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Staff: 1,000 additional CIMD units would be manageable; traffic issues driven by background growth
Summary
Development Services staff told council that adding up to 1,000 units to the CIMD bank would have limited impacts on sewer, water and parks, generate roughly 140 police calls and 122 fire/EMS calls per year, and produce a modest number of school‑age children; projected traffic failures to 2036 are primarily due to background growth and will require corridor-level mitigation.
City staff presented a level-of-service analysis for authorizing up to 1,000 additional residential units in the CIMD zoning bank at the March 23 workshop.
Development Services Director Brandon Shadd told the council that sanitary sewer and potable water capacity are sufficient for the proposed additional units. Under the city's parks standard of 11 acres per 1,000 population, Boca Raton currently has nearly 1,600 acres of parks and a population of about 107,000 (roughly 14–15 acres per 1,000), so adding an estimated…
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