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Staff: adding 1,000 multifamily units to CIMD would be manageable but traffic mitigation needed
Summary
City staff’s level-of-service study found parks, water and sewer can absorb 1,000 additional units under the CIMD ordinance (5,684), estimated the units would generate roughly 2,300 residents and about two additional officers’ worth of police demand, but identified future traffic failures and recommended developer-funded mitigations.
Brandon Shadd, Development Services director, presented a level-of-service analysis to the Boca Raton City Council on March 23 that evaluated impacts if the city authorizes 1,000 additional multifamily units under the CIMD pre‑approval (ordinance 5,684).
Shadd said parks currently meet the city standard (11 acres per 1,000 population) and that Boca Raton’s roughly 1,600 acres of parks equate to about 14.5 acres per 1,000 after adding an estimated 2,300 residents (1,000 units × 2.3 persons per unit). He said sanitary sewer and potable water systems are in good shape, and stormwater requirements are…
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