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Board recommends city amend rules to allow adaptive reuse of historic places of worship as single‑family residences
Summary
The Historic Preservation Board recommended ordinances to amend the comprehensive plan and land‑development regulations to permit single‑family adaptive reuse of historic places of worship in CF zoning, limited to the historic structure and subject to preservation standards.
The Delray Beach Historic Preservation Board voted to recommend City Commission approval of two related measures to allow adaptive reuse of historic places of worship as single‑family residences within community‑facility (CF) zoning, provided the historic structure is preserved and any modifications comply with the city’s historic‑preservation standards.
Planner Rebecca Dossery and applicant representative Jeff Costello described the changes as narrowly tailored: the comprehensive‑plan text amendment would add policy support for adaptive reuse of historic places of worship as residential uses; the LDR amendment…
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