Delray Beach planning board backs 24‑hour freestanding ER at West Atlantic site, with conditions

The Delray Beach Planning and Zoning Board voted 6‑0 on March 16 to recommend the City Commission approve a conditional‑use permit allowing a 24‑hour freestanding emergency department at 3921 West Atlantic Avenue, subject to conditions requiring conformance with the applicant’s conceptual site plan, placement of the ambulance entrance on the Atlantic Avenue side, and installation of the proposed landscaping buffer.

John Roach, an in‑house planner for the applicant, told the board the revised plan relocates the structure about 23 feet south and rotates the building so ambulances enter from West Atlantic Avenue. "There will be approximately 393 feet of separation between the closest point of our building ... and the closest residential unit within High Point," Roach said, and the applicant has increased a parking‑lot landscape buffer to roughly 50 feet and proposed specimen live oaks and hedging along the High Point property line.

Rebecca Dosser, principal planner in Development Services,…