The Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board has approved a medical center and cancer treatment facility on Congress Avenue.
Published December, 5th 2008.
By Dale M. King
CITY EDITOR
Owners of a medical center that uses proton beam radiation for cancer therapy got the Boca Raton Planning & Zoning Board’s OK to build a new facility on Congress Avenue.
P&Z members voted in favor of the application of Peter Carbone of Boca Raton ProCure Management LLC on behalf of the property owner, 8202 LLC, for site plan approval for the center.
The City Council has the final say in the decision. The P&Z vote is a recommendation for approval.
According to plans filed in City Hall, the center, to be built at the northeast corner of Congress Avenue at NW 82nd Street, will include a 20,000 square foot medical office and a 59,178 square foot cancer treatment facility – a total of 79,138 square feet of building coverage.
The medical complex is to be built in the Peninsula Corporate Center, which was constructed in 1987 as a site for professional offices, banks and financial institutions.
The plan says the 59,138 square foot building will be the primary facility – where cancer patients will receive treatment using proton beam radiation.
The other building will house medical office space.
According to the filing, the facility will be constructed in phases, with the ProCure (cancer treatment) center going up first. The plan says each building will be able to stand on its own.
The filing says the Boca Raton ProCure site will be only of only 10 in the United States using proton beam treatment. It will be an outpatient facility with four treatment rooms equipped with beam scanning nozzles.
Just the equipment and shielding alone, the plan says, will take up 27,864 feet in the building that will stand 43 feet tall.
Based on information in a study accompanying the report says that because the center is not a heavy traffic generator, so the Planning & Zoning Board approved a technical deviation reducing the number of required parking spaces to 193. Normally, the building would have needed 460.
P&Z member also approved a technical deviation allowing for a 343-foot long traffic island to minimize circulation.
Other Business
In other business, at a previous P&Z meeting, the board approved the application of Craig McDonald of South Florida Realty Association to construct a new Wendy’s fast-food restaurant at 865 North Federal Highway.
Essentially, the owner will tear down the existing Wendy’s that was built in 1965, and build a new one that is just a few square feet smaller. Plans say the existing building is 2,797; the new one will measure 2,789 square feet.
Plans say the existing building sustained roof damage in Hurricane Wilma. Planning documents say the owner “has opted to demolish it” rather than repair it.
The one-story structure stands on about three-quarters of an acre. It will maintain the existing 31 parking spaces. An existing Palm Tran shelter will also remain.
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