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PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD
Meeting Date: JUNE 28, 2023
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TEXT AMENDMENT RELATED TO PARKING, MEDICAL USES, AND FEE SCHEDULE
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Request: Text Amendment
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Project Planner: Daniel Keester-O'Mills (954-786-5541 / daniel.keester@copbfl.com)
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Summary:
The Development Services Department has prepared a text amendment to Chapter 155 which proposes several changes related to minimum parking requirements, health care uses and updating the fees. The proposed changes seek to: strike a parking reduction related to residential uses in certain areas of the city to establish a minimum parking standard city-wide, to clarify the permitted treatment and services that may be offered at various medical uses and amend use standards consistent with changes to the state statutes, and update fees since the last assessment in 2014.
Below is a strike-thru & underlined version of the proposed amendments.
* Parking Amendments: Recent projects have brought to light a parking reduction in the northwest area of the city, which could allow residential developments to provide less than 1 parking space per dwelling unit. Staff is recommending to strike this exemption, and thus all residential developments would be subject to the same standards.
* Health Care Uses: Recent changes to the state statutes have added a new use "hospital-based off-campus emergency department." Staff has drafted the proposed amendment to modify the requirements of the medical uses to include this definition, and standards for where these medical uses may be located.
* Updated Fees: The fee schedule has not been updated since 2014. The original methodology for the adopted fees related to cost recovery of the estimated staff time to evaluate the application. Based on updated procedures, changes to the staff, and increases to the salary s...
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