It is the purpose of the Hospital (H) Zoning Use District to
implement the recommendations of the Town of Riverhead Comprehensive
Plan (2003), improving the ability to address health and human service
needs throughout the community and permitting the continued existence
of a community-based hospital within the Town of Riverhead. The Hospital
(H) Zoning Use District will serve to optimize the hospital's services
and meet the growing needs of the Riverhead community, its infrastructure
improvements and enhance its services to better align the hospital's
services with the Town's growing needs.
The Town Board of the Town of Riverhead shall be the designated
agency to review, approve, amend, modify or disapprove site plans
for all structures and uses in the Hospital (H) Zoning Use District.
In the Hospital (H) Zoning Use District, no building or land
shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more
of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided for herein:
A. Public or private hospital, whether for profit or not for profit.
In the Hospital (H) Zoning Use District, the following uses
are permitted as accessory or ancillary to that of a hospital use:
A. Offices for hospital staff;
E. Public utility structure, right-of-way, sewage treatment plant or
water supply facility;
F. Emergency or supporting power generating equipment;
G. Wireless and satellite antennas;
I. Pharmaceutical facilities;
J. Storage facilities for medical equipment, supplies and records;
K. Food service facilities and cafeterias;
M. Housekeeping and maintenance storage areas;
N. Medical library, research and educational facilities;
O. Diagnostic clinic and clinical laboratories which provide support
to hospital medical functions;
P. Imaging services, including but not limited to magnetic resonance
imaging, cat scan and linear accelerator;
Q. Diagnostic and therapeutic radiation, laser, cryotherapy equipment,
including portable and accessory buildings to house same;
S. Chapels or places of worship;
T. Off-street parking facilities;
U. Helicopter landing site for the reception and transport of emergency
and trauma patients;
V. Garages for parking and storing of emergency and maintenance vehicles
subject to the following conditions:
(1)
Garages must be designed to be architecturally compatible with
the primary hospital building;
(2)
Garages shall have a ten-foot lot line setback from the property
line;
(3)
No parking level shall exceed 50 feet above grade, exclusive
of mechanical installations, stair bulkheads and elevator bulkheads;
(4)
Parking garages and dedicated mechanical equipment space shall
be excluded from all calculations for parking requirements;
(5)
Parking garage shall be provided upon the same premises they
serve, or elsewhere provided that all spaces are on a parcel having
a property line located within 200 feet walking distance of the premises
served.
W. Such other accessory uses customary and ancillary to a hospital facility.