EMERGENCY GENERATORS INSTEAD OF EQCB

Board of County Commissioners · 2026-07-21 · ordinance

Ordinance amending Miami-Dade County Code sections 24-5, 24-18, and 24-43 to allow administrative approval of emergency generators for healthcare facilities and food stores within wellfield protection areas, subject to conditions, instead of requiring a public hearing before the Environmental Quality Control Board. The ordinance was adopted on first reading on 7/21/2026 and set for a public hearing before the Recreation, Tourism, and Resiliency Committee on 9/9/2026. The scope is countywide. No specific project site, address, parcel, acreage, or dollar amount is stated. The ordinance revises the definition of health care facilities, adds facilities with emergency generators within a wellfield protection area to the list requiring an operating permit, and allows fuels for emergency generators for health care facilities or food stores required to maintain an alternate power source under section 8B-17, subject to conditions including: property served by utility water and sanitary sewers, located more than 30 days travel time from any utility potable water supply well, not within the Northwest Wellfield protection area or West Wellfield Interim protection area, within the Urban Development Boundary, fuels in an approved above-ground storage facility with double-walled tanks and piping, fuel volume limits (1,500 gallons for food stores, volume required by regulations for health care facilities), a groundwater monitoring plan for exposed tanks, and an operating permit. The staff recommendation is approval. The applicant/developer/owner is not stated. The case/file number is 261214. The decision on first reading was adopted, with a public hearing scheduled. Public comment sentiment is not stated. The business opportunity is for contractors and trades to perform work installing emergency generators for healthcare facilities and food stores within wellfield protection areas, as the ordinance streamlines the approval process, potentially reducing costs and permitting timeframes.