The purpose of establishing an institutional district shall be to encourage the preservation and subsequent logical and timely development of land for institutional purposes in accordance with the objectives, policies and proposals of the Comprehensive Plan; to assure the suitable design of institutions in order to protect the environment of the adjacent and nearby neighborhood; and to ensure that institutional development will take place only when served by adequate public utilities and streets. The protective standards in this article are intended to minimize any adverse effect of institutional developments on nearby property values.
A.
Permitted uses. A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied by any of the following uses and no other.
(1)
Churches, chapels or other places of worship and their adjunct residential dwellings.
(2)
Public and private schools: elementary, middle (junior high) high, colleges and universities.
(3)
Mental, medical and surgical hospitals or clinics and sanatoriums.
(4)
Institutional headquarters for educational, fraternal, professional, religious and other nonprofit organizations or similar nature.
(5)
Agriculture and forestry.
(6)
Noncommercial recreational facilities and open space preservation areas.
(7)
Cemeteries.
(8)
Institutional homes.
(9)
Accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses, including but not limited to:
A | All Uses | |
|---|---|---|
1 | Minimum lot size (net acres) | 2 acres |
2 | Minimum lot width (feet) | 150 |
3 | Minimum front yard (feet) | 100 |
4 | Minimum side yard setback (feet) | 75 |
5 | Minimum rear yard setback (feet) | 75 |
6 | Maximum building height (feet) | 45 |
7 | Maximum impervious surface (percent of net lot area) | 50% |