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Local Planning Agency
STAFF MEMO
Meeting: Local Planning Agency - Feb 16 2023
Staff Contact: Lance Lilly Department: Community Development
TITLE
ORDINANCE 05-23, AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF
TEQUESTA, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE VILLAGE CODE OF ORDINANCES AT CHAPTER 78.
ZONING. AT SECTION 78-177. C-2 COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. TO INCLUDE
VETERINARY OFFICE AS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION USE IN THAT ZONING DISTRICT; PROVIDING
THAT EACH AND EVERY OTHER SECTION AND SUB -SECTION OF CHAPTER 78. ZONING.
SHALL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED; PROVIDING A
CONFLICTS CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND AUTHORITY TO CODIFY; PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
ORDINANCE 05-23
AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, FLORIDA,
AMENDING THE VILLAGE CODE OF ORDINANCES AT CHAPTER 78. ZONING. AT
SECTION 78-177. C-2 COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. TO INCLUDE VETERINARY
OFFICE AS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION USE IN THAT ZONING DISTRICT; PROVIDING THAT
EACH AND EVERY OTHER SECTION AND SUB -SECTION OF CHAPTER 78. ZONING.
SHALL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED; PROVIDING
A CONFLICTS CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND AUTHORITY TO CODIFY;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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Ord 05-23 C-2 Veterinary Office First Reading
MEMO - veterinary office in C-2
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Agenda Item #3.
First Reading February 9, 2023
ORDINANCE 05-23
AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF
TEQUESTA, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE VILLAGE CODE OF ORDINANCES
AT CHAPTER 78. ZONING. AT SECTION 78-177. C-2 COMMUNITY
COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. TO INCLUDE VETERINARY OFFICE AS A
SPECIAL EXCEPTION USE IN THAT ZONING DISTRICT; PROVIDING THAT
EACH AND EVERY OTHER SECTION AND SUB -SECTION OF CHAPTER 78.
ZONING. SHALL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS PREVIOUSLY
ADOPTED; PROVIDING A CONFLICTS CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
AND AUTHORITY TO CODIFY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, current development trends in the Village have led the Village Council to
believe that the Village's C-2 Zoning District should be revised to allow veterinary offices within
this Zoning District; and
and
WHEREAS, such a use is deemed to be reasonable in the Village's C-2 Zoning District;
WHEREAS, the Village Council desires to adopt such a revision to the Village's Zoning
Code; and
WHEREAS, the Village Council believes the code amendment contained in this
ordinance will be in the best interests of the citizens of the Village of Tequesta.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE
VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: Chapter 78. Zoning. of the Code of Ordinances of the Village of Tequesta
is hereby amended at Article VI. Schedule of District Regulations. Division 2. Schedule of Use
Regulations. by amending Sec. 78-177. C-2 Community Commercial District to add veterinary
office as a special exception use; providing that Sec. 78-177 shall hereafter read as follows:
Sec. 78-177. - C-2 community commercial district.
(a) — (c) [These paragraphs shall remain in full force and effect as previously adopted]
(d) Special exception uses. Special exception uses in the C-2 district are as follows:
(1) — (19) [shall remain same as previously adopted]
(20) Veterinary office.
(e) — (f) [These paragraphs shall remain in full force and effect as previously adopted]
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First Reading February 9, 2023
Section 2: Each and every other section and subsection of Chapter 78. Zoning. shall
remain in full force and effect as previously adopted.
Section 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Section 4: Should any section or provision of this Ordinance or any portion thereof,
any paragraph, sentence or word be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
such decision shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Ordinance.
Section 5: Specific authority is hereby granted to codify this Ordinance.
Section 6: This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon adoption.
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Agenda Item #3.
VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA
To: Mayor Molly Young and Village Council
From: Nilsa Zacarias, AICP, Community Development Director
Date: 1/30/2023
Ref.: Discussion on Veterinary Offices in the C-2 Zoning District — Village Council Workshop
In 2013, the Village adopted Ordinance 15-13, which made veterinary offices a permitted use in the C-3
General Commercial Zoning District and added a definition to the Village Code (see the enclosed Ordinance
15-13). Veterinary offices are only permitted in the C-3 General Commercial District.
Currently, the C-2 Community Commercial District does NOT allow veterinary offices as a permitted or a
special exception use (see enclosed Code). The below map indicates the locations of the C-2 and C-3 Zoning
Districts.
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The C-2 Zoning District allows professional office, which excludes veterinary offices (see below definition).
"Professional office means the office of a person engaged in any occupation, vocation, or calling, not purely
commercial, mechanical, or agricultural, in which a professed knowledge or skill in some department of science
or learning is used by its practical application to the affairs of others, either advising or guiding them in serving
their interest or welfare through the practice of an art founded thereon. This definition does not include
veterinary offices nor does it include health care facility or medical or dental offices."
In addition, please see the following definition for veterinary offices, "Veterinary office means a state licensed
facility for the medical and/or surgical treatment and care of animals. Such facilities may include 24-hour
emergency care, and/or animal boarding associated with medical or surgical treatment; however, any such
boarding must occur inside the facility. General boarding that is not associated with medical or surgical
treatment is prohibited. Veterinary offices may include an outdoor area to the rear of the facility for the
walking of dogs or other animals receiving medical or surgical treatment at the facility."
The existing code for veterinary offices has considerations for animals needing an outdoor area for post -
medical treatments. Please note that the C-2 Zoning District consists of various shopping plazas and if
veterinary offices are permissible in this district, then the plazas will need to provide an outdoor space for this
post -medical treatment.
If the Village Council would like to proceed with a text amendment to include veterinary offices in the C-2
Zoning District, the process will be as follows:
1. Local Planning Agency (LPA) Hearing
2. Village Council First Reading
3. Village Council Second Reading
Enclosed:
1. ORDINANCE 15-13 —Veterinary Offices
2. Village Code Sec. 78-177. - C-2 community commercial district and Village Code Sec. 78-178. - C-3
general commercial district.
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