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West Palm Beach amends zoning to let historic 'shotgun' houses be subdivided in Northwest neighborhood
Summary
The City Commission approved a text amendment letting the Historic Preservation Board grant dimensional exceptions that would enable subdivision of contributing shotgun houses into fee‑simple lots in the historic Northwest neighborhood, intended to preserve housing affordability and return derelict properties to use.
The West Palm Beach City Commission approved a zoning text amendment to give the Historic Preservation Board authority to grant special‑dimensional exemptions for contributing shotgun houses on parcels containing multiple historic structures in the Northwest residential historic district.
Leslie Olson, principal at District Planning Group representing the West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, told the commission the CRA bought a parcel with six shotgun houses at 610 Douglas Avenue and sought a way to rehabilitate and enable long‑term affordable, fee‑simple ownership for each small house. Olson said conventional zoning and the historic ordinance did not allow subdivision at the small lot sizes needed, and that an owner‑occupied,…
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