Board approves special use for clinical research center at 3750 W. 16th Ave, limited hours and patient count

The Hialeah Planning and Zoning Board approved a special use permit to allow a clinical research center in Unit 236U at 3750 West Sixteenth Avenue, with conditions limiting hours, patient loads and requiring a recorded declaration restricting the use to the specified unit.

Planning staff described the property as a mixed-use shopping center in an M-1 industrial district with existing medical offices and a current parking supply of 68 spaces. The proposed clinical research center would occupy 712 square feet and operate by appointment only from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with six staff members on site; staff recommended approval because the center would be treated as a medical office for parking calculations and did not create additional parking impacts.

Applicant Guillermo Sondon and consultant Mirnaya Labasi described the center’s role contracting with pharmaceutical companies to conduct trials for investigational drugs and devices. Labasi clarified the center’s role: it serves as a contract research site to perform studies selected by sponsors; operations do not include overnight stays. Staff recommended conditions including a declaration of restriction that the clinical research activity remain in Unit 236U only, that any expansion require a new special use permit, a maximum of three patients per hour for Unit 236U, appointment-only scheduling, and no overnight stays. The board approved the special use permit with those conditions (motion by Missus Enriquez; second by mister Elise).