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Boca Raton council agrees to delay freestanding emergency‑room ordinance for two weeks
Summary
Councilmember Wigder asked to postpone consideration of Ordinance 5767, which would regulate freestanding emergency rooms; council members requested amendments limiting locations near school zones, adding arterial access and radius restrictions, and asked staff to return with changes for the Feb. 24 meeting.
Councilmember Wigder asked the Boca Raton City Council on Monday to postpone consideration of Ordinance 5767, a proposal to regulate freestanding emergency rooms, so staff could prepare targeted amendments addressing where such facilities should be allowed.
Wigder told the workshop that his suggested amendments would make the use conditional in certain LERP parcels, add a radius restriction to prevent facilities from clustering within a mile of one another, require arterial road access rather than only secondary or tertiary…
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