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Loxahatchee Groves advisory group debates 'equestrian estate' overlay for larger parcels
Summary
Advisory members and residents discussed a proposal to create an 'equestrian estate' overlay that would allow larger accessory and caretaker dwellings on 10‑acre-plus parcels. Board members asked staff to compile code guidance, the Right to Farm Act text and parcel examples; no zoning changes were adopted.
Members of an advisory body in the Town of Loxahatchee Groves spent the meeting weighing a proposal to create an "equestrian estate" zoning overlay that would allow larger accessory dwellings, caretaker or groom quarters and planned residential compounds on larger parcels, but took no formal land‑use action.
The proposal, offered by a resident, suggested allowing the overlay only on 10‑acre or larger tracts and including design requirements such as setbacks, buffers and unity‑of‑title controls to prevent later subdivision. "One thing that we have a really bad habit of doing in this town is perpetuating a culture of breaking the rules," the resident said while urging the board to create a legal pathway for estate development that would be both attractive and enforceable.
Staff and a planning advisor said many of…
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