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Boca Raton council opens review of CIMD text amendment as residents warn of traffic and school impacts
Summary
Council members heard a presentation and community comment on proposed amendments to the CIMD ordinance that could allow RB‑1 parcels of at least 20 contiguous acres to host mixed‑use residential projects with 10% affordable and 5% workforce units; residents urged detailed traffic and school‑capacity studies before any rezoning or land‑use changes.
Councilmember Wigder opened a workshop discussion July 22 on proposed text amendments to the city's Commercial Industrial Mixed Use Development (CIMD) ordinance that would, under narrow conditions, allow certain RB‑1 parcels to be redeveloped with multifamily housing near single‑family neighborhoods.
Cliff Hertz of Nelson Mullins, representing Palmetto Park Square interests, summarized the applicant's proposal and the draft changes. Hertz said the amendments would apply only to RB‑1 parcels and only where the property was at least 20 contiguous acres; projects would be capped at 15 units per acre if abutting single‑family zoning, must provide 10% affordable and 5% workforce housing, and would be limited to the existing RB‑1 FAR of…
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