The City Commission approved a suite of map amendments and site-plan actions that allow a proposed mixed-use project referred to as 760 Ponce to proceed with conditions negotiated with nearby residents. The consolidated hearing combined future land-use and zoning map changes, a planned area development approval and related conditional-use site plan review.

Applicant counsel George Navarro and partner Robert Behar summarized a set of off-site mitigation commitments reached during recent neighborhood meetings, including new crosswalks, speed cushions and bump-outs on residential streets adjacent to the site and coordination with the city’s Ponce De Leon corridor improvements. Navarro said the team had “incorporated the comments that they gave us and suggestions for us to do” and showed revised plans addressing neighbor concerns.

Residents who worked with the applicant said the result was “a compromise” reached after repeated meetings; one neighborhood representative told the commission the group was satisfied overall. Commissioners and staff added conditions to clarify the extent of off-site improvements (extending certain street beautification to fully complete the block) and refined the electric-vehicle charging language so the applicant provides a portion of spaces with EV charging and EV-capable infrastructure in the garage.

The commission recorded votes approving the future-land-use amendments, zoning map changes, and the planned area development with the negotiated conditions. Mayor Vince Lago and multiple commissioners framed the approvals as a negotiated outcome that avoided a larger, higher-rise development under available incentives, while delivering neighborhood traffic-calming and landscaping improvements.

What’s next: The applicant must finalize construction documents and coordinate permitting; the city will integrate the project’s off-site work into Ponce corridor CIP planning and will monitor construction-phase traffic and parking enforcement.