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Staff recommend ordinance authorizing freestanding emergency rooms; council debates conditional-use limits
Summary
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.
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.
Shadd said the staff found 15 standalone sites and three in shopping-center-type properties, that 14 of the 18 were located on arterials with direct vehicular access, and that all 18 had covered ambulance drop-off areas. "We continue to recommend it be adopted as directed," Shadd said.
Councilmembers pressed staff…
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