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Boca Raton staff preview rezoning, design and traffic review steps for downtown government campus
Summary
City staff asked the council to approve regulatory changes and form-based design rules to concentrate existing downtown entitlements near the new transit station and to require multimodal traffic mitigation; council set February 2026 as the target for key decisions.
Brandon Shadd, the city’s development services director, told the Boca Raton City Council at a Dec. 15 workshop that staff plans a package of comprehensive-plan amendments, DDRI boundary adjustments and land-development regulations the council could consider in February 2026 as part of the proposed downtown government campus project.
Shadd said the effort would not create new citywide development capacity but would reallocate existing downtown “office-equivalent” (OE) entitlements into subarea A — the block east of Northwest 2nd Avenue near the Brightline station — so development rights are concentrated near transit. He gave the current accounting: roughly 8,000,000 OE square feet were originally allocated downtown, about 725,000 OE remain citywide, pending projects would use roughly 160,000 OE,…
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