File #: ID 2020-262    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Public Hearing Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 7/14/2020 In control: Public Notice
On agenda: 7/21/2020 Final action:
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.
Attachments: 1. BACKGROUND: MCH REASONABLE ACCOMODATION APPLICATION, 2. BACKGROUND: EMAIL FROM APPLICANT-BUSINESS PLANS- 070120, 3. BACKGROUND: MEMO_603 MELALEUCA DR_REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION, 4. BACKGROUND: REZONING APPLICATION, 5. BACKGROUND: 2020 LBTR_HALFWAY HOUSE, 6. BACKGROUND: 2020 LBTR_RTF, 7. BACKGROUND: 2019 LBTR_RTF, 8. BACKGROUND: COMPARABLE TRAFFIC STUDY, 9. BACKGROUND: PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
Related files: ID 2020-374
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FROM:                     Cale Curtis, City Manager

 

DATE:                     July 21, 2020

 

 

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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.

 

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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.”