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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Accepting The Washington Park Industrial Area Redevelopment Program Recommendations; Providing Policy Direction Regarding Phased Implementation Of The Recommendations; Providing For Certain Limitations; And Providing For An Effective Date. (25-RESO-27)
Strategic Plan Focus
Quality of Life & Strong Neighborhoods
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The Washington Park Industrial Area Redevelopment Program is an action-oriented implementation framework, not a Comprehensive Plan amendment, zoning amendment, or regulatory instrument. Its purpose is to align the City’s departments, investments, policies, and operational decisions around a unified vision for Washington Park in the short-, mid-, and long-term horizons.
Reinvestment in the industrial district is expected to produce benefits that extend into the surrounding neighborhood through safer streets, improved drainage, better lighting and sidewalks, more orderly parking and loading, enhanced public spaces, greater access to services, and new economic opportunities. Rather than treating industry, housing, and new development as competing interests, the Plan demonstrates how they can work together by preserving the industrial core, protecting established homes, directing greater intensity toward appropriate transportation corridors and opportunity sites, and using thoughtful design guidelines to create a more functional and attractive district.
Realizing the vision outlined in the Redevelopment Program will require more than adopting the document. It will require sustained political leadership to establish clear priorities, allocate funding, authorize the necessary policy and technical work, and maintain accountability for visible progress. While the City Commission retains the ability to refine priorities, the redevelopment program depends on the cumulative effect of the recommended actions. For the Plan to succeed, it must operate as a living implementation framework that informs departmental work programs, annual budget recommendations, capital planning, and integrating into the City’s overarching strategic plan.
Background
In April 2025, the City Commission authorized the development of a Comprehensive Redevelopment Program for the Washington Park Industrial Area. This item brings forward the completed redevelopment program which is supported by existing conditions analysis, public outreach, stakeholder engagement, and technical review. The study establishes a strategic framework to guide future reinvestment, mobility, infrastructure, parking, urban design, economic development, environmental conditions, and neighborhood compatibility within the Washington Park Industrial Area.
The study confirms that the Washington Park Industrial area functions as an important service, trades, commercial, and industrial district. The recommendations are intended to preserve the area’s employment and industrial base while improving safety, organization, appearance, mobility, parking, infrastructure, and overall functionality of the district and adjacent areas of influence.
Public outreach played a central role in shaping the recommendations. Residents, business owners, property owners, and stakeholders emphasized the importance of maintaining Washington Park’s working district identity while improving cleanliness, circulation, green space, infrastructure, and compatibility with surrounding residential areas. Based on this input, the study positions Washington Park as Hollywood’s Service and Trades District, recognizing its role as a local economic hub for small businesses, skilled labor, essential services, and accessible employment.
The recommendations are organized into short-, mid-, and long-term actions including but not limited to:
• Adopting a Street Hierarchy for the area;
- Improving traffic circulation, pedestrian safety, transit access, and parking management through a Pavement Marking Plan to Define Clear Circulation Zones;
- Undertaking scoped studies to implement traffic calming and truck-routing strategies to protect residential areas;
- Developing A Comprehensive Street Condition And Needs Assessment To Prioritize The Repair And Repaving Of Residential Streets; and
- Developing and Adopting Strategies To increase Water Permeability in the Public ROW.
Approval of the Resolution would accept the proposed design guidelines for the district in addition to key study recommendations. This policy direction will allow staff to begin phased implementation through departmental coordination, prioritization of near-term actions, identification of funding opportunities, continued stakeholder engagement, and preparation of future policy, program, budget, or code amendments needed to advance the recommendations. Any action requiring funding, land use or zoning amendments, interagency agreements, capital project approval, or other City Commission authorization, would return as a separate item.
The intent is to guide future public and private investment in a manner that improves the function, safety, appearance, resilience, and economic vitality of Washington Park while protecting the residential base and preserving the district’s service and trades character.
Fiscal Impact:
There is no fiscal impact associated with this Resolution. Future implementation actions will require separate funding authorization, budget allocation, grants, partnerships, or future City Commission approval.
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Cameron Palmer, Assistant Director, Development Services - Chief Planner
Andria Wingett, Director of Development Services
Jose Cortes, Assistant City Manager