Outdoor kitchens in Boca Raton.

Palm Beach County sits outside the HVHZ overall, but the coastal wind-borne debris region still runs 160–170 mph design wind speed, and the HVHZ line itself cuts through Boca along the coastal and Intracoastal exposure gradient — a Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club lot on the water can fall inside the HVHZ while a St. Andrews or Le Lac lot a few minutes west does not, which changes which product approvals and NOAs the design has to reference. Boca's country club and gated communities run their own architectural review on top of the city's: Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, St. Andrews and Le Lac all have committees that sign off on setback, roofline pitch and permitted stone or finish palettes before a city permit is even pulled, and that review is usually the longer pole in the schedule. The city sits at roughly 13 feet average elevation, and a large share of Boca is still mapped inside FEMA's special flood hazard area, so a slab-on-grade kitchen still needs the standard elevation-certificate math even away from the immediate waterfront.

The buyer here skews toward a country-club membership household — Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, St. Andrews, Le Lac — where the project has to satisfy an HOA architectural committee as much as the owner, and material and color choices get pre-screened against community standards before a shovel goes in the ground. Boca also carries a heavier seasonal population than Miami or Fort Lauderdale, so winter (November through April) is when both the sales conversations and the installs cluster.