What the Pembroke Pines zoning ordinance says about special land uses, district by district. Section numbers link to the official ordinance.
Open space must equal at least 35 percent of the PUD's gross area (with limits on how much of that can be lake or golf-course area). Permitted uses within a PUD are determined by the approved PUD plan, not a citywide use table; confirm the specific PUD's adopted plan and any alias name at LDC 155.451(C).
Maximum project size 10 acres (a smaller project, potentially under 5 acres, is possible with adequate pedestrian and vehicular access to adjacent uses). Setbacks, uses, and design are determined at project review under the approved PD-SL guidelines maintained by Planning and Economic Development; there is no citywide dimensional table for this district.
Minimum project size 25 acres (a smaller project is possible with adequate pedestrian and vehicular access to adjacent uses). Setbacks to adjacent properties must be at least the larger of the existing underlying district or the adjacent district; other setbacks, uses, and design are determined at project review under the approved MXD guidelines maintained by Planning and Economic Development.
Minimum project size 10 acres (a smaller project is possible with adequate pedestrian and vehicular access to adjacent uses). Setbacks to adjacent properties must be at least the larger of the existing underlying district or the adjacent district; other setbacks, uses, and design are determined at project review under the approved PCD guidelines maintained by Planning and Economic Development.
Uses must be consistent with, but may be more restrictive than, the industrial land use plan category. Setbacks, buffer yards, uses, and design are determined at project review under the approved PID guidelines maintained by Planning and Economic Development; there is no citywide dimensional table for this district.
Minimum project size 5 acres. Permitted uses are hospital, medical lab, medical office, nursing home/hospice, and assisted living facility, with a long list of accessory uses (pharmacy, outpatient surgery, offices, restaurant, helipad, hotel/motel, and similar). Setbacks and other standards are determined at project review under the approved HD guidelines; there is no citywide dimensional table for this district.
The permitted use table (LDC Table 155.501) marks each use type P (permitted), P/S (permitted with specific use regulations elsewhere in Article 5), A or A/S (accessory, with or without specific regulations), SE (special exception, requiring the process at LDC 155.301(M)), or blank (not permitted). The table spans all 29 zoning districts in a single wide matrix across roughly 20 use categories; a plain-text extraction (pdftotext -layout) garbles the per-district marks for many rows, but a page-image render of Table 155.501 (pages 141-161 of the source PDF) resolves cleanly. "Home Based Businesses" is confirmed as P/S in every Agriculture/Community/Recreation and Residential district except CF and REC (blank in both), and blank across all Business, Industrial, and Planned districts, with a Specific Use cross-reference to "120.02" (see the home_occupation rule below on that citation). Rows outside the residential/agricultural use-type block sampled in this pass (Retail, Automotive, Educational, Government, and similar categories) were spot-checked across several pages and matched the pack's existing statements; the small remaining minority of the roughly 20 use categories not directly re-rendered here should still be confirmed against LDC Table 155.501 or with Planning and Economic Development before relying on an unlisted marking.
The Live Local Administrative Review Policy (LDC 155.314) implements F.S. 166.04151(7)-(8), the 2023 Florida Live Local Act, through an administrative (non-zoning-change) review process. To qualify, a proposal must be multifamily or mixed-use residential (at least 65 percent residential square footage if mixed-use, or required to be mixed-use if within a transit-oriented development area) on land zoned Commercial, Industrial, or Mixed-Use. At least 40 percent of units must be affordable rental units for 120 percent area median income households in Broward County for the full affordability period, under a recorded land use restriction agreement. Density may not exceed the jurisdiction's highest allowed density (excluding bonuses); intensity is capped at 1.5 times the highest allowed floor area ratio; height is capped based on nearby building heights or a minimum of 3 stories, with a different formula where the site abuts single-family development on two or more sides. Reduced parking is available near transit. Approval under this policy is conceptual only; it does not exempt the project from other applicable review or from all other comprehensive plan and land development standards. Because F.S. 166.04151 is a state statute, an applicant's Live Local rights can extend beyond what LDC 155.314 describes; verify current statute text and confirm application procedure with Planning and Economic Development for any specific proposal.
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