House Oversight — Estate records
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016597
Trump Properties LLC, 515 N. County Rd. - App
- Pages
- 2
- Text
- Searchable
Text as released
Machine-read from the scan. Names, dates and numbers can be misread — check anything you rely on against the original page.
TRUMP PROPERTIES LLC
c/o The Mar-a-Lago Club
1100 South Ocean Boulevard
Palm Beach, Florida 33480
July 3, 2008
Ms. Susan Eichhorn, Town Clerk
Town of Palm Beach
360 South County Road
Palm Beach, FL 33480
Re: Trump Properties LLC
515 North County Road, Palm Beach, Florida
Dear Ms. Eichhorn:
TSP.- P2418
rZr13
pc_ 72ff
01)-1 19 cs7)1)
KA.4.4.44L
thte-07\_
RECEIVED
JUL 7 2008
TOWN CLERK
Pursuant to Section 18-177 of the Town of Palm Beach Code of Ordinances (the "Code"), Trump
Properties LLC ("Trump" or "Appellant") hereby appeals to the Town Council a certain June 25,
2008 decision of the Architectural Review Commission ("ARCOM") regarding the residence at
515 North County Road, Palm Beach, Florida (the "Residence").
Statement of Facts
Trump purchased the Residence on January 6, 2005. The Residence was subject to an
Agreement between the Town of Palm Beach and the prior owner, Abraham Gosman, dated
January 31, 1990 and recorded in Official Records Book 6350, Page 1207, of the Public Records
of Palm Beach County, Florida ("Agreement"). The Agreement provides that a hedge
contiguous to North County Road will be maintained and that in the event the hedge is damaged
or destroyed, it will be replaced. The Agreement refers to the "hedge" in 9 separate places on the
first page of the Agreement. The Agreement nowhere refers to, or requires, any trees.
On April 7, 2008 the Town gave notice of a code violation alleging that the hedge had not been
maintained or replaced. The original hedge had been destroyed by the hurricanes of 2005 and
two subsequent replacement hedges had died due to salt spray. Therefore, Trump asked to
replace the ficus hedge with silver buttonwood hedge material. The Town staff advised that such
decision would have to be made by ARCOM. The Appellant appeared before ARCOM on May
28, 2008. ARCOM approved silver buttonwood hedge material. ARCOM also requested that
trees be planted and requested a tree planting plan. Trum
[…]