By Mary Hladky
The City Council has unanimously approved the One South Ocean luxury residential project that will replace a now-demolished three-story office building and 20 townhomes at the intersection of Palmetto Park Road and State Road A1A.
The project’s 70 units, ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 square feet, are planned to be rentals for now. But landowner Ramon Llorens could decide they will be condominiums, project attorney Bonnie Miskel said during the Boca Raton council’s June 13 meeting.
Members of the Riviera Civic Association, which includes residents of the Riviera, Por La Mar and Sun & Surf neighborhoods, have negotiated for years with Llorens and architect Jorge Garcia of GarciaStromberg over changes they wanted and were pleased that many of their requests were granted. Most recently, they wanted to be protected from noise they feared the project’s occupants could make.
In response, Llorens and Garcia agreed to relocate one pool from the fourth to the seventh floor and eliminate plans for a ground-floor restaurant that would have been used by residents and their guests, as well as for a children’s recreation area.
Two more conditions were imposed at the June meeting. No outside sound amplification system can be used from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., even though Llorens did not plan to have one, and a ground-floor pool bar and summer kitchen will be closed from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Half of the 3.5-acre site will be landscaped, far more than the city requires.
Objections aside, neighbors and city officials have praised the project’s appearance.
“I think it is a thoughtful, beautiful design,” City Council member Marc Wigder said.
“The building is beautiful,” said civic association president Katie Barr MacDougall. “It will be an asset to the neighborhood.”
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