Westgate Community Redevelopment Agency leaders asked the Planning Commission to transmit a comprehensive‑plan text amendment to increase the WCRAO (Westgate Community Redevelopment Area Overlay) bonus density pool by 3,000 units.

Elize (Elaise) Michel, director for the Westgate CRA, and Denise Pinnell, the CRA’s planning director, presented the proposal. They said the amendment would replenish and increase the bonus pool to support redevelopment across the CRA’s 1,300‑acre district and to accelerate housing production, including workforce units. The request is intended to reduce the need for individual future‑land‑use amendments by making bonus density available in targeted density clusters along arterials and near transit.

Staff and the CRA presenters described the planned redevelopment of the Palm Beach Kennel Club site (42 acres) as a primary trigger for the request. The presentation said the bonus pool originally started at 300 units, was increased to 1,300 in 2005, and that under current projections roughly 3,970 bonus units are forecast across a 20‑year horizon; CRA staff proposed a net increase of 3,000 units to a total the presenters stated as 4,300 units in the pool.

The CRA said projects that use the density bonus must meet workforce‑housing obligations in the ULDC (Unified Land Development Code): for projects with more than 10 bonus units, 20% of bonus‑eligible units must be workforce housing (10% lower‑income, 10% moderate‑income).

One public commenter, Alex Holiday of Frisbie Group (partnering with Terra Group), spoke in support and said his team is working on the Kennel Club site and supports the increase to meet housing demand and encourage transit‑oriented redevelopment.

Commissioners asked about TIF funding, traffic and stormwater mitigation, and how the pool would be assigned across subareas; CRA staff said projects are reviewed for concurrency, can use existing TIF and other incentives, and the pool is allocated to subareas but can be assigned to specific projects within ULDC limits. The commission voted unanimously to recommend approval and forward the amendment for Board of County Commissioners consideration.