FROM: Cale Curtis, City Manager
DATE: July 21, 2020
Title
PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION REQUEST ON A COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITY FOR VETERANS SUFFERING FROM POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER, TO BE LOCATED AT 603 MELALEUCA DRIVE, MARGATE, FL 33063.
BACKGROUND: City Code Section 3.30(4) - Reasonable Accommodation, provides that, The city manager, or his/her designee, shall have the authority to consider and act on requests for reasonable accommodation, after notice and public hearing to receive comments, input and information from the public (provided, however, the city manager or designee, shall not be required to render their decision at said public hearing)….”
On June 8, 2020, Attorney Kyle Teal emailed City staff, a Reasonable Accommodation application on behalf of his client Margate Care for Heroes c/o Miryam Jimenez. This request is seeking accommodation for a community residential treatment facility for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse disorder, to be located at 603 Melaleuca Drive, Margate, FL 33063.
The final page of this request includes the following text:
“Dear Ms. Jimenez,
Please allow this correspondence to serve as confirmation that your intended uses of the property located at 603 Melaleuca Dr, Margate, FL, (the “Property”) as a DCF Licensed Residential Level 1 treatment facility and as an AHCA licensed Residential Treatment Facility are permitted uses at that location.”