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SEC. 51A-4.208.   RECREATION USES.
      (1)   Country club with private membership.
         (A)   Definition: A private recreational club containing a golf course and a club house that is available only to the country club membership and their guests.
         (B)   Districts permitted: By right in CH, multifamily, MH(A), and all nonresidential districts except the P(A), and urban corridor districts. By SUP only in A(A), single family, duplex, and townhouse districts. RAR required in CH, multifamily, and MH(A) districts.
         (C)   Required off-street parking: If an SUP is required for this use, the off-street parking requirement may be established by the ordinance granting the SUP, otherwise three spaces for each game court, one space for each additional 150 square feet of floor area, and five spaces for each golf course green.
         (D)   Required off-street loading: None.
         (E)   Additional provisions:
            (i)   This use may contain a private bar, dining room, a swimming pool, and tennis courts and similar services and recreational facilities.
      (2)   Private recreation center, club, or area.
         (A)   Definition: An area providing private recreational facilities such as playgrounds, parks, game courts, swimming pools, and playing fields.
         (B)   Districts permitted: By right in GO(A), CR, RR, CS, industrial, central area, mixed use, multiple commercial, UC-2 and UC-3 districts. By SUP only in all residential districts except MH(A), and in NO(A), LO(A), MO(A), and NS(A) districts.
         (C)   Required off-street parking: If an SUP is required for this use, the off-street parking requirement may be established by the ordinance granting the SUP, otherwise three spaces for each game court and one space for each additional 150 square feet of floor area.
         (D)   Required off-street loading: None.
      (3)   Public park, playground, or golf course.
         (A)   Definition: Land planned, developed, or used for active or passive recreational use by the public that is owned or operated by a public agency for those purposes.
         (B)   Districts permitted: By right in all residential and nonresidential districts except the P(A) district. DIR required in urban corridor districts.
         (C)   Required off-street parking: None.
         (D)   Required off-street loading: None.
         (E)   Additional provisions.
            (i)   Lighting standards for this use for facilities other than parking may:
               (aa)   be built to any height below the residential proximity slope; or
               (bb)   project above the residential proximity slope to a height not to exceed 40 feet. This provision is an exception to the maximum structure height that would otherwise apply in the zoning district.
            (ii)   Lighting standards for this use for parking facilities must not exceed 20 feet in height.
            (iii)   Spillover light on neighboring residential lots must not exceed 0.1 footcandle measured at a point five feet inside the residential lot line and five feet above the ground surface.
            (iv)   The board may grant a special exception to the height restrictions applicable to lighting standards for this use upon making a special finding from the evidence presented that:
               (aa)   strict compliance with those restrictions will unreasonably burden the use of the property; and
               (bb)   the special exception will not adversely affect neighboring property. The board shall not grant a special exception to the spillover light restriction in Subparagraph (iii).
            (v)   The heights of nonconforming lighting standards for this use may be increased by up to 10 percent without board approval, provided that the spillover light restriction in Subparagraph (iii) is complied with. The cumulative additional height authorized by this subparagraph is 10 percent of the height of the lighting standard at the time it became nonconforming. (Ord. Nos. 19455; 19786; 20344; 20384; 20493; 24718; 27183; 28803; 30890)