Environmental Advisory Board does not recommend approval of 2600 North Ocean Boulevard CCCL variance

The Boca Raton Environmental Advisory Board on Sept. 26 declined to recommend approval of a coastal construction control line (CCCL) variance for 2600 North Ocean Boulevard, after staff recommended approval subject to mitigation and neighbors urged denial over threats to sea turtles and the dune ecosystem.

Tamashbin Rahman, the city’s chief planner, told the board the 0.42‑acre site is entirely seaward of the established CCCL and that the current application is a rehearing of a proposal the city council denied in 2019 and that was later remanded by the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Rahman described the revised plan as a single‑family residence of about 6,931 square feet, roughly 38 feet tall, to be built on piles with a dune crossover, and said staff had incorporated conditions intended to reduce environmental impacts, including glazing limits, a sea turtle lighting plan, biennial tree‑pruning plans and dune restoration…