VENICE – Future buildings to accommodate growth of Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Venice campus could be up to 150 feet tall after the Venice City Council gave preliminary approval to a new zoning district for the 65-acre campus.
Three votes to create the district – for a code change to create a Planned Public Hospital District, a growth plan amendment for the district and a zoning map change – were all 6-1, with Council Member Ron Smith opposed.
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System asked for the change to unify the public hospital’s master planning process and allow new buildings on the Venice campus to be designed like those in downtown Sarasota and on both planned campuses in the city of North Port…