Planning board recommends approval for 760 Ponce mixed‑use project after two years of neighborhood revisions

The Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board recommended the City Commission approve a multi‑part proposal for a mixed‑use development at 760 Ponce de Leon Boulevard (Block 18, Flagler Street section) during its Sept. 17 meeting. The package included a small‑scale future land use map amendment, zoning map amendment, Planned Area Development (PAD) approval, and conditional uses (including a special location/architecture bonus) for a project that replaces an aging medical office and surface parking with a mixed‑use building, plaza and residential transition.

George Navarro, attorney for the applicant, said the project is the result of more than two years of engagement with immediate neighbors, and that the current plan reflects multiple design changes requested in neighborhood meetings. “This project will address many of those long standing issues,” Navarro told the board, highlighting a new publicly accessible 8,500‑square‑foot plaza, underground parking, two levels of parked medical office uses and a residential liner of four townhouse units facing Bovedilla to provide a buffer for adjacent…