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Planning board approves amendment to Boca Technology Center DRI to remove Tri-Rail parcel
Summary
On April 17, 2025, the Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board voted 5–0 to approve an amendment to the Boca Technology Center Development of Regional Impact, removing a 6.6-acre Tri-Rail parcel at 680 Yamato Road and updating Master Plan Map H-1; staff said the change is consistent with the comprehensive plan and recommended approval.
On April 17, 2025, the Planning and Zoning Board of the City of Boca Raton approved an amendment to the Boca Technology Center Development of Regional Impact (DRI) that reduces the DRI area by 6.6 acres by removing a parcel at 680 Yamato Road, a portion of the Tri-Rail Station property. The board approved the amendment in a 5–0 roll call vote.
The item, read into the record by the clerk, would change Master Plan Map H-1 to reflect a reduction in total acreage from approximately 224.44 acres to approximately 217.84 acres. Peter Begovich of the Development Services Department told the board that removing the 6.6-acre parcel eliminates the intermodal node designation and associated access to Yamato Road and about 20,000 square feet of transit-oriented retail from the master plan, but that the Tri-Rail station and its driveway have already been constructed and will remain in place.
Begovich said that the proposed amendment changes the DRI’s open space figure from 13.88 acres to 13.7 acres, a reduction of 0.18 acres, and that staff’s analysis found the amendment consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the city’s comprehensive plan. “The Development Services Department recommends approval, and that completes my presentation,” Begovich said.
The staff presentation recapped the DRI’s history: the city purchased land within the Blue Lake DRI in 2000, renaming it the Boca Technology Center DRI; the property has since accommodated the former IBM campus (now the Boca Raton Innovation Campus), Boca Village, The Shops at Blue Lake, Centra townhomes and the Tri-Rail station. Begovich also noted that a previously approved conditional intermodal node master plan and related phase 2 approvals were not constructed and their approvals expired.
City documents and the staff presentation also noted that a City Council approval for a commercial industrial multifamily development (CIMD) on the Tri-Rail property is expressly contingent on adoption of a resolution removing the property from the DRI within one year of that resolution’s adoption.
Applicant representative David Milledge introduced himself and said he had no additional comments beyond staff’s presentation and would answer questions if needed. The chair opened the public hearing; no members of the public spoke.
Votes at a glance - Motion to approve minutes of March 20, 2025: approved (ayes recorded; no opposition noted). - Motion to approve minutes of April 3, 2025: approved (ayes recorded; no opposition noted). - Resolution to amend the Boca Technology Center DRI (remove 6.6-acre parcel at 680 Yamato Road): approved by roll call (Mister Morgan: yes; Miss McDermott: yes; Mister Mitchell: yes; Miss Ritchie: yes; Chair Seville: yes). The clerk recorded five affirmative votes and the motion carried.
The board completed the item with no public testimony and no further discussion; the meeting adjourned at approximately 6:10 p.m.
