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Commission recommends rezoning for West End Crossing, a mixed‑use site with proposed gas station; final land‑use vote pending
Summary
The Zoning Commission recommended approval of a rezoning and class A conditional use to allow a mixed‑use plan development and retail fuel sales at the Southeast corner of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road and Northlake Boulevard; the approval is contingent on a concurrent future land‑use amendment before the Board of County Commissioners.
The Palm Beach County Zoning Commission voted Thursday to recommend approval of a rezoning from Agricultural Residential (AR) to a Multiple Use Planned Development (MUPD) and a class A conditional use to allow retail fuel sales with a convenience store at the Southeast corner of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road and Northlake Boulevard (West End Crossing).
Applicant Jeanne Duscher of Kotler & Hearing presented the site as just under six acres and said the plan includes a convenience store with fueling, a retail/medical building and two smaller permitted retail or office uses. Duscher said the project team selected a corporate convenience‑store operator (7‑Eleven corporate) to meet rural‑design objectives and that the design includes porches, metal roofs and parapet walls to blend with the neighborhood.
Duscher told the commission the neighborhood’s population has grown substantially since the acreage neighborhood plan and Western Northlake Corridor study were adopted in the 1990s and 2000s, and that recent and planned residential developments (Avenir, Westlake, Geo Homes and others) have increased demand for nearby commercial services.
The applicant described multiple mitigations intended to reduce impacts to properties south of the site, including an eight‑foot wall on a berm, expanded landscaping buffers, placement of service doors and dumpsters along the north property line, and orientation of fueling areas away from adjacent homes. Jeanne Duscher said the convenience store would be corporate‑operated with double‑walled tanks, 24‑hour monitoring and routine inspections.
Staff noted the rezoning is running concurrently with a future land‑use amendment to change the site’s designation from Rural Residential (1 unit per 2.5 acres) to Commercial Low; the zoning commission’s recommendation is contingent on the Board of County Commissioners approving that future land‑use amendment. Nancy Frantini of the zoning division presented key site details and said staff recommended approval subject to the conditions listed in the staff report. Frantini said staff had received more than 350 emails on the application and that engineering and drainage plans tie into a county retention pond under construction east of the site.
Commissioners moved and seconded a recommendation to approve the MUPD rezoning and the class A conditional use; no public comment cards were submitted at the zoning hearing. The record notes the final decision on the future land‑use amendment and any rezoning will be made by the Board of County Commissioners at its upcoming agenda.
The applicant and staff told the commission that the intersection and adjacent roads are undergoing capacity upgrades and that commercial services within a three‑mile radius are limited relative to some neighboring communities, supporting the applicant’s argument for the site’s commercial need.
