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Board approves multiple sign variances for Memorial Manor emergency facility after neighbors raise light and scale concerns
Summary
The board granted variances allowing larger monument and facade signs for a Memorial Manor campus emergency facility after applicant reduced sign sizes from earlier proposals and pledged to work with adjacent community representatives to mitigate brightness and glare.
The Pembroke Pines Planning & Zoning Board approved a package of sign variances for a campus that includes a standalone emergency facility and a skilled-nursing facility known as Memorial Manor, despite concerns from nearby residents about color, size and nighttime glare.
Duane Dickerson, attorney for the applicant, presented multiple zoning variance requests (including ZV2025‑18, ZV2025‑19 and a variance related to total allowed site signage) to allow monument signs of 43.57 square feet (code allows 24 square feet), two primary-facade wall signs totaling about 88 square feet (code allows 60 square feet for a primary facade), and an increase of the site total to roughly 163 square feet (code allows 120 square feet). Dickerson said the changes respond to earlier board feedback and are intended to direct visitors, emergency responders and patients to the correct entrances on a campus with separate emergency and Memorial Manor facilities.
Board members and residents objected to a deep red/brown stripe and the placement of a large west-facing wall sign that could be visible to nearby apartment buildings. Residents and board members asked about brightness and light spill; the applicant's sign consultant said the key wall sign is designed at about 1,620 lumens, which the applicant characterized as modest for a wall sign, and that the fixtures include dimmers so brightness can be adjusted. Staff confirmed that the city's code regulates parking-lot lighting but does not set a lumens limit for signs.
After public comment, the applicant agreed to meet with Holly Brook representatives and counsel to address lumens and brightness concerns; staff said the building-permit process would include follow-up to confirm any commitments. The board voted separately on each variance; motions to approve the requested variances were made and passed.
The board recorded that the applicant reduced an originally larger sign to about 43.57 square feet and that the applicant would coordinate with the adjacent community to address brightness or glare if problems arise.
