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Boca Raton planning board denies Walsh family request to reduce rear pool setback

3693457 · June 5, 2025
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Summary

The Planning & Zoning Board denied a variance request to allow a 7-foot rear pool setback instead of the required 10 feet for a home at 77 Southeast Olive Way. Staff had recommended denial; the motion failed 1–6.

The City of Boca Raton Planning & Zoning Board on June 5 denied a variance request from the Walsh family to reduce the rear-yard pool setback from 10 feet to 7 feet at 77 Southeast Olive Way.

Pam Kitchen, a zoning officer for the city, told the board the applicant sought a three-foot variance to construct a new pool on a 0.16-acre lot in the R1C single-family district. Kitchen said the lot's trapezoid shape “significantly restricts the available space for…

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