The Hollywood Planning and Development Board convened on Monday, November 10, 2025, at 6:00 PM in City Hall Room 219. The board addressed four quasi-judicial items: a front-yard setback variance for a single-family garage, a multi-variance application for a beach motel redevelopment, a design/site plan and side-yard variance for a 29-unit residential building, and a nine-variance adaptive reuse project converting an assisted living facility into 104 affordable senior housing units. Public comment was limited to one speaker on the 29-unit project and a commissioner’s letter of support for the senior housing project.
24-V-61 (5441 Estate Oak Circle) – Applicant (Shauna Speert, Knight Law) requested a variance to reduce the front-yard setback from 25 feet to 10 feet to build a code-compliant garage on an irregularly curved lot. Staff found criteria A–C consistent, D inconclusive, E not applicable. Board member Bob Glickman raised HOA approval concerns; the applicant stated they had a letter of approval. The board approved the variance 8–0 with a condition that the HOA approval letter be provided.
25-FV-24 (300 Arizona Street) – Applicant (Rocky Kaler, Kaler Architecture) sought three variances (parking reduction, landscape buffer reduction, walkway setback reduction) and one flexibility unit to convert a 0.09-acre property into a motel with one residential unit. Staff found all variances consistent. Board member Bob Glickman opposed the parking reduction, citing beach parking shortages. The board approved the three variances and the flex unit recommendation to City Commission by separate roll-call votes: variance one (4–3), variance two (7–1), variance three (7–1), and flex unit (7–1).
23-DPV-72 (2032 Jefferson Street) – Applicant (Lewis LaRosa, LLR Architects) presented a seven-story, 29-unit residential building with a variance to allow a concrete paving area within a side setback for a fire exit. Staff found variance criteria A–C consistent, D inconclusive. Board members discussed construction logistics, tree preservation, and compatibility with nearby approved projects. The board approved the variance and site plan unanimously (8–0).
25-PV-64 (3880 S. Circle Drive) – Applicant (Tracy Slavins, Elevation Properties LLC) requested nine variances and site plan approval to convert an underutilized assisted living facility into 104 age-restricted senior housing units with 23 parking spaces. Staff found all variance criteria inconclusive due to outstanding traffic and engineering comments. Board member Bob Glickman expressed concern about incomplete information. The board approved all nine variances individually (all 8–0 except variance one which was 7–1) and the site plan with a condition that traffic engineering comments be satisfied prior to building permit issuance (8–0). The board also approved the recommendation for 12 affordable housing bonus units (8–0).
Thank you, Dina. Uh roll call, please. Christine Corbo. Here. Old Alice Delgado. Joseph Stadlin. Here. Richard Blattner. Here. Stephen Morales. Here. Tara Jafar Madar. Robert Vargas. Menna Morgan. Yeah. Bob Glickman. Here. As we have quorum, this meeting is now officially called to order. As anybody has anybody, everybody had a chance to remove the review the long agenda and minutes from last meeting. Bob? Oh, I'm sorry. Uh Bob, you want to make an announcement? Yes. Uh good evening, everybody. Uh before we get started, I have something I'd like to say to everybody. Uh tonight is uh Dina's last meeting with us here at the planning board. You know we know she's moving on to bigger and better things. We want to thank her for all the guidance she's given us and that everything she's done for us in the city. We want to wish her much success and good luck as she moves on. And a happy Thanksgiving. And I'll visit so make sure we're still on track. With that. So move to Zer Second. Second. Move in second all in favor. Aye. Opposed. None? Cares. Uh moving on to the first item that we have before us tonight, which is file number twenty-four V sixty one. Um staff. So, Chair, I think we need to uh do petitions, deletions, withdrawals, and continuances, which there are none. Okay. And then city attorney announcements. I read the quasi judicial proceedings. Florida courts have determined that there are certain types of matters, including all of the items on today's agenda, which are to be treated differently than other issues considered by the board. In contrast, quasi-judicial matters, the board is applying existing rules and policies to a particular factual situation and is therefore acting like a judge or jury in a courtroom. In such cases, the courts have decided that due process and fundamental fairness requires that more formal procedures be followed. Therefore, in quasi-judicial matters, all witnesses are sworn in and subject to cross-examination by the parties. In addition, the decision of the board must be supported by competent and substantial evidence presented at the hearing.