Some Palm Beach County residents are balking at yet another residential project proposed for the county’s Agricultural Reserve, not wanting a plan for 259 homes in West Boynton to move forward.
The project, dubbed West Boynton Ranches, is being proposed for a plot of land directly south of Boynton Beach Boulevard and to the west of Lyons Road. Sixty-five of the homes would be considered workforce housing.
The developer representing the project, JMorton Planning & Landscape Architecture, is attempting to use a newer county land-use designation: “Essential Housing.” (JMorton Planning also is working on other projects in the Ag Reserve, including a proposal for warehouses around Bedner’s Market and the Park West proposal in Delray.)…