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Xenia council adopts zoning rules for freestanding emergency rooms, hospitals
Summary
The Xenia City Council voted May 8 to adopt Ordinance 2024-32, creating a new zoning category and site rules for freestanding emergency rooms and updating hospital and long-term care facility rules; the ordinance becomes effective in early June and will lift a moratorium on freestanding ER construction.
The Xenia City Council on May 8 adopted Ordinance 2024-32, amending the city's land development code to add a definition and siting conditions for freestanding emergency rooms, update rules for hospitals and for personal care and skilled nursing facilities, and add regulations for associated helipads. The council voted to untable the ordinance and then to approve it; the ordinance is expected to become effective in early June, after a 30-day waiting period.
City staff told the council the updates are intended to reflect changes in health care delivery and to set limits on where higher-traffic, higher-impact uses may locate. "[This] would do the following: establish a definition for freestanding ERs, regulate freestanding ERs as a conditional use in the B-3 and P-1 districts, require the principal building for…
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