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By Jupiter Tide Staff
Jupiter's Planning and Zoning Commission meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, and will hold the first hearing on adding a small vacant lot to Beacon Park, the planned 103-home neighborhood on former industrial land south of Jupiter Community Park.
The meeting is in the Council Chambers at the Town of Jupiter Municipal Complex, 210 Military Trail. The commission also acts as the town's Local Planning Agency, so its vote is a recommendation to the Town Council.
What's on the agenda
The lot is about 0.8 acre on the west side of Island Way, next to the southbound I-95 ramp, roughly 180 feet south of Island Way and 1,300 feet west of Limestone Creek Road, according to the agenda. The request has two parts (cases PZ 26-6896 and 26-6897, Ordinances 36-26 and 37-26):
Change the future land use from General Industrial, with the Bioscience Research Protection Overlay, to Medium Density Residential.
Rezone the lot from I-4 (industrial, high technology and employment center) to R-3 (limited multifamily residential).
According to the staff report in the meeting packet:
Pulte Home Company, LLC is the applicant. The owner is MIC Island Way, LLC. Staff says the applicant has the lot under contract and has filed updated planned unit development (PUD) and site plan applications that include it. Pulte's involvement had previously been reported in the news; this is the first Town document we've seen that names it.
The lot takes Beacon Park from 99 to 103 homes. Staff says it adds four homes, for 47 single-family homes on the west side of Island Way.
Removing the bioscience overlay takes four Council votes. Jupiter's comprehensive plan requires a four-member supermajority of the five-member Council to take land out of the overlay, and staff calls that a policy decision for the Council. The overlay came out of a 2006 interlocal agreement meant to reserve north county land for bioscience. That agreement ended in 2024, but the town's policies remained.
Staff findings: With the overlay removed, staff found the change consistent with the comprehensive plan, provided the Council gives final approval to the land-use changes for the rest of Beacon Park. Staff also found it would generate less potential traffic than industrial use and have little environmental impact. Town traffic and natural-resources staff raised no concerns.
Schedule change: final vote now "TBD"
The agenda and staff report list the Town Council's first reading for Dec. 15 and the second reading as "TBD." The Town's Nov. 2 hearing notice had set the second reading for Jan. 19, 2027. The staff report says all of Beacon Park's land-use and zoning second readings, for the east side, the west side and this lot, will be held together once the PUD and site plan catch up. Town notices put the PUD and site plan before the Planning and Zoning Commission on Dec. 8.
The Council gave the east and west sides' land-use and zoning changes first-reading approval earlier this year. None has had a final vote.
Also on the Nov. 10 agenda
A zoning text change that would move building permit and development review fees out of the Town Code and adopt them by reference instead (PZ 26-7063). That item goes to the Council on Dec. 1 and Dec. 15.
How to weigh in
Anyone who wants to speak should fill out a green comment card and hand it to the board secretary, the agenda says. Speakers get three minutes and should give their name and address. For questions or full attachments, the staff report lists planner Garret Watson at [email protected] or 561-741-2549. The agenda and packet are on the town's meeting portal.
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