Palm Beach residents with landmarked homes may soon have an easier time repairing and updating their historic properties.
During the Town Council’s Nov. 13 meeting, council members approved on first reading two ordinances that would clear up the language regulating landmarked homes and streamline the process for renovating those properties through a “landmark adjustment” request system.
A type of waiver, landmark adjustments would allow owners of landmarked homes to exceed certain zoning code thresholds by five percent, said James Murphy, assistant director of the Planning, Zoning and Building Department…