Tamarac commission approves land‑use and rezoning for proposed warehouse at 5600 Hiatus Boulevard
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Summary
By a unanimous 5–0 vote April 7, Tamarac’s City Commission approved a small‑scale future land‑use amendment and a rezoning to business‑park for 5600 Hiatus Boulevard, clearing the way for an applicant‑proposed roughly 85,000‑square‑foot industrial building; the applicant said the development would lower trips and utilities use compared with the existing commercial use and could raise assessed value from about $5 million to $15 million.
The Tamarac City Commission unanimously approved a small‑scale future land‑use amendment (Item 7A) and a separate quasi‑judicial rezoning (Item 10A) on April 7 to allow an industrial warehouse project at 5600 Hiatus Boulevard.
Malcolm Butters of Butters Construction Development, sworn in for the quasi‑judicial item, described the application as a request to change roughly 6.1 gross acres from commercial to industrial and to rezone the property from mixed‑use corridor to business park. Butters said the developer has the parcel under contract and intends to seek site‑plan approval in a subsequent meeting for an approximately 85,000‑square‑foot industrial building. He told the commission the change would be consistent with surrounding warehouse and business‑park uses and predicted the development would reduce vehicle trips and lower water, sewer and waste demands compared with the property’s current commercial use.
Butters also gave a preliminary financial estimate, saying the parcel is currently assessed at about $5,000,000 and that, after redevelopment, the assessed value could be roughly $15,000,000, which he said would materially increase city tax revenues. "When we're done, it probably will be assessed at 15,000,000," Butters said during his presentation. He named BlackRock as a joint‑venture partner in prior projects and said this would be the firm's third project in Tamarac with his family’s firm.
City staff opened the public comment period for both items; no members of the public spoke on the land‑use or rezoning items. Commissioners disclosed meetings with the applicant as required and then voted separately on the land‑use amendment (Item 7A) and the rezoning (Item 10A); both passed 5–0.
The approvals were limited to the land‑use and zoning changes; Butters said the applicant expects to return to the commission for site‑plan review in a later meeting. The staff report and the ordinance text reference Florida statutes and the City of Tamarac land‑development code (staff cited chapter 163 for plan‑amendment procedure and section 10‑2.1(b) of the city code for zoning).
