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Community Facility Margate, Florida

Community facility district for educational, cultural, religious, health care, recreational and governmental facilities needed by the community. Any use not specifically listed as permitted is prohibited.

3 buildings zoned CF7 permitted business types

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Permitted uses

What you can operate in CF, Margate

The businesses the CF district in Margate allows. The ones on the left are permitted by right; the ones on the right need a special approval first. (Zoning codes are set by each municipality, so CF here means specifically Margate's CF district.)

Allowed by right

Place of Assembly (subject to Sec. 40.619)Hospitals, detoxification facilities, pain management clinics and long-term care facilities, not including correctional or mental institutions or veterinary hospitals (lot >= 40,000 sf, >= 200 ft street frontage, only on arterial roadways)Municipal buildings, fire stations, libraries, public offices, parks, playgrounds, reservations, parkingMedical office (not including correctional or mental institutions or institutions for care of drug or liquor patients; may have an MRI unit as accessory)

With special approval

Public or private elementary, middle or high school (Sec. 40.620)Public or private postsecondary educational facilities, including vocational schools (associated residence ancillary, full-time students and necessary staff only)Pain management clinics on roadways classified arterial or collector by the Broward County Trafficways Plan (Sec. 40.616)

Build envelope

Development standards

Headline dimensional limits for this district. Confirm exact figures against the current code for your specific parcel.

StandardMax height 4 stories or 50 ft (steeple/tower on a Place of Assembly up to 65 ft; hospitals >200 beds on >= 20-acre campus up to 122 ft)

StandardMax lot coverage 30% for 1-3 stories, 25% for 4 stories (35% for hospitals >200 beds on >= 20-acre campus)

Setbacksfront 35 ft; side 25 ft; rear 25 ft; street side 25 ft (side/rear +5 ft per story above 2nd)

StandardNo building within 40 ft of residentially zoned property; parking not within 20 ft of residentially zoned property

StandardExceptions in height/coverage/setbacks for property owned or operated by the City of Margate or Margate CRA

Accessory usesAccessory structure or use clearly incidental or subordinate to the principal use on the same lot

StandardRead from Margate Code Ch. 40 Sec. 40.540 (CF) (C) permitted, (D) special exception, (E)-(H) standards, (I) prohibited; permitted = by right, conditional = needs conditional-use / special-exception approval

The fine print

In plain English

BY RIGHT No hearing needed

If your business is on the by-right list, you can occupy a space in this district and open — no zoning hearing. Building permits and licensing still apply, but the use itself is already allowed.

SPECIAL Approval first

Special-approval uses can work here too, but they go through a public review before opening. Plan for extra time and possible conditions — we'll tell you which path a space needs.

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