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Planning board approves car wash at 525 West Pembroke Road with 8 a.m. opening, 10 p.m. closing
Summary
The Hallandale Beach Planning & Zoning Board approved a conditional use permit and a variance allowing an automated car wash at 525 West Pembroke Road, with operational limits and landscaping conditions after staff and resident concerns about traffic and residential impacts.
The Hallandale Beach Planning & Zoning Board on a unanimous vote approved a conditional use permit (CU2503650) and a variance (VA2503651) that will allow an automated car wash and attendant vacuum spaces at 525 West Pembroke Road.
The applications seek conditional-use approval under the Pembroke Road subdistrict rules and a variance from a 1,500-foot separation requirement for auto-related businesses in Table 32-160a. Christy Dominguez, planning and zoning manager, told the board the property is approximately 0.92 acres, the proposed building would be about 3,867 square feet, and the site plan provides 14 vacuum parking spaces and five parking spaces required by code. She said the project includes an eight-foot masonry screen wall along the south property line and that the landscaping plan proposes 40 trees where 27 are required.
The applicant, land use attorney Rachel Stryfeld, said the car wash will be an automated, membership-based operation with water-reclamation equipment and no fuel or convenience-store component. “Our operational hours are proposed 8AM to 8PM,” Stryfeld said, and she told the board the owner would accept a closure time of 10 p.m. She said the queue for the tunnel stacks 22 cars and that a traffic study prepared by KBP Consulting found no negative effect on level-of-service standards at Pembroke Road.
Resident Arman Jevorkian spoke against the application, saying the nearby intersection and Sixth Avenue are already heavily congested and that the site backs up to a residential neighborhood with elderly residents and children. “Even without the car wash, it’s enough traffic already there,” Jevorkian said.
City traffic consultant Michael Miller told the board that Broward County and the Florida Department of Transportation opposed a curb cut on Pembroke Road; the project’s ingress and egress were therefore designed on Northwest Sixth Avenue. Miller estimated the applicant’s observed peak queue at other local sites was about 12 cars and said the planned 22-car stacking capacity should be adequate. He said the constrained corridor and lack of median on Pembroke Road limit curb-cut options and reduce the risk of new cut-through movements.
The board added a proffered condition that the business open no earlier than 8 a.m.; the applicant agreed to that proffer. Other conditions the board required or discussed during the hearing included dedication of two feet of right-of-way on Pembroke Road, execution of a unity of title prior to a building permit, a restriction on hours (no operations past 10 p.m.), the required screen wall with intensified landscaping, and compliance with the water-reclamation measures described in the civil engineering plans.
Votes at the meeting were recorded as unanimous by the board. The variance (VA2503651) and the conditional use (CU2503650) were both approved with the conditions noted above.
The applicant was asked to continue dialogue with nearby residents to address ongoing concerns as site construction and operations proceed.
