The Medical Campus District is intended to allow
for the continuation and flexible expansion of a hospital and its
associated uses in a planned and coordinated manner. Flexibility is
essential to allow existing and future uses to respond and adapt to
changes in technology, the medical profession, and society as a whole.
The primary use in the medical campus district is a hospital or hospitals.
Related uses may be located within the hospital building or as independent
uses within the district but should be served by an internal network
of pedestrian and vehicular circulation systems.
The following regulations shall apply in all
MC Districts, and no building, structure or premises, except as otherwise
provided in this chapter, shall be erected, altered, or used except
for one or more of the following uses:
A.
Professional and medical offices, including but not
limited to offices of optometrists, dentists and orthodontists.
B.
Pharmacies, stores which supply corrective garments
or bandages, and similar uses.
C.
Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations,
and similar uses.
D.
Florists.
E.
Personal services establishments including but not
limited to barbershops, beauty shops and health salons.
F.
Fitness centers.
G.
Other uses similar to those listed above.
H.
Accessory structures and uses customarily incident
to any of the above uses.
A.
Hospitals.
(1)
The proposed site shall have at least one property
line abutting a major thoroughfare as designated on the Major Thoroughfare
Plan. All ingress and egress to off-street parking areas, for guests,
employees, staff, as well as any other uses of the facilities, shall
be directly from a major thoroughfare or internal access road.
(2)
The minimum distance of any main or accessory building
from bounding lot lines or major street rights-of-ways shall be at
least 100 feet for front, rear, and side yards for all structures
with two stories or less. For every story above two, the minimum yard
distance shall be increased by a minimum of 10 feet.
B.
Independent and dependent housing for the elderly
subject to the following conditions:
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Density
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Independent
12 units/acre
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Dependent
20 units/acre
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Minimum usable floor area
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1 bedroom
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500 sq. ft.
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350 sq. ft.
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2 bedroom
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600 sq. ft.
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450 sq. ft.
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Maximum building height
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42 ft.
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42 ft.
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Setbacks
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Front
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50 ft.
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50 ft.
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Side
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25 ft.
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25 ft.
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Rear
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25 ft.
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25 ft.
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Yards abutting residential districts
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75 ft.
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75 ft.
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Street yards
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50 ft.
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50 ft.
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Landscaped outdoor garden
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10% of lot or 0.05 acre/unit, whichever is greater
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Off-street parking
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Residents
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1.00 space/unit
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0.50 space/unit
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Guests
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0.25 space/unit
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0.25 space/unit
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C.
Convalescent homes, not to exceed a height of two
stories, when the following conditions are met:
D.
Child day-care centers, provided that, for each child
so cared for, there is provided and maintained a minimum of 150 square
feet of outdoor play area. Such play space shall have a total minimum
area of at least 5,000 square feet, and shall be fenced or screened
from any adjoining residential land with planting.
E.
Places of worship when the following conditions are
met:
A.
A total of 10% of each site within the district shall
be devoted to landscaped outdoor open space. If significant natural
features exist on site, their preservation can be used to fulfill
the requirement of landscaped open space, except that the percent
of the site devoted to landscaped open space cannot be reduced.
B.
Pedestrian connections via sidewalks or paved paths
shall be provided throughout the district. Each site shall include
a portion of the system linking the buildings or uses and open space
areas.
C.
The Planning Commission may waive or modify any requirement of this zoning district and may also require more stringent controls to assure that any proposed use does not negatively impact adjacent areas. Whenever a relaxation of a standard is requested, a public hearing shall be held in accordance with § 480-92, Public hearings.
