Town Council backs proposed zoning amendment to halt formula restaurants
Worried that other chain restaurants would follow Starbucks onto the island, the council in 2006 imposed zoning-in-progess rules to block chain restaurants while the town staff refined criteria to define those restaurants. Iler Planning Group was hired to develop the new regulations for the Town of Palm Beach.
The guidelines tentatively approved Monday would define a formula restaurant as one belonging to a chain of three or more establishments nationwide and meeting at least two of three additional criteria.