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Council approves first-reading of Groves at Town Center master-plan swap for hotel, park amid traffic and tree-preservation debate
Summary
The council approved on first reading a master-plan amendment that swaps a proposed assisted-living facility site for a hotel and shifts the public-park parcel; council and residents pressed the developer on traffic fixes and saving an oak hammock, and the vote passed 3-2.
The Town of Loxahatchee Groves Town Council on Jan. 7 voted 3-2 on first reading to amend the Groves at Town Center planned-unit development to replace a previously approved 128-bed assisted-living facility with a hotel and to swap locations of the public town-commons parcel and the hotel site.
The vote moves the project forward to second reading, when the council will consider two site plans tied to the rezoning and comprehensive-plan text changes. Council members who backed the amendment said the swap places hotel uses closer to Southern Boulevard and the town commons farther north, nearer the equestrian trail.
The amendment is significant because it changes allowed uses and shifts development closer to the busy Southern Boulevard corridor. Town planner Caitlin Forbes told the council that "the applicant is removing the development allowance for the 128 bed ALF and is replacing it with the hotel use" and that the amendment…
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