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.
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.
[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]
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.