Palm Beach will soon add guardrails to a local law that allows North End houses to be built closer to the street.
On Feb. 11, Town Council members unanimously gave an initial thumbs-up to adding another level of vetting when a North End property owner wants to move a house 5 feet closer to the street than the zoning code allows. Town law allows such a move, as long as the backyard is increased by the same amount.
The approval came with an order to modify the proposed rule to allow both stories of a two-story building to be pushed forward…