Here we go folks--it started with the change for Hudson Holdings and the Gulfstream Hotel. Now property on Lucerne will be upzoned for an owner. This practice will continue to spread like an Octopus throughout our downtown. I thought we went years to FINALLY get our LDR's right. We pay our staff a lot of money. So, what happened? Once again, a Planning & Zoning board going along with a developer/investor's request and now a commission that will do the very same thing. Will it ever end?
Ordinance Nos. 2016-11 & 2016-12 - First Reading
Changes the zoning - rezone property located at the northeast corner of Lucerne Avenue and North F Street and schedule the public hearing date for April 5, 2016.
SUMMARY:
Ordinance No. 2016-11 changes the Small Scale Future Land use Map.
Ordinance No 2016-12 changes the zoning
The Ordinance will rezone approximately .4646 acre from City’s Public (P) to the City’s Mixed Use – East (MU-E) Zoning district.
BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION:
The request falls within the scope of a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment. The parcel is located at the northeast corner of Lucerne Avenue and N F Street. Currently, the site has a City of Lake Worth Public (P) zoning designation and has a City Future Land use designation of Public (P). The Applicant (property owner) is preparing applications to develop the approximate .4646 acre parcel of land as the second phase to the successful Urban Arts loft.
The proposed zoning designation of Mixed Use - E (MU-E) is appropriate for the site and is consistent with surrounding properties which front Lucerne Avenue within the City. The MU-E designation will allow the development of the property as a combination of residential and commercial uses, and, allow the artists to use a portion of their home for their occupation of producing and selling their work or services “by right.” This ability of the artists to work out of their homes was an important decision factor for the phase 1 buyers and is a major selling point for phase 2.
At its meeting of February 3, 2016, the City’s Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously to recommend approval to the City Commission PZB 16-01300001, which covers changing the zoning from zoning classification of Public (P) to a City zoning classification of Mixed-Use – East (MU-E).
This is a very appropriate and reasonable request to go from "Public" zoning to add on to the Urban Arts Loft concept. It is what the P & Z board should be considering and if the project has merit approve it. A small scale Land use amendment is exactly what should be done, again of the project has merit and is consistent with the adjoining land uses. Why make this political? One has nothing to with the other.
ReplyDeleteEverything IS political. And that's the exact same excuse for upzoning the Gulfstream Hotel. Only you political people buy the argument.
ReplyDeleteHey, this is what they did to the mobile home park.
ReplyDeleteTo all of those people who had nasty things to say about us complaining about the rezoning of Palm Beach Mobile Home Park for the POC, YOU MAY BE NEXT.
ReplyDeleteWho owns this property?
ReplyDeleteNeighborhood Renaissance, Inc
ReplyDeletelocated at 110 N F.
Further, the city deeded it to the CRA...it is theirs.
ReplyDeleteThere should not be any upzoning. Leave the lot empty, filled with weeds and trash. That's what you want right lynn?
ReplyDeleteNobody's cared about that trailer park for years. Why would they start caring now? Because of some made up b.s. about trash pickup? NOBODY CARES
The city is demolishing properties at the expense of taxpayers who are footing the bill. Then they are turning them over to the CRA. The CRA turns them over to someone else for nothing. They cycle continues and the commission says, looky here, we are getting properties on the tax roles.
ReplyDeleteCRA means NO TAX increase to the City
ReplyDeletebut an unwatched, unaccountable and
unelected group that will have control
of we the people taxes!
Response to 10:01. The BS is coming from you. It is not just about trash pick-up. It is about the people of this city. But obviously you don't care about anyone but yourself. The trash pick up cost was not reported correctly. Don't know where you live but how would you like to walk your garbage 1/2 mile away. How would you like to live next to a dumpster. As for the zoning. I am aware that certain areas may need to be rezoned but do it fairly and don't rezone so that we can put up a bunch of ugly buildings. The attraction to Lake Worth in the past was the quaintness of the city, the small shops downtown, the walk along the avenues, the feeling of being safe. This is all going by the wayside so that big businesses can bring in more tax dollars.
ReplyDeleteThere is no big business - big box store coming to lake worth!
ReplyDeleteIf there is, and you know something, please by all means share your earth shattering news.
By the way, when was the last time you went shopping in downtown Lake Worth? It was 20-30 years ago when Ralph had his nice clothing/shoe store - yea he left for Palm Beach Gardens and now owns Ralph's Place on Burns Rd - love that guy, a real gentleman... He just shakes his head at the chaos brought by the cave people, those who say no to everything. People this is 2016 not 1956. You're dreaming of you think anyone would bring an upscale shoe store or fine ladies apparel to LW... They would not last... We don't have enough shoppers with money to burn on $695 Gucci loafers... especially if they have to step past the druggie panhandlers on the sidewalks. That's why we have so many consignment shops, Dollar General and the inexpensive clothing shop on Lake... And so many bars and restaurants who can pay the high rents with their volume of traffic.
No one is interested in our city becoming a Palm Beach. If you are so unhappy here in LW and just want to constantly change it, why not move to some place where you can stop your bitching and STOP using that old cliche...I want to move the city forward.
ReplyDeleteIt is sickening.
You made this city a honky tonk. You attracted the druggies, the vape users, the kava God knows what users, the felons on Lake Avenue.
And to put down 1956, gosh people were safe back then...not so now with the escalating crime and drugs and slum lords attracted to this city.
I find it strange, but hear it over and over again. You complain about slum and blight and that nobody is doing anything about it. Then the city closes down a property that could only be used for administering government shit to illegal aliens. It was not maintained because the city did not control the property.
ReplyDeleteThe hurricanes damaged the buildings and they were found to be uninhabitable. Since the overwhelming success of the Urban Arts Lofts project, the ONLY development West of the tracks in decades, the CRA thought it would be a great addition to continue developing the Western corridor.
The only other option to making the zoning fit with ANYTHING other than building another public building is to leave it sit vacant. Collecting trash.
Apparently changing the zone to allow mixed use, meaning residential AND commercial, is "up-zoning" to you. Any reasonable person would look at that and see it for what it is. A benefit to Lake Worth and improvement to the Western section of the city that has been long overlooked and neglected.
If this success continues, the CRA may lure more development between the tracks and A Street for you to complain about.
doesn't the head of the cra wear those
ReplyDelete"...$695 Gucci loafers..." type shoes?
Also bought some nicer boobs on her salary
even (as you said) "We don't have enough
shoppers with money to burn on $695 Gucci loafers..."
Isn't this an oxymoron?
Chip?
ReplyDeleteThe point is the upzoning...period.
Not that the project might not be good for the area.
There are some nice shops in Lake Worth on Lake Avenue with reasonable prices. No one wants the expensive stores in Lake Worth. Nice stores with reasonable prices. No box stores as we have enough of those. If you had your way all of Lake and Lucerne would be expensive apartment buildings. No one is talking about the fifties.
ReplyDeleteWe are talking about the late 80's and 90's. You are such a snob and you have no concept of what the public really wants or needs. Just what the Trio see as an improvement.
@1:27 you are despicable. Making fun of a cancer survivor is about as low as you can go. Shame on you.
ReplyDelete@3:13 about as low as the trio allowing seniors to be bullied and afraid of retaliation, as low as the businesses afraid of retaliation if they do not put up a commissioners sign and Church had code officer, at the same Commissioner request bully them in a hoodie, as low as ignoring a legal heights charter amendment, as low as the ITN cone of silence then being told the top level at the beach NEVER could be rented as is...but not as low as Szerdi calling us dumb and dumber from the dais...that was much lower.
ReplyDeleteI will apologize about the cancer - the DD's threw me and I assumed.
I was wrong and I apologize for that comment.
I am not an insider, not a politico, not a slumlord, not a developer, just someone who has been around this town living in it and just outside of it but always being a part of enjoying the downtown, the golf course and the beach, but for the life of me I can not see how this is "upzoning". I read the comments and the insults and I just don't get it! If it remained "P" for Public Zoning, could that not be a new City Hall, a New Fire Station, a Public School , etc. and aren't some of those uses more intense then residential work/lofts? And don't we want this kind of development? If someone asked for an increase in density over another type of private use I would get it, but I do not get this argument as "upzoning" Maybe I should just chalk this up to election time but my goodness this makes no sense to argue this particular land use change as true upzoning that was started by the Gulfstream approval. Sorry but arguing against this just seems so counter productive to the the future of our City no matter what side you are on. Go ahead blast away.....
ReplyDeleteI get it that you don't get it.
ReplyDeleteNo one is arguing against it, just bringing up a fact.
This project may be lovely, but the bottom line is each zoning waiver, each upzoning leads to the next one. So, sure this project seems quite reasonable although any tax dollars go to the CRA and not the City. On the other hand these upzonings create precedence and all of sudden your neighbor wants to upzone and get setback waivers and you are staring at a cinderblock wall out of your window.
ReplyDeleteFalse argument. This is not upzoning. Lynn does not get it and prefers to make false arguments.
DeleteI truly believe that you do not get it, but rather prefer to lump all issues into two sides. And that is a sad state you put yourself in.
ReplyDeleteIt is not upzoning especially if you are a neighbor of the property and could have had been subjected to an intense public building use, therefore it is not a fact but rather your opinion that it is upzoning. I shall agree to disagree with you. I am happy that the P & Z board recognizes it is as the correct decision to make for all of the City. I can not agree with someone that lumps this in with the Gulfstream.
I thought it was all commercial in there. Now it's residential mixed use.
ReplyDeleteYep there's the big bad "upzoning" what a crock of you know what!
DeleteLynn isn't Rice in charge of the P&Z Comm? He is always in cahoots with developers. I am sure he wants this so to then sell his property or build on that up high too on the corner of Lucerne and D Street too, it is all about money, dirty money washing each others hands. Rice is a nasty piece of work. I an sure he is in the middle of all of this Lynn, you know that too.
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha what a complete tool! Yes Greg Rice will benefit from allowing this to be "upzoned" to artists lofts residential mixed use...AND HOW DOES MAKE ONLY HIS PROPERTY MORE valuable? And would not it be better to keep this property that was so-called upzoned trashy and vacant so thay Greg Rice and all other property owners in that area won't make any money or increase their property values? You are brilliant! Do you have proof of this mad conspiracy of people that own property wanting values to go up. Maybe you're a gd communist too...OMG the lack of intelligence is shocking! I must take a break from this to restore my faith in people.
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ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, and Rice has a lot to gain by doing this as he owns a big chuck of land just a block away or so. I just don't trust this guy at all, he is greedy and corrupt at best.
" Anonymous Anonymous said...
This project may be lovely, but the bottom line is each zoning waiver, each upzoning leads to the next one. So, sure this project seems quite reasonable although any tax dollars go to the CRA and not the City. On the other hand these upzonings create precedence and all of sudden your neighbor wants to upzone and get setback waivers and you are staring at a cinderblock wall out of your window.
March 1, 2016 at 4:14 PM"
Just like this new tax increase the school district and many want us to pay, when the government gave our public schools away to all these for profit charter schools, now they are broke and need to increase our taxes here in PBC. I say no to no more tax increases, 6% is enough, let them make the charter and Renaissance schools pay more to the district. I won't vote to increase our taxes more, they don't know how to use them correctly!
ReplyDeleteRight anonymous, if you are Greg Rice and you have something to gain fro all of this down the road then you may rethink what you are saying, or are you rice?
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I truly believe that you do not get it, but rather prefer to lump all issues into two sides. And that is a sad state you put yourself in.
It is not upzoning especially if you are a neighbor of the property and could have had been subjected to an intense public building use, therefore it is not a fact but rather your opinion that it is upzoning. I shall agree to disagree with you. I am happy that the P & Z board recognizes it is as the correct decision to make for all of the City. I can not agree with someone that lumps this in with the Gulfstream.
March 1, 2016 at 4:21 PM
do u really believe that Gary or Ryan are equipped to handle decisions like these, objectively Lynn?
ReplyDeleteWhen someone buys a property, don't they know what the zoning is ? And yet they buy it anyway. And then they demand an up zoning. An up zoning that the growth whores are always going to allow.Time to shut down Greg Rice and the rest of the politically weaponized,unaccountable board members in this town.
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