(A) Evidence is presented that the facility meets the licensing, certification or approval requirements of the appropriate state agency as specified in § 157.295(B).
(B) Such facilities shall comply with the district regulations applicable to other properties in the zoning district in which they are located.
(C) Applicants must show that the proposed facility will require no special off-street parking facilities, and will generate no traffic unreasonably greater in volume or different in nature than what otherwise normally occur in the neighborhood in which it is located.
(D) The exterior of all such facilities shall be compatible with other residential dwellings in the immediate neighborhood and shall maintain the same degree of compatibility. An improvement required by Code or applicable licensing requirement shall not be deemed incompatible because surrounding buildings lack such facilities.
(E) No signs shall be erected by such facility for purposes of identification of that facility except street address identification.
(F) Such facilities in single-family residential structures shall utilize no more than 35% of the net floor area of the living quarters for sleeping area. Such facilities in multi-family residential structures shall utilize no more than 45% of the net floor area of the living quarters for a sleeping area. The sleeping area in single-family and multi-family residential structures shall exclude halls, corridors, stairways, closets, bathrooms, and all other areas not used for sleeping. The net floor area of the living quarters includes the entire gross floor area of the principle structure on the lot, except for halls, corridors, stairways, closets, and all other areas used primarily for heating, plumbing, or air conditioning equipment, and storage of property, (including vehicles).
(G) The operator or agency applying for a conditional use permit to operate such a facility shall provide the Board of Zoning Appeals with a plan which documents the need for the home in relation to the specific clientele served, describes the program objectives and nature of facility, identities the location and type of other community-based residential social service facilities operated by such operator or agency, and lists the standards of the State of Ohio and the desired facility.
(H) The operator of the facility shall file a plan showing how the facility will maintain a planned, continuing contact with the adjacent residents and the neighborhood which shall include a structured procedure whereby grievances may be filed and methods whereby such grievances shall be resolved.
(I) Such facilities shall be reasonably accessible, by reason of location or transportation provided by the applicant, to necessary medical, psychiatric, recreational, or other services required by the residents.
(J) There shall be no more than a total of two from Category B, C, or D community based residential social service facilities located within any single census tract.
(K) No Category B, C, or D community based residential social service facility shall be located within 1320 feet of any other Category B, C, or D facility. Distances shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the parcel or real estate upon which such facility is proposed to be located to the nearest property line of the premises on which such a facility is currently located.
(Ord. 6-1993, passed 3-8-93)