Expressway-Oriented Transient Commercial Service Centers
the new ploy is to declare the site's 111 acres an "Expressway-Oriented Transient Commercial Service Center."
A small part of the land already has that existing designation, which permits services such as gas stations, hotels and restaurants that travelers need near highways. But how many drivers suddenly say to themselves, "I need to get off the road quick so I can put on water skis and be towed by a cable at 20 miles per hour across a man-made lake"?
Such a water park could be a wholesome attraction. The site's owners, from Palm Beach Gardens, have been relentlessly selling it as such, along with the big RV park and indoor/outdoor skate park. But "Expressway-Oriented Transient Commercial Service Centers" are not supposed to be tourist attractions. They're supposed to reduce traffic on nearby local roads. The water park would burden those roads.
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April 14, 2012
The 114-acre parcel, bound by Florida’s Turnpike, I-95, and Bridge Road, includes 1,320 feet on Bridge Road already zoned for Expressway Oriented Transient Commercial Service Center (EOTCSC) land use—which allows construction of a restaurant, gas station and hotel—and a 24-acre, man-made lake. The remaining 52 acres are zoned for agricultural, of which approximately 30 acres are protected wetlands.
The developers, Jennifer King and Marcel Mullet of Palm Beach Gardens, want to build the park in two phases: The first phase will be an indoor-outdoor skateboard park, cabins, and RV and water park on the northern parcel, before building a gas station, hotel, and restaurant on the south end of the property with the EOTCSC zoning.
“They should develop that expressway-oriented property first…build the gas station, the restaurant, the hotel first,” Moir said, in order to be in compliance with the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan. “I am not personally in favor of any urban services outside the urban services boundary, but with the expressway zoning, we don’t have any choice about it. It’s already there.”
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