Might Hollywood go the way of its condo canyons neighbors to the south and north?\u00a0<\/p>\n
The coastline of South Florida is mostly lined with skyscraping apartment towers, but one exception has always been Hollywood\u2019s beach, in the area north of Hollywood Boulevard. It has the charm of the Broadwalk and the quaint feel of old-time Florida, lined with mom-and-pop hotels, bars and cafes, and that atmosphere is preserved because of a 65-foot height limit on buildings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very worried that Hollywood could become Sunny Isles Beach,\u201d said Catherine Uden, who is running for an open city commission seat on an anti-beach development platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city is on the cusp of approving a plan to allow developers to build much higher hotels and condos along State Road A1A.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think most residents are opposed to new things. I think what they\u2019re opposed to is 20 stories all down A1A. That\u2019s a very drastic change from what we have now. That\u2019s three times as high as the height allows right now,\u201d Uden said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s plan would allow buildings to rise higher on A1A, but must taper down as they get closer to the beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout taking away from that experience, that pedestrian experience that we love, that we know as Hollywood Beach,\u201d said Cameron Palmer, the city\u2019s chief planner. \u201cSo the Broadwalk is gonna look completely the same because no bonuses are proposed, no bonuses are proposed on the Broadwalk.\u201d<\/p>\n
By bonuses, Palmer means the ability to build higher in exchange for design elements required by the city, such as more public gathering space, parking, and other features.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore we talk height, what\u2019s happening at the grade, because if what\u2019s happening at ground is enjoyable and an experience, then what\u2019s happening above is where we can allow for leniency,\u201d Palmer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another contentious issue is happening simultaneously on the beach: the city wants to allow a private developer to rebuild and improve its community center, but in exchange, the developer gets to build a condo tower on public land. It will have market-rate apartments along with 84 affordable housing units. Palmer calls it a win-win deal for all parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t have better amenities without a private tower. We\u2019ve done it many times in the city, so we can have an improved community center; we don\u2019t have to put a 30-story tower on top of it,\u201d Uden said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s Planning and Development Board is meeting Tuesday night to discuss these issues. As of this writing, the board had not yet voted, but it will make recommendations to the city commission on these beachfront controversies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Might Hollywood go the way of its condo canyons neighbors to the south and north?\u00a0 The coastline of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,686],"class_list":["post-394731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}