The town's Planning and Zoning Commission has spent the fall weighing a 103-home neighborhood, a Walmart delivery depot, a four-home annexation it voted against, and the land under the Suni Sands hotel plan. Here is where each project stands, and the dates that decide them.
If you want to know what Jupiter will look like in five years, the Planning and Zoning Commission is where the future shows up first.
The commission does not get the final vote. It hears each major development application, listens to neighbors, and recommends approval or denial to the Town Council, which decides. Over the past five months that pipeline has handled most of the town's biggest projects, and the largest one is still to come.
Dec. 8: Beacon Park, 103 homes next to Jupiter Community Park
The next Planning and Zoning meeting, on Tuesday, December 8 at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers, is built around one project: Beacon Park, a proposed 103-home single-family development on about 58.5 acres south of Jupiter Community Park, west of Limestone Creek Road, north of Indiantown Road and east of the I-95 interchange.
The land has long been designated for industrial and bioscience use. The applications before the commission, from property owner Crossroads 6101 LLC, would approve a large-scale planned unit development, with waivers, and a site plan for the 103 homes. The commission's recommendation goes to the Town Council, which is scheduled to hear the project on January 19, 2027, with a second and final reading on February 16.
A smaller piece of Beacon Park has already been through the commission. On November 10 it heard a land use and zoning change for a 0.8-acre lot on the west side of Island Way, next to the southbound I-95 ramp. That parcel, where Pulte Home Company, LLC is the named applicant, adds four homes to the project, which is how the plan grew from 99 homes to 103. The commission voted 4-3 to recommend the Council approve the change: Marty Rogol made the motion and David Thompson seconded, with Beth Kelso, Michael Cassatly and Paul Keenan voting no. That is a recommendation only, not an approval. The Town Council takes that piece up on first reading December 15, and town staff have said the final Beacon Park votes will be held together once the main development plan catches up.
Nov. 17: Council decides two projects the commission split on
Before Beacon Park, the Council has homework from the commission's October 13 meeting, where its two recommendations pointed in opposite directions.
Palmwood Residential. A 1.47-acre property at East Frederick Small Road and Palmwood Road is asking to be annexed into Jupiter from Palm Beach County, with land use and zoning changes that would allow four single-family homes. Neighbors opposed the plan on density, drainage and neighborhood character, and the commission agreed: it voted 4-2 to recommend the Council deny the annexation and the land use change, and split 3-3 on the zoning, which sends that piece to Council with no recommendation at all. A denial recommendation does not end the application. The Council hears it on first reading November 17 and can still approve it, with a second reading set for December 15.
Walmart Depot. The same night, the commission voted 6-0 the other way, recommending approval of a special exception that would turn an existing building at 1830 Park Lane South into a roughly 17,300-square-foot Walmart fulfillment depot for online orders and local delivery. It would not be a store and would not be open to shoppers. Because it is a special exception rather than a rezoning, the Council's November 17 hearing is the decision, with no second reading.
Suni Sands: the commission asked for more shoreline, Council moved ahead anyway
The highest-profile project in the pipeline never really belonged to the commission. Under the January mediation settlement between the town and developer Charles Modica, only the future land use change for the former Suni Sands property at 961 and 997 North A1A went before the commission, sitting as the Local Planning Agency on September 10. The project itself, a 110-room hotel, 44 condominiums, a restaurant, retail, a spa and a 17-slip marina on 10.5 acres at the Jupiter Inlet, goes straight to Council.
The commission voted 7-0 to recommend the land use change, but with conditions the applicant had not asked for: shrink the developable portion from 5.0 acres to 4.3 by leaving a shoreline strip out, grow the conservation land from 5.5 acres to 6.2, and keep the Riverwalk corridor at its full 535 feet instead of cutting it to 142.
On October 29 the Council advanced all four Suni Sands ordinances on first reading, 4-1, in the form the applicant filed, without the commission's changes. No date has been set for the second and final readings. At its November 5 meeting the Council directed the town manager to get Modica's offer to sell the property to the town, including price and financing, made public, and to report back at the next November meeting, which is November 17.
Already through the commission this year
Several familiar projects cleared this stage earlier in 2026:
- The Shoppes at Jupiter at U.S. 1 and Indiantown Road, across from Harbourside Place. The commission recommended the site plan changes 6-1 in June, clearing the way for a plaza makeover built around a Whole Foods Market and a Total Wine & More. The Council held the plan in July over truck traffic and the design of a proposed elongated roundabout at Indiantown Road, then approved it on October 6. The new owners, Ram Realty Advisors, have targeted late 2027 for Total Wine and spring 2028 for Whole Foods, with smaller shops opening in between.
- Seaglass, at 105 Rich Circle off Bush Road. The commission voted 7-0 in July to let the already-approved 23-unit multifamily project be built as either entirely rentals or entirely for-sale condominiums, at the developer's choice.
- The former Cemex site at 1666 North Old Dixie Highway, in Jupiter. The commission voted 7-0 in July to give the vacant 0.77-acre parcel, cleared when the Cemex plant was demolished in 2024, a General Industrial land use designation, setting up a redevelopment with professional office and warehouse buildings. This is a separate site from the former Cemex property on Old Dixie Highway in Tequesta, which has its own proposal before the Village Council.
- Bear's Club. The commission voted 7-0 in June for a PUD amendment and site plan that widen the club's Frederick Small Road secondary entrance and add a property owners' association maintenance building and a manned guardhouse. The Council gave it final approval in August.
In line, with no hearing date yet
The town's Current Major Projects list carries several more applications marked under review, none with a public hearing scheduled as of Thursday:
- Harbourside Place expansion, a roughly 56,600-square-foot, four-story retail, office and medical office building with two levels of parking at 200 North U.S. Highway 1.
- River Plaza, at 900 South U.S. Highway 1, a four-story, 38-unit residential building with underground parking.
- A four-story office building on about four acres at 108 and 110 Night Hawk Drive, in the Ritz-Carlton and Trump National area, which needs a land use change from residential to commercial.
- Planet Kids, a proposed day care on 174th Street North whose annexation into the town passed the Council on first reading in February. Its second reading was postponed in May, and its day care site plan is tied to land the town needs for the future Island Way South road.
- Jupiter Christian School's Legacy Campus, east of I-95 south of Indiantown Road, a school and performing arts campus with future multifamily homes on about 56 acres. The commission recommended it in March, but the Council tabled it in April, 4-1, in a dispute that included the cost of building Island Way South.
The dates that matter
- Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m.: Town Council hears Palmwood on first reading, decides the Walmart Depot, and is due the report on Modica's Suni Sands sale terms.
- Tuesday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m.: Planning and Zoning Commission hears the Beacon Park development plan. The agenda packet is typically posted about a week ahead.
- Tuesday, Dec. 15, 7 p.m.: Town Council hears the Beacon Park Island Way parcel on first reading and Palmwood on second reading.
- Jan. 19 and Feb. 16, 2027: Town Council readings on the main Beacon Park plan.
Jupiter Daily will cover the December 8 Beacon Park hearing when the town posts the recording, and will update this list as hearing dates are set for the projects still in line.
