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Commission adopts rules to allow adaptive reuse of historic places of worship over staff objections from one commissioner
Summary
The Delray Beach City Commission on Oct. 14 adopted zoning and comp‑plan amendments to allow limited adaptive reuse of historic places of worship into detached single‑family residences, subject to Historic Preservation Board review.
The Delray Beach City Commission on Oct. 14 adopted a series of changes to the comprehensive plan and the land-development regulations to allow adaptive reuse of historic places of worship in the Community Facility (CF) zoning district, including the possibility of converting such properties to detached single-family residences under narrowly defined conditions.
The amendments add policies to the Historic Preservation Element and Neighborhoods/Districts and Corridors Element of the city’s comprehensive plan and change CF zoning provisions to create a permitting path for adaptive reuse of historic places of worship. The code changes include development…
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