89-2644 Ordinance
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING COMPREHENSIVE
ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 1891; AMENDING SUBSECTION
3-2 ENTITLED "TERMS DEFINED" BY CLARIFYING THE
DEFINITION FOR "HOSPITAL" AND ADDING DEFINITIONS
FOR "HOSPITAL-BASED PHYSICIAN" AND "HOSPIT AL
ST AFF"; AMENDING SUBSECTION 6-14 ENTITLED "RH
HOSPIT AL DISTRICT" BY AMENDING THE LIST OF
PERMITTED ACCESSORY HOSPIT AL FACILITIES AND
ADDING REGULA TIONS FOR MASTER PLANS FOR
HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT; AMENDING SUBSECTION 9-2
ENTITLED "OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIRED" BY
AMENDING THE OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS
FOR OFFICES AND CLINICS; AMENDING SECTION 21
ENTITLED "DESIGN REVIEW BOARD" BY INCLUDING THE
RH HOSPITAL DISTRICT IN SUBSECTION 21-3A, ENTITLED
"APPLICABILITY"; PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR
A REPEALER; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
89-2644
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: That Subsection 3-2 of Zoning Ordinance No. 1891 entitled "Terms Defined" is
hereby amended as follows:
3-2 Terms Defined.
A. For the purpose of this Ordinance, certain terms and words are hereby defined.
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83. HOSPITAL: ^ building or group of buildiAgs haying room facilities for
oyerAight patieAts, used for proyidiAg services for the iA patient medical
or surgieal care of sick or iajured humans, aRd which may include
related faeilities, eeAtral serviee facilities, aRd staff offices; provided
however, that sueR related faeilities must be iRcideRtal and subordinate
to the maiR use and must be and iRtegral part of tRe hospital operations.
Hospital related facilities iRelude NursiRg Homes aRd Convalescent
Homes or ExteRded Care Faeilities.
An institution licensed bv the State of Florida as a hosoital. having
facilities for in-oatients. oroviding medical or surgical care for humans
reauiring such treatment. and which may include related facilities such
as Nursing Homes. Convalescent Homes. home health agencies. hosoice
facil ities and accessory hosoital facilities as described in Section 6-14 B.2
of this Ordinance.
84. HOSPITAL STAFF: Physicians and other medical staff affilitated with.
and having staff orivileges at a hosoital who are not hosoital-based
ohvsicians.
85. HOSPITAL-BASED PHYSICIAN: A ohvsician who is affiliated with a
hosoital: I) as an anesthesiologist. radiologist. oathologist. or emergency
room doctor: or 2) as a fulltime hosoital emolovee: or 3) on a fuIltime
basis oursuant to a contract.
SECTION 2: That Subsection 6-14 of Zoning Ordinance No. 1891 entitled "Schedule of
District Regulations" is hereby amended to read as follows:
6-14 RH HOSPITAL DISTRICT
A. District Purpose. This district is designed to accommodate hospital facilities.
B. Uses Permitted. No land, water or structure may be used, in whole or in part,
except for one or more of the following permitted uses. Permitted uses that seIl,
serve or otherwise distribute alcoholic beverages in this district shall comply
with the standards and regulations found in Section 14.
1. Hospital
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2. Accessory Rospital facilities, eORsistiRg of lauRdry, ceRtralized services,
educatioRal aRd researcR facilities, recreatioRal facilities, staff offices,
parkiRg struetures aRd lots. All structures aRd parkiAg faeilities must
be subordiRate to the main use aAd must be an integral part of hospital
opera tioAs.
2. Accessorv hosoital facilities. consisting of:
a. Laundrv
b. Centralized Services
c. Educational. Research and Diagnostic Facilities
d. Recreational Facilities
e. Davcare Facilities
f. Place of Worshio
&.:. Out-oatient care facilities including hosoital-based clinics and
ambulatorv surgical centers
h. Offices for: 1) medical students. fellows. and residents:
administrative emolovees: nurses: laboratorv oersonnel: hosoital-
based ohvsicians: and. 2) ohvsicians and hosoital emolovees who
oerform hosoital functions and not the orovision of orivate
oatient care. These include deoartment heads and medical staff
resoonsible for hosoital emolovee health care. The offices
described in Section 6-14 B.2h shall not be included in the
comoutation which determines the maximum amount of hosoital
staff office soace aIlowed under this Ordinance.
!:. Offices for hosoital staff and their emolovees.which may include
examination rooms. excluding those identified in Section 6-14
B.2h orovided that:
11 The maximum oermitted amount of hosoital staff office
soace. without bonus. shaIl not exceed fifteen oercent
(15%) of the hosoital's gross floor area. excluding oarking
structures and other hosoital staff office soace.
2.1 The maximum oermitted amount of hosoital staff office
soace. with bonuses as set forth below. shall not exceed
twenty-five oercent (25%) of the hosoital's gross floor area.
excluding oarking structures and other hosoital staff
office soace.
li There shall be a bonus for the orovision of charity
and indigent care bv the hosoital. For each two
oercent (2%) of charity and Medicaid care in-
oatient days as a oercentage of total acute care days
less Medicare days orovided bv the hosoital and
reoorted to the State of Florida Deoartment of
Revenue bv the Health Care Cost Containment
Board for the year oreceding the date of aoolication
for a building oermit for hosoital staff offices.
there shall be a bonus of one oercent (1%) in
hosoital staff office soace. The maximum bonus
under this orovision shall not exceed three oercent
(3%) of the hosoital's gross floor area. excluding
oarking structures and other hosoital staff office
soace.
J2l There shall be a bonus of one SQuare foot of
hosoital staff office soace for each twenty-five
hundredths (0.25) gross SQuare feet of affordable
housing in the City of Miami Beach which is
constructed. rehabilitated. or ooerated by: I) the
office soace develooer: 2) the hosoital: and/or 3) a
hosoital affil ia ted entity. Afforda ble housing shall
be defined as sales housing with a retail sales orice
not in excess of ninety (90) oercent of monthlv
median Dade County new housing sales orice. or
rental housing rates (oroiect average) not in excess
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of thirty (30) oercent of the gross median Dade
County monthlv income. The maximum bonus
under this orovision shall not exceed two oercent
(2%) of the hosoital's groSS floor area. excluding
oarking structures and other hosoital staff office
soace.
D There shall be a bonus of hosoital staff office soace
for the ooeration of an on-camous hosoital teaching
orogram. accredited bv nationally recognized
orofessional accreditation boards. The ratio shall
be one hundred (100) SQuare feet of office soace for
each student. fellow. and resident enrolled in said
orogram on an average monthlv basis during the
three years oreceding the aoolication for a building
oermit for hosoital staff offices. The maximum
bonus under this orovision shall not exceed two
oercent (2%) of the hosoital's gross floor area.
excluding oarking structures and other hosoital
staff office soace.
Ql There shall be a bonus of one SQuare foot of
hosoital staff office soace for every four dollars
($4.00) contributed to the City of Miami Beach
Commercial Revitalization Fund. the terms and
reQuirements of which shall be established bv
resolution of the Miami Beach City Commission.
The maximum bonus under this orovision shall not
exceed one oercent (I %) of the hosoital's gross floor
area. excluding oarking structures and other
hosoital staff office soace.
~ There shall be a bonus of hosoital staff office soace
for the develooer and/or hosoital soonsored
ooeration of davcare facilities in the City of Miami
Beach. The ratio shall be one hundred (100) SQuare
feet of office soace oer each child. which the
davcare facility is licensed to admit. The maximum
bonus under this orovision shall not exceed one
oercent (1%) of the hosoital's gross floor area.
excluding oarking structures and other hosoital
staff office soace.
n There shall be a bonus of hosoital staff office soace
for the ooeration of an emergency room on the
hosoital camous which is ooen to the oublic twenty-
four (24) hours a day. seven (7) days a week. as
regulated by the State of Florida. The bonus under
this orovision shall be three oercent (3%) of the
hosoital's gross floor area. excluding oarking
structures and other hosoital staff office soace.
g} There shall be a bonus for encouraging new
ohvsicians and other medical orofessionals to
relocate their offices to Miami Beach. New
ohysicians and medical orofessionals are those
individuals who do not have existing offices and
occuoational licenses in the City of Miami Beach
one year orior to the issuance of a building oermit
for hosoital staff office soace. In order to receive
this bonus. the hosoital shall execute a written
agreement with the Planning and Zoning
Deoartment orior to the issuance of a building
oermit for the construction of hosoital staff offices.
which sets forth the amount of soace that will be
a vaila ble for new ohysicians and medical staff. For
each twenty-five oercent (25%) of the orooosed
office soace which the hosoital agrees to lease to
new ohysicians and medical orofessionals on the
medical staff of the hosoital. there shall be a bonus
of one oercent (1 %) of the hosoital's gross floor
area. excluding oarking structures and other
hosoital staff office soace.The maximum bonus
under this orovision shall not exceed three oercent
(3%) of the hosoital's gross floor area. excluding
oarking structures and other hosoital staff office
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soace.
hl The Design Review Board may grant a bonus of
additional hosoital staff office soace for
exceotional achievement in urban design of soace
which is visible from a oublic street or causeway
and which may be located either on or off the
hosoital camous or on oublic orooerty. The
amenities listed below are more fully defined in
Section 12-5E-3 of the Zoning Ordinance. For each
Design Review Board aooroved amenity. there shall
be a bonus range oermitting increased hosoital staff
office soace as a oercentage of the hosoital gross
floor area. excluding oarking structures and other
hosoital staff office soace. as shown below:
Planting/landscaoing .10% to .35%
Paving/grading .05% to .15%
Water feaures .05% to .15%
Signs/graohics .10% to .25%
Street furniture .05% to .10%
Lighting .05% to .10%
Arcades .05% to .15%
Site Planning .10% to .25%
Building Design .20% to .50%
Total Bonus .75% to 2.00%
The maximum bonus under this orovision shall not
exceed two oercent (2%) of the hosoital's gross
floor area. excluding oarking structures and other
hosoital staff office soace.
Jl All hosoital staff office soace. including other soace.
renovated soace. or new construction. shall be identified
in the hosoital's Master Develooment Plan. as reQuired in
Section 6-14 (D).
11. No building oermit shall be issued for hosoital staff office
soace under the bonus orovisions of Section 6-14.2 unless
the aoolicant has submitted evidence of comoliance with
these orovisions. Evidence of comoliance shall consist of
I) a check to the City of Miami Beach in the amount
reQuired for contribution to the commercial revitalization
fund: 2) issuance of Certificate of Occuoancy for the
affordable housing or licensed daycare facility or other
aoorooriate evidence: 3) reoorts of the Health Care Cost
Containment Board showing hosoital's contribution to
indigent. charity care: or 4) evidence of a teaching
orogram and/or emergency room: or 5) evidence that
medical staff did not have Miami Beach occuoational
licenses or offices earlier than one year orior to the
issuance of a building oermit for hosoital staff offices: or
6) Design Review Board aooroval of design amenities.
~ Hosoitals with a valid building oermit oursuant to olans
and aoolications for the construction of staff office soace
at the effective date of this Ordinance shall be oermitted
to retain and OCCUoy such soace. This hosoital staff office
soace shall be considered as an acceSSory use. and oarking
shall be orovided at the rate of one soace oer four hundred
SQuare feet of hosoital staff office soace. This hosoital
staff office soace shall be included in the comoutation
which determines the maximum amount of hosoital staff
office soace allowed under this Ordinance. This oermitted
soace shall be exemot from the orovisions of Section 21-
3.A.IO of this Ordinance. Prior to the issuance of an
occuoational license. floor olans and other suooorting
documentation shall be submitted to the Planning and
Zoning Deoartment indicating the dimensions and location
of each hosoital staff office. All hosoital staff with
existing offices in the RH Hosoital District shall obtain
City occuoationallicenses within 90 days of the effective
date of this ordinance.
Q1 Hosoitals with existing hosoital office soace which is
occuoied by hosoital staff at the effective date of this
Ordinance but which have not received valid building
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oermits for "staff offices" for said soace shall be oermitted
to retain such soace based uoon the aoolication of
orovisions listed in Section 6-14 B.2.i.( 1 and 2). This office
soace shall be included in the comoutation which
determines the maximum amount of hosoital staff office
soace allowed under this Ordinance. This hosoital staff
office soace shall be considered as an accessory use. and
the reQuired oarking as set forth in Section 9 shall be
orovided. This soace shall be exemot from the orovisions
of Section 21-3.A.I0 of this Ordinance. Within sixty (60)
days of the effective date of this ordinance. each hosoital
shall submit to the Planning and Zoning Deoartment a
floor olan and suooorting documentation indicating the
dimensions and location of each hosoital staff office. All
hosoital staff with offices in the RH Hosoital District
shall obtain City occuoational licenses within 90 days of
the effective date of this ordinance.
1. Parking structures and lots.
k. Related facilities which are incidental to and customarily
associated with a hosoital.
1. Commercial service facilities:
11 Service facilities shall be restricted to cafeteria or
resta u ra n t. florist shoo. gi ft shoo. au tom a tic teller
machine. credit union. oharmacy. newsoaoer and magazine
stand.
2.1 Services shall be oermitted and available exclusively for
use by medical staff. hosoital oersonnel. oatients and
visitors of the hosoital.
Jl Outside advertising or signs (including wall signs) shall be
orohibited.
11. Commercial service facilities shall not exceed three oercent
(3%) of the hosoital floor area within a hosoital. excluding
oarking structures and hosoital staff office soace. nor shall
they exceed seven oercent (7%) of the office floor area
within an office building.
All acceSSOry structures and oarking facilities shall be subordinate to the main use and
incidental to and customarily associated with a hosoital.
C. Minimum Yards.
Hospi tal Front Rear Side
St. Francis 25' 40' 15'
Mt. Sinai 25' 40' 15'
South Shore 20' 20' IS'
Heart Institute 20' 20' IS'
IslaAd View 20' 20' 15'
The enlargement of existing RH Hospital Districts and the establishment of new RH Hospital
Districts with their respective yard setbacks shall be subject to City Commission approval.
D. Master Plan for Hosoital Develooment
By January I. 1990. each hosoital within the RH Hosoital District shall oreoare and submit
to the Planning and Zoning Deoartment a Master Plan for Hosoital Develooment for the years
1993 and 2000. The hosoitals shall have the right to amend their Master Plans on a Quarterlv
basis by submitting amendments to the Planning and Zoning Deoartment.
The Master Plan shall contain. at a minimum. the following:
L Inventory of existing facilities and services
2. Pro iected exoansion olans for new construction and/or substantial reha bilita tion
of existing facilities indicating the tyoe. size and location of each facilitv.
3. Prooosed site olans showing the ohvsical location of the items in Section D.2
above.
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4. Goals. obiectives. and oolicies.
5. Consistency with the City's Comorehensive Plan.
6. Data and information oertaining to new construction or substantial
rehabilitation to be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Deoartment for the
ouroose of determining whether said work is within the level of services as set
forth in the Comorehensive Plan.
1:. A traffic imoact study that would substantiate that the resulting imoact from
any orooosed new develooment of the hosoital would not cause the level of
service on the neighboring streets to fall below the standards contained in the
City'S Comorehensive Plan.
8. An air Qualitv study that would substantiate that the resulting imoact of any
orooosed new develooment in the hosoital would not cause the ambient air
Qualitv of the neighborhood surrounding the hosoitals to exceed the standards
established by the Dade County Deoartment of Environmental Resources
Management.
The Master Plan shall be uodated every five years and considered as suooorting
documentation in the City's Comorehensive Plan. as amended: however. it shall not be a
comoonent of the Comorehensive Plan.
No building oermit for any new construction or substantial rehabilitation shall be issued after
January I. 1990 unless it is consistent with the hosoital's Master Plan.
SECTION 3: That Subsection 9-2 of Zoning Ordinance No. 1891 entitled "Parking
Regulations" is hereby amended to read as follows:
9-2 OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIRED
Except as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, when any building or structure is
erected or structurally altered, accessory parking spaces shall be provided for the
building, structure, or additional floor area as follows:
A. Parking District NO.1 -
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16. "RH" Hospital Districts. The following parking regulations shall apply
to structures situated in the "RH" Hospital District:
The number of off-street parking spaces required for any structure shall
be determined by the primary use of the structure in accordance with the
requirements as follows:
a. Hospi tal - 1 and 1/2 spaces per hospital bed.
b. Educational facility - 1 space per 5 seats in the main auditorium
or 1 space per 3 seats per classroom, whichever is grea ter.
c. Offices, elinics Offices and clinics as identified in Section 6-14
B.2 g and h - 1 space for each 400 square feet of floor area.
~ Hosoital staff offices as identified in Section 6-14 B.2 i-I soace
for each 350 SQuare feet of floor area.
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SECTION 4: That Subsection 21-3 of Zoning Ordinance No. 1891 entitled "Design Review
Board" is hereby amended to read as follows:
21-3 APPLICABILITY AND EXEMPTIONS.
A. Applicability. All building permits for new construction, alterations, or
additions to existing buildings, including fences, parking lots, walls and signage
whether new or change of copy, within the following areas shall be subject to
review under the Design Review procedures. No building permit shall be issued
without the express written approval by the Design Review Board or otherwise
provided for in these regulations for the following areas:
ill Anv structure located within the RH Hosoital District. Said review shall
be limited in scooe to the criteria soecified in Section 21-2.B. C. D. H.
I. J. and N.
SECTION 5: REPEALER That all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith
be and the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 6: SEVERABILITY If any section, subsection, clause or prOVlSlon of this
Ordinance is held invalid, the remainder shall not be affected by the such invalidity.
SECTION 7: EFFECTIVE DATE This Ordinance shall take effect on 20th
day of
May
, 1989.
PASSED and ADOPTED this
ATTEST:
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1st reading - AprilS, 1989
2nd reading - May 10, 1989
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