VENICE – The Venice City Council gave preliminary approval to an annexation agreement for a five-acre parcel off of Curry Lane and two land use-related ordinances that eventually would allow a 42-bed rehabilitation hospital just south of the new Sarasota Memorial Hospital campus in Venice.
The approvals on the annexation agreement, a future land-use map change, and an ordinance that designated the land for office, professional and institutional, all passed unanimously. Jeff Boone, the attorney for the applicant, Catalyst Healthcare Real Estate, added a stipulation on the land-use designation that there would be no open burning on the property of land-clearing debris.