Pompano Beach zoning board denies special exception for Luminess Care transitional residence after staff and neighbors cite violations and call volumes

The Pompano Beach Zoning Board of Appeals on Aug. 21, 2025 denied a special exception requested by Luminess Care to operate a transitional community residence at the property identified in staff materials as 2500 Northeast Nineteenth Street. The denial followed staff recommendations to reject the application, testimony from code compliance, public safety officials, and multiple neighbors describing ongoing disturbances, and a unanimous roll‑call vote against the motion to approve.

City staff presented the special‑exception application (PNZ case 25‑17000008) and flagged multiple deficiencies: two open code enforcement cases tied to the property, an active lien, an extensive 911/BSO call log and a Fire Rescue/EMS incident log included in the agenda backup. Staff said the application lacked supporting documentation required by the city’s review standards governing transitional community residences — specifically evidence demonstrating normalization and community integration, state licensure or equivalent operational standards, staffing and training protocols, and measures to avoid clustering of similar uses.

Mario Sotelongo, the city’s code compliance director, described open…