Seaford council approves revised Seaford Town Center plan with waivers for denser riverfront housing

Seaford Mayor and Council voted unanimously June 24 to approve a revised preliminary site plan for the Seaford Town Center, a multi‑parcel riverfront redevelopment that would replace a 2015 office‑and‑hotel concept with primarily multifamily housing, a riverfront restaurant and two commercial spaces.

The council's approval includes six waivers from the city's C‑3 zoning standards: a reduced parking ratio (from the code's 3 spaces per apartment to 1.5), an increase in allowed units per acre (from 25 to 64), a building height waiver (from 50 feet to up to 70 feet where requested), relief to allow dwelling units over parking rather than over commercial space in some buildings, a rear‑yard setback waiver for Building B and permission for parking or drive aisles to encroach over the city property line (to be addressed by easement).

The plan presented by developer David Perlmutter and his team shows 194 apartments across multiple buildings, a ground‑floor riverfront restaurant and two commercial storefronts facing High Street. Perlmutter told council the project shifts from the 2015 plan — which showed 32,000 square feet of retail, 61,000 square feet of office, 43 apartments and a 100‑room hotel — to a…