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Jupiter staff ask whether Center Street code should require — not just incentivize — historic design standards
Summary
Town planners previewed proposed changes to the Center Street redevelopment overlay, including converting some incentive-based standards into requirements, re-evaluating allowed building heights (currently up to about 50–60 feet in parts of the district) and revisiting front setbacks and parking to protect historic character.
At a public workshop, Stephanie Philburn, the town’s assistant director of planning, presented proposed edits to the Center Street/Alternate A1A redevelopment overlay and asked residents whether design standards should remain incentive-based or become mandatory. "We want to look at making it a requirement so that Center Street is different than Alternate A1A," Philburn said, outlining the overlay’s focus on front setbacks, landscape buffers and historic character.
Philburn explained that the district today allows building heights of roughly…
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