Delray Beach Board Weighs Full Delray Place SAD Rezoning

Delray Beach’s Planning and Zoning Board takes up a full rewrite of the zoning rules governing the Delray Place shopping center on October 19, 2026, voting on a recommendation for Ordinance No. 47-26. The privately initiated rezoning, filed as File No. PZ-000715-2026, would repeal the 14 year old Ordinance No. 41-12 in its entirety and re-adopt amended Special Activities District regulations for the 1801 South Federal Highway site. The applicant and owner of record is Retail Property Group Inc., represented by land use firm Miskel Backman LLP.

Why it matters

Repealing an SAD ordinance outright and re-adopting it, rather than filing a narrow text amendment, is the heavier procedural lift developers reach for when they want more room than the existing rules give them. The board packet for this item attaches a new Master Development Plan exhibit tied to Ordinance No. 47-26, along with a parking utilization study and a separate consultant review of that study, a strong signal that parking ratios or site layout are part of what the owner wants changed. The agenda itself does not spell out the specific use or development standard changes beyond the repeal and readopt structure, so the substantive ask will not be fully public until the staff report and ordinance text are reviewed at the hearing. Retail owners across South Florida have been pushing similar SAD overhauls to loosen use restrictions or add density as shopping center tenant mixes keep turning over.

The numbers

The item carries File No. PZ-000715-2026 and covers a single parcel, PCN 12-43-46-28-95-001-0000. The ordinance it would repeal, No. 41-12, dates to 2012, making this rewrite 14 years overdue by the owner’s own framing. The board meets at 5:01 p.m. on October 19, 2026 in Delray Beach’s Commission Chamber, with the Delray Place item listed as agenda item 8.B under quasi judicial hearings.

What’s next

The Planning and Zoning Board’s vote is a recommendation only. Final adoption of Ordinance No. 47-26 rests with the Delray Beach City Commission, which will schedule its own hearing once the board acts. The American Developer will track the staff report and the ordinance text itself for the specific use and development standard changes once those details become part of the public record.