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Board backs 1150 Innovation Center site changes but pares landscaping requirement and removes box-truck restriction

City of Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board · April 16, 2026
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Summary

The Planning & Zoning Board recommended approval of a site‑plan amendment and conditional use for the 1150 Innovation Center with conditions. The board reduced a live-oak requirement from 6-inch to 4-inch caliper and agreed to remove the blanket box‑truck restriction subject to staff-applicant negotiation; both motions passed 7–0.

The Boca Raton Planning & Zoning Board recommended approval of two related actions for the 1150 Innovation Center — a site-plan amendment to build two two‑story office/light-industrial buildings and a conditional-use approval permitting limited warehousing/showroom/wholesale uses in the Light Industrial Research Park (LIRP) zoning district — after extended discussion about compatibility, truck activity and landscaping.

City staff presented the application and said the revised plan reduced overall building intensity compared with earlier approvals, provided a continuous pedestrian loop around the site’s lake, and added landscape buffers and oak trees…

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