In accordance with the recommendations and policies in the Master Plan, this district is intended to recognize and permit the unified and orderly development of major cultural, educational and medical institutions in order to support and enhance their benefit to the community. This district allows flexibility in planning and development by evaluating and accommodating incremental growth and change, thereby assuring compatibility with adjacent, noninstitutional districts. This district provides for Town administrative control over institutions while providing these institutions with a mechanism for adjusting to their changing development.
The following uses are permitted within the Planned Institutional Development District:
A. 
Universities and colleges.
B. 
Medical and health-care facilities, such as skilled nursing facilities, acute-care facilities, health-related care facilities and other elderly-care complexes.
C. 
Support uses which are owned, operated or leased by or otherwise controlled by the primary institution. The burden of proof is on the primary institution to show the support use is consistent with the mission of the primary institution.
See Chapter 205, Bulk and Parking Regulations, Article I.
Within this district, there shall be a uniform signage plan which identifies the type of signs, location, style, colors and materials to be used throughout the district. Such a signage plan shall be included with the original submission for district designation. All signs shall be in conformance with the signage plan.
[Added 7-23-1997 by L.L. No. 5-1997]
See the communication facilities regulations in Chapter 207, Articles VIII and I, § 207-3D, of these regulations.
Within this district, there shall be a landscaping plan for the entire district. Such a landscaping plan will be guided by the screening requirements as listed in the Table of Uses in the Appendix to these regulations. All landscaping shall be in conformance with the landscaping plan.
A. 
In addition to the provisions of Chapter 205, Articles I and II, of these regulations, dealing with parking and loading regulations, the following regulations shall apply to this district:
(1) 
For universities and colleges, sufficient parking shall be provided to accommodate the usual needs of the faculty, staff and student body, without requiring such persons to park anywhere outside of the district. Sufficient loading facilities shall be provided to accommodate the normal activities of uses within the district without impeding traffic flows on any street.
(2) 
For medical and health-care facilities, sufficient parking and loading facilities shall be provided to accommodate the normal activities and uses within the district.
B. 
Location of parking and loading. Parking and loading shall be located anywhere within the district, except within the buffer area surrounding the boundary of the district. This buffer area shall be a minimum of 50 feet wide and suitably landscaped according to the Table of Uses in the Appendix to these regulations and to Chapter 207, Article V, Landscaping Regulations.
Any institution meeting the permitted uses for this IPD may initiate an application for the establishment of an IPD. Where any property is currently under active use for an institutional use, or is surrounded by or immediately contiguous to such property and owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the same institution, the institution using or controlling such property may initiate an application to classify such property in the IPD District. Applications filed pursuant to this section shall include all such property currently used or planned for use by such institution. In lieu of the plans and procedures therein required, a current plan may be filed and processed as hereinafter provided.
A. 
Purpose. The current plan is filed in lieu of a development concept plan, a detailed plan and a final plan by an existing institution. The current plan is to serve as a complete, thorough and permanent public record of the extent, character and nature of the existing development within the district as well as of plans for future development.
B. 
Application. Applications for approval of a current plan shall be submitted in the appropriate number of copies to the Building and Planning Department. A nonrefundable application fee as established from time to time by the Town Board to help defray administrative cost and the costs of a hearing, shall accompany each application. The application shall be in such form and shall contain such information and documentation as shall be prescribed from time to time by the Building and Planning Department but shall in all instances contain at least the following information and documentation, which information and documentation, taken together, shall constitute a current plan:
(1) 
The institution's name and address and its interest in the subject property.
(2) 
The legal description of the subject property.
(3) 
A written statement setting forth the current activities of the institution, its goals and objectives and its plans for future growth and development.
(4) 
A written statement setting forth the applicant's proposals, if any, with respect to the specific items to be included in the Planning Board's recommendations pursuant to Subsection D of this section and justifying such proposals in terms of the capability of the area to accommodate growth at the proposed intensity.
(5) 
A site plan, suitable for recording, drawn to a scale not less than 100 feet to the inch, depicting all existing and currently proposed development of the subject property and including the following:
(a) 
The location and use of all existing and currently proposed buildings and structures.
(b) 
Required and existing setback lines district boundaries and all streets.
(c) 
The location of existing and currently proposed streets, parking lots, loading berths, rights-of-way, easements, water and sewer lines, surface and subsurface drainage facilities and property lines.
(d) 
All open space and other amenities intended to be maintained in perpetuity.
(e) 
All existing development located within 500 feet of any boundary of the proposed IPD District.
(f) 
The following information for the entire area of the district currently developed or shown as currently planned for development and for each subarea of the district, defined as an area completely surrounded by streets:
[1] 
Rights-of-way in excess of 30 feet.
[2] 
District boundary lines.
[3] 
Rivers, streams, lakes or similar natural dividing lines, currently developed or shown as planned for development.
[4] 
Mean floor area ratio of existing and planned principal buildings.
[5] 
Mean percentage of lot coverage of existing and planned principal buildings.
[6] 
Total number of parking spaces.
[7] 
All points of vehicular access.
C. 
Optional informational meeting. An informational meeting may be set, advertised and conducted by the Planning Board.
D. 
Action by Planning Board.
(1) 
Within 45 days following the conclusion of the informational meeting or such longer period of time as may be agreed to by the applicant, the Planning Board shall, with such aid and advice of the various departments of the Town as may be appropriate, transmit its recommendations to the Town Board in the form specified, concerning whether or not the subject property should be classified as an IPD District, and if the recommendation is affirmative, the recommendations shall include:
(a) 
Bulk, space and yard requirements, use limitations and other conditions to be met by currently proposed development and whether such currently proposed development should be subject to further site plan review pursuant to § 203-144 of this article as currently proposed development or should be permitted subject only to review as provided in § 203-147 of this article as incremental development.
(b) 
The maximum floor area ratio, whether for the entire district or subareas thereof, at which incremental development should be allowed without amendment of the current plan.
(c) 
Bulk, space and yard requirements, use limitations and other conditions to be met by any incremental development proposed without an amendment of the current plan.
(d) 
The minimum area to be required for any expansion of the IPD District boundary lines.
(2) 
The failure of the Planning Board to act within 45 days following the conclusion of the optional informational meeting or such longer period as may be agreed to by the applicant shall be deemed a recommendation that the IPD District be established as proposed, including currently planned development without further limitation, and that incremental development be permitted at a floor area ratio not greater than the current mean floor area ratio of existing and proposed principal buildings as shown on the current plan but without further limitation.
E. 
Action by Town Board. Within 30 days following the receipt of the report of the Planning Board or its failure to act as above provided, the Town Board shall conduct a public hearing and either refuse to establish the IPD District or shall refer the current plan back to the Planning Board for further consideration of specified matters or, by ordinance duly adopted, shall establish specific standards and requirements for currently planned development and for incremental development without current plan amendment and for expansion of the district boundaries and shall amend the Zoning Map of the Town to designate the area included in the IPD District as "Planned Development District - (institution name)"; provided, however, that if prior to the adoption of such amendment a protest against such amendment is presented, duly signed and acknowledged, by the owners of 20% or more of the area to be affected by the proposed amendment, or by the owners of 20% or more of the area of the land immediately adjacent thereto, or immediately across a street therefrom, extending 100 feet therefrom, such an amendment shall not be adopted except by a three-fourths vote of the Town Board. In the event that the Town Board shall fail to act within the time limit herein specified, the application shall be deemed to be finally denied.
F. 
Notice and recording of current plan. Within seven days following the final disposition of an application for current plan approval, the Senior Planner or such other individual as shall be designated by the Commissioner of Public Works shall mail notice thereof to all parties entitled thereto. When the current plan is approved, the Senior Planner or such other individual as shall be designated by the Commissioner of Public Works shall, within 10 days of such approval, file a copy of the entire current plan in the permanent records of the Building and Planning Department and cause the current plan, or such portions thereof as are appropriate, to be recorded with the Monroe County Clerk. All fees in connection with such recording shall be paid, in advance, by the applicant.
[Amended 4-27-2022 by L.L. No. 5-2022]
A. 
"Currently existing development" within an IPD District shall be defined as current development depicted in sufficient detail on an approved current plan to warrant, in the opinion of the Planning Board and Town Board, authorizing construction subject only to issuance of a certificate of compliance and other approvals and permits customarily required for the development or establishment of any permitted use.
B. 
When any proposed development is designated on an approved current plan as currently proposed development, it may be undertaken subject only to the issuance of a certificate of compliance evidencing substantial conformity, as herein defined, of the development with the current plan and the issuance of other permits and approvals customarily required for the development or establishment of any permitted use.
C. 
For purposes of this subsection, proposed development shall be deemed to be not in substantial conformity with the current plan if it:
(1) 
Departs by more than 5% from the maximum density or ground cover approved in the current plan.
(2) 
Changes by more than 5% the floor area to be devoted to any use.
(3) 
Decreases by more than 5% the area approved for public and private open space or changes the general location of such areas.
(4) 
Relocates approved circulation elements to any extent that would decrease their function or capacity, adversely affect their relation to surrounding lands and circulation elements or reduce their effectiveness as buffers or amenities.
(5) 
Significantly alters the arrangement of land uses.
(6) 
Violates any provision of the codes and ordinances applicable to the proposed planned development.
(7) 
Departs from the approved current plan in any other manner which the Building Inspector shall, based on stated findings and conclusions, find to materially alter the concept of the plan as approved.
D. 
Any such proposed development found not to be in substantial conformity with the approved current plan shall be treated as incremental development subject to the provisions of § 203-143 below.
A. 
"Incremental development" within an IPD District shall be defined as development occurring wholly within the boundaries of such development which, while not shown on an approved current plan, complies with all of the use requirements; space, bulk and yard requirements; and parking and loading requirements within this IPD District.
B. 
Except as hereinafter provided with respect to certain support uses, incremental development in any IPD District may be undertaken without amendment of the current plan, subject only to site plan approval in accordance with this chapter, as hereinafter modified, and issuance of permits and approvals customarily required for the development or establishment of any permitted use.
C. 
Incremental development of uses specified in Subsection A of this section may be undertaken without amendment of the current plan, but only upon issuance of a conditional use permit use in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 217, Article II, of these regulations.
D. 
The preapplication conference shall be mandatory in the case of any proposal for incremental development in an IPD District. The Building Inspector shall give notice of such conference to any group or individual believed by the Building Inspector to have a special interest in the proposal.
E. 
In addition to materials required to be submitted with an application for site plan approval or for a conditional use permit, applications pertaining to incremental development in an IPD District shall include an analysis of the traffic impact of the proposed development. Such analysis shall include projections of required parking and site-generated and off-site traffic to be expected on streets in the vicinity upon completion of the proposed development. Such analysis shall make recommendations for techniques or improvements to deal with any projected traffic congestion or friction. The traffic analysis shall be submitted to the County Traffic Engineer for review and recommendation. Upon completion of any incremental development, a revised current plan including such development shall be filed and recorded as provided in § 203-140F hereof.
All proposed development other than incremental development not identified on the current plan, after the IPD designation has been granted, shall be subject to the requirements of site plan approval by the Planning Board pursuant to Chapter 217, Article III, of these regulations. The procedure for site plan review shall include a sketch plan review.
Any changes in the permitted uses shall be approved by the Town Board. Prior to any site plan approval for any new proposed development within the IPD, the current plan shall be changed to reflect the new development and its impacts on the current plan.