Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Zoning Code, no building or premises in a Multi- Family District shall hereafter be erected, altered, used, arranged or designed to be used, in whole or in part for other than one (1) or more of the following specified uses:
(a) All uses permitted and as regulated in a Two-Family District;
(b) Row houses, apartment houses;
(c) Rooming houses, boarding houses, tourist homes;
(d) The following buildings or uses, if located not less than ten (10) feet from any adjoining premises in a Residence District not used for a similar purpose:
(1) Dormitories;
(2) Reserved;
(3) Lodges or social buildings and their grounds, except those a chief activity of which is one customarily carried on primarily for gain;
(4) Police stations, fire stations;
(5) Other public buildings or properties of a character not customarily conducted as a gainful business.
(e) The following buildings and uses if located not less than fifteen (15) feet from any adjoining premises in a Residence District not used for a similar purpose:
(1) Public libraries, public museums;
(2) Public or private schools or colleges, including accessory laboratories, not conducted as a gainful business;
(3) Kindergartens, day nurseries, children’s boarding homes;
(4) Fraternity houses, sorority houses;
(5) Hospitals, sanitariums, nursing, rest or convalescent homes, not primarily for contagious diseases nor for the care of epileptics or drug or liquor patients, nor for the care of the insane or feeble- minded;
(6) Orphanages;
(7) Homes for the aged and similar homes;
(8) Charitable institutions not for correctional purposes.
(f) Accessory uses permitted in a Multi-Family District.
(g) A residential facility, as defined in Chapter 325 of this Zoning Code, for six (6) to sixteen (16) persons may be permitted as a conditional use. The City Planning Commission shall approve a residential facility as a conditional use in a Multi-Family District only when the residential facility is located not less than one thousand (1,000) feet from another residential facility and only if the City Planning Commission determines that the conditional use meets the following zoning and architectural criteria:
(1) the architectural design and site layout of the home and the location, nature and height of any walls, screens, and fences are compatible with adjoining land uses and the residential character of the neighborhood, as may be specified in applicable Zoning Code regulations for Multi-Family Districts; and
(2) the use complies with all applicable yard, parking and sign regulations in this Zoning Code for Multi-Family Districts.
(Ord. No. 586-16. Passed 7-13-16, eff. 7-17-16)