The Palm Beach County Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval of a rezoning and a class A conditional use for West End Crossing, a proposed multi-use plan development on nearly 6 acres at the southeast corner of Northlake Boulevard and Seminole Pratt Whitney Road.

Jeanne Duscher of Cutler and Hearing presented the application for West End Crossing LLC and Brock Development Group. The proposal seeks rezoning from Agricultural Residential to Multiple Use Plan Development (MUPD) and a class A conditional use for retail gas and fuel sales with a convenience store (six pumps, a roughly 4,800-square-foot convenience building), plus two additional permitted buildings for retail and medical office uses.

"This is a logical development to serve a service gap in the area," Duscher said, noting recent and planned residential approvals nearby (Avenir, Westlake, GL Homes) and a substantial population increase in the Acreage since the original neighborhood plans were prepared. She said the applicant revised the site plan after community meetings to add a bermed 8-foot wall, increase landscape buffers, relocate service doors and dumpsters away from neighbors, and adjust building orientation.

County staff (Nancy Frontani, Zoning Division) confirmed the site is 5.93 acres and that the rezoning application runs concurrently with a future land-use amendment; she noted that staff received more than 350 emails on the application and recommended approval subject to the conditions listed in the staff report. Frontani explained the rezoning is contingent on the Board of County Commissioners’ action on the companion future land-use amendment.

Duscher highlighted fuel safety and operations: the convenience-store operator would be corporate 7-Eleven with double-walled underground tanks, 24/7 monitoring and routine inspections. The applicant also said the project would connect to a county regional retention pond under construction to handle drainage.

Commissioners asked procedural and compatibility questions; no members of the public signed up to speak at the zoning hearing. A motion to recommend approval passed and will be forwarded with staff conditions to the Board of County Commissioners. If the BCC denies the companion future land-use amendment when it is considered, the rezoning would not be effective.

Ending: The zoning commission’s recommendation advances to the Board of County Commissioners, with staff conditions and public correspondence on record; the BCC will consider the future land-use amendment and the zoning package together.