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Margate board denies parking variance for 5600 Lakeside Drive conversion
Summary
The Margate Planning & Zoning Board voted to deny a request to reduce required parking and waive landscape requirements at 5600 Lakeside Drive, a former assisted living facility the applicant sought to convert to market-rate apartments.
The City of Margate Planning & Zoning Board on Oct. 14 denied a variance request to reduce required parking, waive perimeter and interior landscape-island requirements, and allow changes to an existing nonconforming parking lot at 5600 Lakeside Drive.
Staff told the board the application did not meet the statutory variance criteria and recommended denial. “So with that, staff is recommending denial,” Andrew Penny, senior planner for the City of Margate, said during the hearing.
The application, filed as item ID 2025-284 (variance application 25-400057), sought permission to reduce required parking by 131 spaces — a 34% reduction from the number the city code would require for the proposed apartment mix — and to alter landscape-buffer and interior-island dimensions that would otherwise limit the number of parking stalls.
The applicant’s attorney, Matthew H. Scott, said the owner had invested in the site and that converting the long-term care facility to multifamily housing would support…
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