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Planning Commission recommends approvals to create planned public hospital district for Sarasota Memorial Venice campus
Summary
The commission recommended approval of a text amendment, comprehensive‑plan amendment and rezoning to establish a Planned Public Hospital (PPH) district for the 65‑acre Sarasota Memorial Venice campus, allowing up to a 150‑foot height and a 3.0 FAR to support long‑term campus master planning.
The Venice Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend City Council approve a suite of land‑use changes to enable long‑term master planning at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH) Venice campus. The package includes a Land Development Regulations text amendment to create a Planned Public Hospital district (PPH), a comprehensive‑plan amendment to add PPH as an implementing zoning district in the mixed‑use corridor and to raise the corridor’s allowable floor‑area ratio for PPH properties to 3.0, and a rezoning of the hospital property from Laurel West to the new PPH district.
Planner Britney Smith outlined the requests and the staff analysis. The hospital parcel is about 65 acres at 2600 Laurel Road East adjacent to I‑75 and Plaza Venezia; staff found the LDR text amendment and comp plan amendment consistent with the City of Venice Comprehensive Plan strategies cited in the…
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