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Palm Beach County commission initiates countywide review to raise fitness-center cap in commerce zones
Summary
After developer and tenant testimony, the commission voted 7-0 to initiate a countywide Unified Land Development Code text amendment to increase allowable fitness use in commerce-designated land; staff will draft Phase 2 language and return for additional hearings.
Palm Beach County commissioners voted unanimously to initiate a countywide review of the Unified Land Development Code that would raise how much of a commerce-designated development can be occupied by fitness centers.
Jennifer Morton, agent for the BC Commerce project, told the board the request is narrow and urgent: the 47-acre, under-construction project is approved for roughly 661,611 square feet and leasing activity is underway. "We are asking the board to initiate phase 2 of a text amendment that applies only to the commerce future land use category and is a simple increase from the fitness center cap to go from 20% to 35%," Morton said, adding that several youth-sports tenants were ready to sign…
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