Downtown Action Committee | October 14, 2026

The West Palm Beach Downtown Action Committee meeting on October 14, 2026, considered two development-rights transfers and a formal site plan and zoning-code revision for a proposed Publix full-service grocery store downtown. Both TDR applications were approved. Publix said it is under contract to purchase part of the project site from the city and is assembling roughly three acres for a store exceeding 40,000 square feet; no purchase price or other project budget was stated. The committee approved the site plan’s special review with conditions, including a traffic study of Banyan Boulevard, a median modification, and do-not-block markings and signs. The proposed Banyan exit restriction was tied to the study’s findings.

The committee approved the requested site-plan variances, except it denied the request to omit an employee shower, which the applicant agreed to provide; it separately approved the variance reducing required active use along North Rosemary Avenue. The committee also recommended approval of code revision 26-07, but removed the proposed exemption from active-use requirements. The revision would provide full-service supermarkets relief from private open-space requirements, options for meeting public-open-space obligations, and allow specified curb cuts on Rosemary Avenue. The code revision is a recommendation for further review, not a final citywide adoption. No procurement award or spending allocation was identified.