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Planning and Zoning Board approves 19,320‑square‑foot golf maintenance building at Boca Raton Resort
Summary
The Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board on Dec. 4 approved site‑plan and easement abandonment requests for a new 19,320 sq ft, one‑story golf maintenance facility at 501 E. Camino Real, with unanimous board support and conditions reviewed by city staff.
The Planning and Zoning Board unanimously approved a site plan and partial utility‑easement abandonment for a new golf maintenance facility at the Boca Raton Resort and Club, 501 East Camino Real.
The board’s senior planner, Owen Devlin of Development Services, told members the application by Boca Owner, LLC seeks approval to redevelop roughly 2.7 acres for a one‑story maintenance building of about 19,320 square feet, with a maximum height of 25 feet, 28 new surface parking spaces, and reconfiguration of an internal private street. The proposal also requests vacation of part of a 12‑foot utility easement that contains active lines; Devlin said new easements and continued water service will be provided as needed and that Development Services determined the plan meets applicable criteria and recommended approval.
“Development Services has determined that the site plan approval meets all the applicable criteria,” Devlin told the board. He said the application does not increase on‑site vehicle trips and that the maintenance operations are being relocated, not expanded.
Christina Balenke, the applicant’s representative from Misko Backman, described the relocation as part of a broader multi‑year investment by Boca Owner, LLC to renovate resort operations and amenities. She said the relocated maintenance building will be screened from view, store vehicles and equipment indoors, and include a landscape debris area rather than visible outdoor storage.
“We’re proposing to shift that to a back‑of‑house area where you have the employee parking garage currently … everything related to maintenance will be enclosed within that facility,” Balenke said, summarizing the intent to screen operations from resort guests and neighbors.
Board members asked whether the building footprint represented a new structure (Balenke: it is a new roughly 19,000 sq ft building adjacent to the garage), whether nearby residential neighbors had been engaged (Balenke: the applicant engaged Meisner Grand, the closest community, and described that outreach as supportive), and whether the project would affect flooding. Balenke said drainage had been accounted for and that the project is going through the city’s PWR process with city engineers reviewing drainage plans.
“It is not intended to impact flooding. Drainage has all been accounted for,” Balenke said.
After brief discussion the chair closed the public hearing and the board voted on the motion to approve the site plan and easement abandonment. Karen (clerk) read the roll call: Morgan and Dorn Blazer were recorded as in favor, followed by recorded affirmative votes from Miss McDearmon, Mister Mitchell, Mister Matthews, Mister Mirabel and the chair; the clerk declared the approval unanimous.
The board’s action authorizes the Planning and Zoning Board’s final action on the site plan and associated resolution as read into the record; no effective date or appeal period was specified during the meeting. The board adjourned at 6:17 p.m.
