Palm Beach Gardens council approves citywide mobility plan and first-reading of citywide mobility fee

Palm Beach Gardens — The City Council on April 3 approved on first reading an updated citywide mobility plan and a citywide mobility fee, and adopted findings of "extraordinary circumstances" that allow the city to set the fee at the fully calculated rate effective Aug. 5, 2025.

The mobility plan, which expands the city's 2019 plan to include lands west of the Beeline Highway, lists multimodal projects — sidewalks, shared-use paths, on-street bicycle lanes, transit studies and roadway improvements — that the city says will guide how new-development fees are invested. The council voted 5-0 on first reading of the ordinances after a presentation from city planning staff and the plan consultant.

The ordinance matters because it replaces the county-administered road impact process inside Palm Beach Gardens with a single city-administered mobility fee tied to an adopted list of improvements. City staff and the consultant said that change would allow mobility funds paid by new development to be…