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Planning board approves Precious Metals CUP with extended window for storefront glazing
Summary
The Lake Worth Beach Planning & Zoning Board approved a conditional use permit for Precious Metals Reclaiming Services South to operate at 23 South H Street, granting a nine-month period to complete a required storefront glazing modification and imposing building, ADA and utility permit conditions.
The City of Lake Worth Beach Planning & Zoning Board on Feb. 4 approved a conditional use permit for Precious Metals Reclaiming Services South to operate a medium-intensity single-destination commercial business at 23 South H Street.
Staff planner Karina Maldonado recommended approval with conditions, saying the site will be occupied by an applicant who primarily operates by appointment and that the building (constructed in 1975) is about 3,000 square feet. Maldonado noted the site is 6,750 square feet and that an earlier privately initiated LDR amendment (Ordinance 2025-13) allowed a single-destination commercial use at the smaller lot size. "Staff does recommend approving the application," Maldonado said during the presentation.
Counsel for the applicant, R. Max Lohman of the Lohman Law Group, told the board the owner agrees with staff conditions but asked that the six-month time window for the required facade glazing be extended to nine months to allow engineering and custom windows. "We were just asking if we could have 9 months to complete that window installation," Lohman said. The applicant described existing security measures, including cameras, alarms and electromagnetically locked doors, and told the board the business will minimize on-site holdings and ship most scrap to an outside processing facility.
Board members confirmed a business-license application will be processed once staff determines all development-order conditions have been met. A board member moved to approve the CUP with the nine-month glazing timeframe; the motion was seconded and carried on a voice vote.
The approval includes conditions requiring a site-plan modification and building permit review within the approved timeframe, compliance with ADA and change-of-occupancy standards, and electrical and utilities conditions to be reviewed during permitting. The record showed no written opposition for this item and no public speakers during the hearing.
