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DDA recommends strict limits on standalone tobacco and vape shops downtown
Summary
Delray Beach DDA voted to back an amendment to the city's land-development rules to limit standalone tobacco and nicotine product dealers downtown, recommending a moratorium or ban for core retail streets and new spacing limits citywide.
The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority on Feb. 10 recommended that the city limit standalone retail tobacco and nicotine-product dealers downtown, including a proposal to prohibit the businesses on core retail frontages such as Atlantic Avenue and Second Avenue in the DDA district.
Development Services planner Rebecca Dossery told the board the draft amendment would prohibit window displays of tobacco products, set a 750-foot separation between standalone shops and an additional 300-foot buffer from residential zoning, schools, parks, day cares and places of worship. "We have more retail tobacco providers than a downtown actually needs," Dossery said, adding the amendment seeks to limit concentration that is changing the retail mix in the central business district.
Why it matters: Board members said vape and smoke shops have…
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