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Planning board backs Norton Museum expansion for City Commission while leaving two traffic/parking conditions unresolved
Summary
The West Palm Beach Planning Board voted unanimously to recommend the Norton Museum of Art’s major amendment to its community service plan development, advancing a larger Phase 2 and a new parking structure to the City Commission while deferring resolution of an on‑street parking requirement and a proposed one‑way traffic change to staff‑applicant talks or the Commission.
The West Palm Beach Planning Board voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that the City Commission consider a major amendment allowing the Norton Museum of Art to expand its galleries and build a partially structured parking garage, while leaving two disputed conditions unresolved for further review.
Harvey Oyer of Shutton Bowen, representing the Norton, told the board the project adds roughly 61,000 square feet to a previously approved Phase 2 — bringing the museum’s gross building area to about 233,000 square feet — and would include a drop‑off on Olive Avenue, reconfigured surface parking and a three‑story garage on the western parcel. Oyer asked the board to defer two contested conditions — a requirement to install parallel on‑street parking on Olive Avenue and a staff proposal to make Jefferson and Cranes Nest one‑way streets during events — so staff and the applicant could try to resolve…
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