A Senior Citizen Housing District and regulations therefor is established in order to achieve among others, the following purposes:
(a) To provide appropriate sites for the development of dwelling facilities for elderly persons in locations convenient to and within safe walking distance to the community's social and recreational facilities, convenient to shops and public transportation; and
(b) To provide in such development dining, recreational and social facilities for the comfort and convenience of the occupants; and
(c) To regulate the density of population within such districts, so as to provide ample outdoor livable space, to retain a sense of personal identity, intimacy and human scale within the development; and
(d) To regulate the bulk, height and spacing of buildings within the development in order to obtain proper light, air, privacy and open space for passive recreation and landscaped amenities; and
(e) To enable elderly persons to obtain suitable, safe, sanitary and decent housing designed to meet their special needs; and
(f) To protect adjacent residential properties by requiring adequate yards and screening and to protect and insulate the development from surrounding incompatible uses.
(Ord. 81-19. Passed 5-4-81.)