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Planning board approves concrete batch plant and regional distribution center near 10th Avenue North
Summary
The Lake Worth Beach Planning & Zoning Board approved a major site plan, conditional use permit and sustainable-bonus height request for a concrete batch plant and regional distribution center at 2200.143 Avenue North, with conditions including dust control, noise limits and multiple departmental reviews.
The Planning & Zoning Board voted to approve PZB project 2501400016, clearing the way for construction of an office and a double concrete batch plant apparatus at 2200.143 Avenue North.
Senior community planner Karina Maldonado told the board the proposal covers "a little under 31,000 square feet of use area" and includes a double batch plant apparatus that would reach up to 68 feet under the applicant's sustainable-bonus request; Maldonado noted the land-development code allows apparatus structures to 84 feet. Staff recommended approval with conditions from public works, electric and utilities, and supplemental regulations specific to manufacturing, fabrication and processing facilities.
Attorney Ellen Bogdanoff and owner representative Greg Vanderhall answered technical questions during the hearing. Vanderhall said the operation will use moisture-control sprinklers on aggregate "as part of a DOT requirement as well to keep that, moisture content up" and described a three-stage washout basin intended to contain slurry and recycle wash water on-site.
Board members pressed the applicant and staff on proximity to schools and residences; Maldonado said Lake Worth Middle School sits north of 10th Avenue and that two mobile-home parks are "a little over 350 feet" from the project, meeting the separation required by code. The staff report cited the project's consistency with the comprehensive plan, the strategic plan and the city land-development regulations and called out numerous conditions of approval listed in the staff report.
After deliberation about whether the industrial nature of the site fit the city's strategic-plan priorities, a board member moved to approve the major site plan, the conditional use permit and the sustainable-bonus incentive request with the staff-recommended conditions. The motion carried.
The approval includes the listed department conditions, requirements for landscape buffering and lighting controls, and compliance with noise limits measured at the property line. The board record shows the project will proceed subject to the conditions listed on pages 10–13 of the staff report; staff will implement those conditions and monitor compliance.
