EMERGENCY GENERATORS INSTEAD OF EQCB

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

Miami-Dade County legislative item File Number 261214 is an ordinance amending Sections 24-5, 24-18, and 24-43 of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, to authorize administrative approval of emergency generators for healthcare facilities and food stores within wellfield protection areas, subject to conditions. The ordinance was adopted on first reading by the Board of County Commissioners 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. The ordinance revises the definition of health care facilities, adds facilities with emergency generators within a wellfield protection area to the list of facilities requiring an operating permit, and allows fuels for emergency generators for health care facilities or food stores required to maintain an alternate source of power pursuant to section 8B-17, provided conditions are met including the property being 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 contained in an approved above-ground storage facility with double-walled tanks and piping, fuel volume limits (1,500 gallons for food stores), a groundwater monitoring plan for exposed tanks, and an operating permit. The staff recommendation is approval. The applicant/developer/owner is not stated. The exact street address, parcel/folio, acreage, and number of units are not stated. Public comment sentiment is not stated.