Planning board recommends denial of Paddock RV resort land‑use and site‑plan package

The Town of Loxahatchee Groves Planning & Zoning Board, sitting also as the Local Planning Agency, on a 4–1 vote recommended denial of a five‑part application from the applicant for a project called "The Paddock," a proposed motor‑coach resort on about 47 acres north of Southern Boulevard and east of Sea Road.

The package before the board included a comprehensive plan text amendment to create a new future‑land‑use category called "rural recreation," a comprehensive plan map amendment to apply that new designation to the subject parcel, a text amendment to the Unified Land Development Code to create implementing zoning and use rules, a rezoning of the parcel to the new district, and a site plan for a resort with up to 272 RV sites and 16 park‑owned units. Board members voted to recommend denial of the legislative items and the implementing quasi‑judicial items; each motion carried 4–1.

The applicant, represented primarily by Gabe (developer) and a consultant team from J. Morton Planning and Landscape Architecture, Simmons & White and others, described the project as an "exclusive motor coach resort" with high‑end amenities. Lauren McClellan, director of planning at J. Morton, told the board the new future‑land‑use would allow a maximum of eight RVs per acre and a maximum FAR of 0.08; the site plan presented proposed 272 spaces, two…