4. COA-23-029 363 COCOANUT ROW—THE VINETA HOTEL. The applicant, 363 Cocoanut Row Popco LLC, has filed an application requesting a Certificate of Appropriateness to alter the color of the previously approved windows from green to white and modifications to the east elevation facing the pool deck, specifically three new service doors and the coordination of the historic window locations.
Public Comment, Town of Palm Beach Admin
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almost 2 years ago
Received via email on 7.12.23:
Dear Palm Beach Council:
In advance of your meeting today, we wanted to express some of our continued concerns with the increase in patrons at the Vineta Hotel.
Three things concern us: traffic, noise and crowds.
With 172 seats being allowed inside the hotel you could have at least fifty to seventy-five cars coming and going every night. Even with valet parking at two garages, this creates an enormous amount of additional traffic noise up and down our residential streets. Many people will chose to use Uber; these cars could be waiting on side streets for their next ride creating additional noise and traffic. One should consider crowds of people waiting outside the hotel for their cars late at night, or looking for their cars on side streets.
You as a board can dictate how many people should be allowed in any one space inside the hotel late at night, but who can monitor that? What kind of an "after-hours bar" has only 30-some people in it?
We choose to live in Palm Beach because we love the life there. We dutifully pay our taxes. We don't want to hear the sound of so much additional traffic in our
residential neighborhood, nor the sound of party revelers up and down side streets late at night and the effect it will have on our quality of life.
We appreciate the work you are doing for the town of Palm Beach, but in this case and going forward, we ask that you vote in favor of the local residents. As in any compromise there is a common ground to be found.
However considering where we are in the process now, too much ground as been given to the new-found developers. Limiting noise and density in this historic and tranquil neighborhood is the best path for the town of Palm Beach and its many residence.
Yours truly, Brooke and David Laughlin,
389 South Lake Dr.
Received via email on 7.12.23:
Dear Palm Beach Council:
In advance of your meeting today, we wanted to express some of our continued concerns with the increase in patrons at the Vineta Hotel.
Three things concern us: traffic, noise and crowds.
With 172 seats being allowed inside the hotel you could have at least fifty to seventy-five cars coming and going every night. Even with valet parking at two garages, this creates an enormous amount of additional traffic noise up and down our residential streets. Many people will chose to use Uber; these cars could be waiting on side streets for their next ride creating additional noise and traffic. One should consider crowds of people waiting outside the hotel for their cars late at night, or looking for their cars on side streets.
You as a board can dictate how many people should be allowed in any one space inside the hotel late at night, but who can monitor that? What kind of an "after-hours bar" has only 30-some people in it?
We choose to live in Palm Beach because we love the life there. We dutifully pay our taxes. We don't want to hear the sound of so much additional traffic in our
residential neighborhood, nor the sound of party revelers up and down side streets late at night and the effect it will have on our quality of life.
We appreciate the work you are doing for the town of Palm Beach, but in this case and going forward, we ask that you vote in favor of the local residents. As in any compromise there is a common ground to be found.
However considering where we are in the process now, too much ground as been given to the new-found developers. Limiting noise and density in this historic and tranquil neighborhood is the best path for the town of Palm Beach and its many residence.
Yours truly, Brooke and David Laughlin,
389 South Lake Dr.