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Planning board recommends facade changes, setback waiver for Palm Beach Atlantic parking garage
Summary
The West Palm Beach Planning Board unanimously recommended that the City Commission approve a major amendment to Palm Beach Atlantic University's approved dorm/garage project, reducing the garage from 11 to 8.5 levels, approving a campus-themed decorative facade and granting a limited setback waiver along South Dixie Highway so decorative support columns can be placed within the landscaped strip, provided the change does not increase the current garage budget.
Palm Beach Atlantic University asked the West Palm Beach Planning Board on Aug. 19 to approve a minor amendment to the university's previously approved dorm and parking garage project, and the board recommended approval to the City Commission.
The board voted unanimously to recommend reducing the garage from 11 levels to 8.5 levels, to approve a revised decorative facade treatment that includes a Christian "ichthys" (Jesus fish) geometric element, and to grant a waiver for limited encroachment of support columns into the required eight-foot setback along South Dixie Highway, subject to conditions that the north and south facades receive extended treatment so long as the change does not increase the garage budget.
Why it matters: The garage sits on Dixie Highway in a visible public right-of-way;…
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