation for ECOS senior housing
Summary
The Town of Pembroke Park commission on Aug. 27 approved Resolution 2025-030, granting a variance that allows the ECOS Pembroke Park project to set the principal building finished floor at 10 feet NAVD and the accessory parking garage at 8.8 feet, instead of meeting the town's flood-elevation requirement.
The Town of Pembroke Park commission on Aug. 27 approved Resolution 2025-030, granting a variance that allows the ECOS Pembroke Park project to set the principal building finished floor at 10 feet NAVD and the accessory parking garage at 8.8 feet, instead of meeting the town's flood-elevation requirement. The motion passed by roll call vote with Mayor Jacobs, Vice Mayor Kashem, Commissioner Hodgkins, Acting Commissioner Morissette and Commissioner Mohammed all voting yes.
The variance affects a 10-story senior housing development proposed by McDowell Housing Partners on a parcel described in the hearing as generally located at the northeast corner of Southwest 50 Sixth Avenue and Southwest 40 First Street on County Line Road. Town staff and the applicant said the site is in FEMA Flood Zone X and that Broward County had approved the project's surface-water management design.
The variance request and the town attorney's statement put the central legal question on the record: the town code requires base-floor elevation to be 18 inches above the highest crown of the adjacent road. The…
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