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HomeMy WebLinkAboutVI(D) Health Central Hospital Expansion 2000, Preliminary/Final Site Plan, Project No LS-2000-015 Agenda 5-01-2001 Item VI D "CENTER OF GOOD LIVING-PRIDE OF WEST ORANGE" MAYOR•COMMISSIONER Ocoee , . S.SCOTT VANDERGRIFT o�. CITY OF OCOEE� COMMISSIONERS 150 N.LAKESHORE DRIVE DANNY HOWELL SCOTT ANDERSON OCOEE,FLORIDA 34761-2258 RUSTY JOHNSON r+ aV (407)905-3100 NANCY J.PARKER 4.of Go00 STAFF REPORT ACTING CITY MANAGER JIM GLEASON DATE: April 20, 2001 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission Members FROM: Joanna R. Dyson, Senior Planner 9 THROUGH: Russ Wagner, AICP, Director of Planning 07 SUBJ: Health Central Diagnostic and Emergency Room Expansion Preliminary/Final Site Plan Project# LS-2000-015 ISSUE: Should the Mayor and City Commission recommend approval of the Health Central Diagnostic and Emergency Room Expansion Preliminary/Final Site Plan? BACKGROUND: This project consists of an expansion to the hospital with some corresponding renovation to each floor of the existing facility. Through the use of carefully phased construction plans, existing facilities will remain in full service throughout the duration of the project. The project includes the addition of approximately 100,000 square feet of floor area on six levels being added to the eastern edge of the existing hospital structure. Renovation internally within the existing structure is planned on an additional 50,000 square feet. The proposed floor area expansions and interior renovations will accommodate several improvements to the existing 141-bed facility, mainly to provide expanded support which will serve those existing beds. The highlights of these service expansions are as follows: 1st floor and garden level - additions to administrative services and the loading dock on the garden level, lab and radiology service expansions, emergency and admissions improvements 2r floor- surgery and respiratory therapy additions 3rd floor- nursery and obstetric expansions 4th floor- pediatric nursing improvements on the fourth floor 5th floor- cardiology and pulmonary service additions 6th floor- penthouse The garden level and first floor area expansions will push the building envelo a outward approximately 20,000 square feet (on each level), while the second throug fifth floor expansions range from 9,000 to approximately 20,000 square feet on each fl or. Pow A Protect ocowe's;Dater Resources 4/19/01 Hospital Expansion Page 2 The existing hospital complex includes 758 parking spaces, with an additional 437 currently under construction. The proposed expansion will displace 90 parking spaces, leaving a total of 1,105 parking spaces within the hospital complex after the expansion is complete. DISCUSSION: A Technical Staff Review Committee (TSRC) meeting was held for this project on January 30, 2001. At this meeting, the Planning Department requested several modifications to the plan, some of which were resolved through discussions at TSRC. The applicant resubmitted a set of plans on February 22, 2001, in order to address the issues that were raised at TSRC. There was significant discussion at TSRC regarding the need.to update the perimeter landscape buffers to meet the current Code, or Ordinance #99-23. It is the City's policy to request upgrades to meet the new Code whenever a floor area expansion is proposed, even if the site layout for an existing building was approved under a prior, less restrictive Code. The applicant has provided a comparison of the existing landscaping versus the amount of landscaping required under the current.Code. There are a great deal of extra understory trees and a shortage of shade trees shown by this comparison. Perimeter landscaping will need to be corrected to reduce the deficiency of shade trees at the next phase of hospital expansion, known as the Medical Office Building, or MOB, which we expect to be submitted for review some time in the next few months. Pedestrian circulation upgrades in several areas of the site have been accommodated with this plan. However, along Old Winter Garden Road, the Applicant plans to coordinate future phases of hospital expansion to include better sidewalk connections. The future hospital site sidewalks will be coordinated with planned public improvements to Old Winter Garden Road. Traffic impacts for the diagnostic and emergency room expansion have been discussed at several meetings between City staff and the Applicant's representatives over the past four months. The current expansion is directly attributed to support services for the existing 141 hospital beds. For that reason, traffic impacts for this phase are estimated to be limited. However, the next phase of expansion, or MOB addition, will involve significant traffic analysis to gauge the cumulative transportation impacts of hospital growth. A traffic methodology meeting has been held for the next phase of hospital growth (MOB), and a proposed comprehensive assessment of the hospital traffic impacts has been agreed upon. 4/19/01 Hospital Expansion Page 3 DRC RECOMMENDATION: The DRC met to review this project on March 19th, 2001. .At the DRC meeting, there was discussion regarding the extent of additional landscaping that would be required in future phases of hospital expansion. The DRC voted unanimously to recommend approval of the project, subject to a number of conditions. The applicant resubmitted revised plans dated April 4, 2001, which address the technical changes requested at DRC. PLANNING &ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: The Planning and Zoning Commission reviewed this project at their April 10th, 2001 meeting. A public hearing was held, and two citizens spoke with questions about the project. One resident asked whether the current expansion would involve condemnation of existing homes near the hospital. City staff and the applicant clarified that no existing homes are directly impacted by the current expansion. Another citizen spoke, representing the adjacent medical office directly east of the hospital. He had objections about the construction traffic related to the previously-approved parking lot expansion; and had questions about the notification process for the parking lot expansion that is currently under construction. Staff explained that there is an advertising process, abutting property owners are notified for all large-scale developments, and these documents are available for review by the public. The applicant asserted that construction traffic should not cut through adjacent properties, and that the trucks will be diverted to areas within the hospital site. Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission members had questions for staff and the applicant about the timing of the expansion, and how future landscaping will be •phased. The members generally spoke favorably about the hospital's impact on the community. The P&Z Commission voted unanimously to approve_the Preliminary/Final Site Plan, subject to the conditions recommended by staff. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Based upon the recommendation of the DRC and P&Z Commission, Staff respectfully recommends that the Mayor and City Commission approve the Health Central Diagnostic and Emergency Room Expansion Preliminary and Final Site Plan, as date stamped received by the City on April 4, 2001, subject to the following conditions of approval: -Approval of a waiver request to exceed the 45-foot height limit normally required for structures in C-2 zoning; and, - The traffic study now underway is to address cumulative phases of hospital expansion, and shall consider the impacts of the Emergency Room/Diagnostic Expansion, as well as the pending medical office expansion impacts. This study 4/19/01 Hospital Expansion Page 4 shall be completed and accepted prior to review of the proposed medical office expansion; and, - The Health Central Medical Office. Building (MOB), or next phase of hospital expansion shall be subject to requirements which will upgrade the landscaping and pedestrian circulation system to the extent required by City Ordinance #99-23 (commercial and industrial design standards). Attachments: Copy of Public Hearing Advertisement Preliminary/Final Site Plan for Health Central Expansion date stamped April 4, 2001 O:\CALEXANDER\ALL_DATA\CAPDFILE\Staff Reports\SR2001\SR01019 CC.doc Copy of Public Hearing Advertisement Date Published - Orlando Sentinel THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2001 Advertisement NOTICE OF PIBUC HEARINGS CITY OF OCOEE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that the OCOEE ANDING COMMISSIONNwill h ON. a PUBLIC HEARING on Tuesday, . April 10,2001 at their regular ses. • sion,at 7:30 p.m.,or as soon there. oiler as possible,and the OCOEE CITY COMMISSION will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on Tuesday, May I.2001 al their regular session, of 7:15 p.m.,or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Commission Chambers, Ocoee City Hall. 150 North Lakeshore Drive. Ocoee. Florida to consider approval of the Preliminary/Final Site Plan for HEALTH CENTRAL HOSPITAL dhtheocrefa on tesnoulstonero local. and Blackwood Avenue. • The complete project file,including a legal description of.the subject Properly,may be inspected al the Ocoee Planning Deparlment, 150 North Lakeshore Drive,between the hours of 8:00 o.m. and 5:00 p.m.,Monday through Friday,ex- cept legal holidays. The Ocoee Planning and Zoning Commission or Occee City Commis. sion may continue the public hear. Ings to other dates and limes as they deem necessary.Any Interest • - ed party shall be advised that the dales,times,and places of any con- Iinuation of these or continued pub. Ilc hearings shall be announced dur- ing the hearing and that r.o further notices regarding these mailers will be published. Interested parties may appear at the public hearings and be heard • with respect to the application.Any person who desires to appeal any decision made during the public hearing may need a record of the proceeding and for this Purpose may needto ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made which Includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal Is based. Persons with disabilities anypIn ofth roceedingsing assistance tooshou d con. fact the City Clerk's office 48 hours in advance of the meeting at(,07) 905.3105.. JEAN GRAFTON, CITY CLERK, .04S381412ll 2r29A1