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Planning Board clears downtown code change to define "hospital," citing emergency access, buffer and site-size rules
Summary
The Planning Board unanimously recommended a Downtown Master Plan and zoning text amendment April 15 to define “hospital” and add special requirements — including a 500-foot buffer from residential areas, a two-acre minimum site size, structured-parking preference and separate ambulance circulation.
The West Palm Beach Planning Board unanimously recommended approval April 15 of a text amendment to the Downtown Master Plan and the general zoning code to add an explicit definition and special requirements for “hospital” as a permitted downtown use.
Roger Ramdeen, counsel for the applicant, said the amendment clarifies where hospital uses fit within the Downtown Master Plan and fixes an inconsistency in the code that had previously classified hospitals under medical-office/office language. “A hospital is already a permitted use in the…
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