Delray Beach board approves site plan for Delray Dermatology at 802 Southeast Fifth Avenue

The City of Delray Beach Site Plan Review and Appearance Board on Sept. 24 approved a Level 2 site plan for a two-story, roughly 12,000-square-foot medical office building with a small retail bay at 802 Southeast Fifth Avenue, finding the proposal consistent with local land-development regulations and the comprehensive plan.

Julian Gudanik, senior planner in Development Services, entered into the record file number 20204254 and described the project as a Level 2 site plan for an approximately 12,000-square-foot commercial development with primarily medical office uses and about 900 square feet of retail on the ground floor. Gudanik told the board staff corrected a scribe error in the staff report that had incorrectly listed the proposed land use as “multifamily,” saying, “That’s obviously not the case, so I apologize for that error.”

The applicant, represented by architect Randall Stoft of Randall Stoft Architects, said the project is intended as a single-user building for Delray Dermatology and the Lewis family, which currently operates in the area. Stoft said the design hides a ground-floor garage behind active uses on Southeast Fifth Avenue and creates a small civic open space at the corner. “Our intention is the blue,” he said when the board asked which façade color should be approved, referring to a discrepancy in submitted renderings.

Board members voted to approve the site plan, landscape plan and a landscape waiver that would reduce the depth of a required parallel parking island from the 22-foot standard to 16 feet 4 inches so the applicant could retain a fifth on-street parking space. The motion as…