Council Kills Lotus Palm Bay, Rejects 1,350-Unit Development 5-0
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Palm Bay, FL -- Council Meeting 2026-10 packed a full agenda on March 19, 2026, producing one headline result that drew a packed room: a 5-0 vote to deny the Lotus Palm Bay development, a 1,350-unit mixed-use project that had been in the pipeline since 2022. The rejection came after Deputy Chief Jeff Spears of the Palm Bay Police Department told council that priority-two response times in the southern district are already averaging eight and a half minutes on 17,000 calls per year. A fire department official added that Station 9’s response time to the project site is…
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