[Added 11-15-2016 by L.L.
No. 35-2016]
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;
B.
Medical office space;
C.
Extended care facility;
D.
Bus passenger shelter;
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;
H.
Physical therapy;
I.
Pharmaceutical facilities;
J.
Storage facilities for medical equipment, supplies and records;
K.
Food service facilities and cafeterias;
L.
Laundry facilities;
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;
R.
Gift stores;
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.
A.
Minimum lot area: 40,000 feet.
C.
Maximum height: 70 feet. The height limitation shall not apply to
exposed rooftop bulkheads, elevator bulkheads, stair bulkheads, water
towers, fire towers, hose towers, cooling towers, mechanical equipment,
helipad, chimneys, parapet walls/cornices or solar energy systems.
However, any structure(s) described above that exceed(s) 80 feet in
height shall require a special permit from the Town Board. Height
shall be measured from the average elevation of the finished grade
of the building.
D.
Maximum lot coverage: 90%. The lot areas of all properties owned
by the hospital shall be computed into lot coverage calculations.
E.
Maximum impervious surface: 90%. Applicable to main hospital campus
only and not to lots devoted to parking uses.
F.
Maximum floor area ratio: 1.50.
G.
Any hospital use shall be developed only on properties that are connected
or capable of connection to a sewer district.
A.
Parking spaces for properties within the Hospital Zoning Use District
shall be calculated as follows: one parking space per 1.5 beds.
B.
Parking to satisfy the requirements of the Hospital District may
be provided on land that is contiguous with the hospital building
and not owned by the hospital.
C.
Minimum parking aisle width for ninety-degree and seventy-degree
angle: 18.7 feet.
D.
Minimum parking aisle width for sixty-degree angle: 15 feet.
E.
Minimum parking aisle width for forty-five-degree angle: 12 feet.
F.
Each parking space required by this section shall be directly accessible
from an access aisle without having to pass over any other parking
space.
A.
One loading berth per every 150,000 square feet of floor area.
B.
Each required loading berth shall be at least 12 feet long and 14
feet wide and in no event smaller than required to accommodate the
vehicles normally using such berth.
C.
No parking shall be permitted, nor shall any area be counted, in
the parking area within the loading berth area.
D.
Loading berths may be provided in spaces designed to serve jointly
two or more adjacent establishments.
