Staff recommend ordinance authorizing freestanding emergency rooms; council debates conditional-use limits
City staff recommended adopting a text amendment regulating freestanding emergency rooms after a rapid regional survey; councilmembers debated whether to make the facilities conditional uses and whether to require dedicated turn lanes as part of site-specific approval.
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Brandon Shadd, the city's development services director, told the council on March 23 that staff had surveyed 18 freestanding emergency facilities across South Florida and continued to recommend adoption of the proposed ordinance (No. 5,767) to define and regulate those facilities.
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