Pratt County EMS may be heading to a new building. Pratt County Counselor Bob Schmisseur informed the Pratt County Commissioners that he filed a conditional use permit with the city zoning board for a one-half block parcel of land for future construction of a new emergency medical center that would house EMS, Fire and Rescue, Emergency Management.
Schmisseur presented the information to the commissioners at their July 16 meeting.
The permit now has to go before the Pratt City Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals on Aug. 16 for their approval. If that approval is given, the permit would go before the Pratt City Commission on Sept. 4 for their final approval.
The current EMS building has no place to expand with Pratt Regional Medical Center parking lot on the west, First Street on the north, PRMC land on the east and the big hill on the south, there is no room to grow. More space is needed to accommodate EMS growth as employees are added, Schmisseur said.
If the lot is approved, it would provide enough space for more vehicles, drive-through bays as opposed to back-in bays only, more office space to include emergency management and more space to accommodate men and women’s needs.
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