Boca Raton Council approves 8-story residential building at Boca Raton Resort with conditions after neighborhood concerns

The Boca Raton City Council on March 24 approved a package of development orders that will allow the Boca Raton Resort & Club to build an eight-story, 76-unit residential building on a 5.224-acre portion of its Harborside campus. The council adopted a future land use map amendment, a rezoning, a master-plan amendment and a site plan — each by separate vote — with conditions spelling out construction-management requirements and pedestrian protections.

City planning staff told the council the project complies with the city's comprehensive plan and code, noting previous master-plan approvals and a planning-board recommendation to approve. "The application, as designed, supports goals, objectives and policies in the comprehensive plan related to housing, infrastructure, and land use," senior planner Owen Devlin said, adding staff recommended approval subject to conditions and a corrected advertised acreage.

Residents and nearby condominium associations urged the council to tighten conditions after reviewing materials…