Lot clearing has begun on a vacant State Road A1A parcel east of Boca Raton’s Coastal Construction Control Line. It is the site of a future oceanfront home and one of only two vacant beachfront parcels remaining in the city. Delray Beach-based Azure Development LLC, which owns the property, applied for a building permit in April and the clearing is so that engineering crews can complete required tests. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Steve Plunkett
A vacant parcel scheduled to become an oceanfront home on the east side of State Road A1A in Boca Raton has been partially cleared so that engineering crews can complete required tests.
Delray Beach-based Azure Development LLC, which owns the .42-acre property at 2600 N. Ocean Blvd., applied for a building permit on April 30 after the City Council in October granted a variance to build a single-family home on the sand east of the city’s Coastal Construction Control Line.
The application values the four-story, 6,931-square-foot structure, across A1A from the Blue Water Townhouses, at almost $3.2 million.
As of Sept. 1, the owner still faced questions from the city’s Development Services Department on the property’s engineering, environmental, structural, utilities and zoning plans. The parcel now features a rocky circular driveway sloping down toward the sea.
Development Services had recommended that the variance be approved last October after attaching 17 conditions for Azure to meet, including that the building’s windows transmit no more than 31% of any interior lighting onto the beach, which is nesting habitat for protected sea turtles.
Azure first sought permission to build on the dune in February 2019, was rejected by the council and sued. The developer and the City Council agreed to settle two pending lawsuits over the property in September 2024 as a prelude to the variance vote. The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office says the vacant land is worth almost $3.4 million.
The property is one of two remaining undeveloped parcels on the beach. A federal judge in March 2024 ruled that the owner of 2500 N. Ocean Blvd. two lots south of 2600 has a “vested right” to build on its property.
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