A high-end luxury development planned for Fort Lauderdale beach is causing a high degree of tension among beach-area residents — and this fight is far from over.

The contours of this controversy should be very familiar. Once again, Fort Lauderdale residents are up in arms about what they see as a city much too eager to kowtow to developers’ demands.

On Oct. 15, the city’s Planning and Zoning Board approved the project , known as Amalfi, which would rise to a height of 240 feet, the equivalent of 24 stories, on State Road A1A south of Oakland Park Boulevard.

The zoning board’s 7-to-2 vote came after a contentious two-hour hearing that produced strong opinions for and against the high-rise project.

That might have been the last word on the project, but for one city commissioner. Comm

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