Planning board backs 155-unit Breakers employee housing project near Mangonia Lake

The West Palm Beach Planning Board on July 15 recommended that the City Commission approve a future land use change and rezoning for a 2.4-acre site on North Australian Avenue to allow a 155-unit multifamily development that the applicant said will include a workforce housing component reserved for Breakers employees. The project team and city staff told the board the proposal would consolidate three contiguous parcels — about 1.2 acres owned by VDG Land Co. on the north and 1.2 acres owned by the city on the south — and convert the whole site to an MF‑32 zoning designation and multifamily future land use. The developer’s representative, Tyler Woolsey of Urban Design Studio, said the development will be strictly residential, include 155 dwelling units and that 51% of the units — 79 units — “will be workforce…