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Palm Beach County Rewrites Codes for New Mixed-Use Look

WEST PALM BEACH, FL-Planning director Frank Duke says one of the proposed concepts is a traditional marketplace look, which would more resemble old-fashioned Main Streets than shopping plazas, emphasizing sidewalks over parking lots.

By Pat Taylor | Updated on December 27, 2001

WEST PALM BEACH, FL-Planners in this fourth fastest-growing county in the United States are rewriting zoning codes, using a reverse engineering process. The goal is to create more opportunities for mixed use development, Frank Duke, the county’s planning director, tells GlobeSt.com.

County commissioners approved a new comprehensive growth plan two years ago that split the county into five tiers: Urban/suburban; exurban–areas with suburban density but some rural characteristics; rural–areas where lots range in size from one to 20 acres and commercial opportunities are limited; agricultural reserve–a 21,000 acre area in the southern part of the county west of the turnpike, east of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge; and the Glades tier–the western reaches of the county, containing mostly large scale agriculture.

Instead of going directly to the code-writing stage, however, the county decided to use the reverse engineering process.

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