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Vero Beach council approves waterfront rezoning and museum expansion, denies large lien reduction; discusses RV/boat code and boardwalk shortfall
Summary
The Vero Beach City Council on Tuesday voted 5-0 to approve rezoning for the 3 Corners waterfront redevelopment and to advance a museum lease amendment that will allow the Vero Beach Museum of Art to raise and rebuild its facility; the council denied a $54,149 lien-reduction request tied to sea‑turtle lighting violations and debated enforcement of boat and recreational-vehicle parking rules.
The Vero Beach City Council on Tuesday voted 5-0 to approve a sweeping rezoning of the city’s 3 Corners waterfront redevelopment site and separately approved a long-planned lease amendment and site plan that will let the Vero Beach Museum of Art raise and rebuild its facility. The council also denied a request to reduce a $54,149 code-enforcement lien against the Village Spires condominium association and spent substantial time reviewing enforcement and possible revisions to rules restricting boats and recreational vehicles in residential driveways.
The council’s actions came during a meeting that combined second readings of ordinances and multiple administrative approvals. All formal votes recorded a unanimous 5-0 roll call (Councilmembers Voss, Dingle, Carroll, Vice Mayor Moore and Mayor Catugno).
The rezoning vote affected roughly three parcels in the former power plant/sewer-plant area described in the agenda packet as the 3 Corners waterfront site. Staff described the measure as the second of two hearings required for a map amendment and said revisions requested at the first hearing were incorporated into a revised ordinance in the council packet. The ordinance’s text on the record identified parcel acreages included in the rezoning: one parcel of about 17.38 acres and another of about 16.34 acres; the ordinance also established several new mixed-use “TC” zoning subdistricts and development standards for the area. Planning Director Jason Jeffries told the council the matter had been presented at an earlier hearing and staff summarized the changes in a memo in the packet. No public speakers opposed the rezoning during the quasi-judicial hearing and the council approved it after the required roll call.
The museum lease amendment moved forward after a staff and museum presentation. Brady Roberts, executive director of the Vero Beach Museum of Art, told the council the museum now…
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