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week after the general election in March 2025. Suc-
cessor Commissioners shall be elected for terms to
fill seats for terms of two four years or until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified to fill seats as
terms expire in the respective districts. Also, for the
municipal general election of March 2021, the term
of office of the Mayor shall expire when a successor
is sworn in but not later than one week after the
municipal election in March of 2025. Successor May-
ors shall be elected for terms of four (4) years or until
their successors are elected and qualified.
Multifamily Project From Scrapyard Site
Aviara East Pompano is planned to have 228
apartments, including an unspecified number of units
for workforce housing. A 228-unit apartment project
in Pompano Beach will move forward after city com-
missioners rezoned most of the development site, a
longtime scrapyard. Pompano Beach commissioners
on Tuesday night rezoned from “heavy business” (B-
4) to “general business” (B-3) most of the multi-par-
cel site for Aviara East Pompano on the southwest
corner of South Dixie Highway and McNab Road.
When the commissioners gave initial approval to the
rezoning at their Oct. 7 meeting, they also gave final
approval to a density bonus for the Aviara East Pom-
pano development, in the form of so-called “flex”
units. The developer, Boca Raton-based MAG Real
Estate & Development, successfully proposed the
inclusion of 188 “flex” units, or bonus units, in addi-
tion to the maximum number allowed under the city’s
zoning rules. “That’s how we got to 228 units,” Maher
Hanna, president of MAG Real Estate, told The Real
Deal. “We went through a density increase, a rezon-
ing, a lot of other stuff to be able to do 228 units.”
The City Commission noted that most of the Aviara
East Pompano development site long served as a
junkyard for discarded vehicles. “It has been an eye-
sore,” Hanna said. “A scrapyard was there. They had
cars stacked over 30, 40 feet high. You could see
them from everywhere, even from the highway.”
Hanna said MAG Real Estate cleared the junked
vehicles from the property after paying $2.2 million in
2017 to assemble the parcels for the Aviara East
Pompano site. “We’ve had a slew of people offering
us close three times what we paid,” but the property
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