In order to promote a greater choice of noninstitutional housing, to provide opportunities for potential facility residents, to avoid over-concentration of Residential Social Service Facilities, and to establish the suitability of the requested use at the proposed location, all Residential Social Service Facilities shall be subject to the following regulations:
(a) Such a facility shall be architecturally compatible with other residential dwellings in the immediate neighborhood and shall maintain the same degree of compatibility in the future. An improvement required by Building Codes for access to or exit from the building shall not be deemed incompatible merely because surrounding buildings lack such facilities.
(b) Such a facility shall require no special off-street parking facilities.
(c) Such a facility shall generate no traffic unreasonably greater in volume or different in nature than would otherwise normally occur in the neighborhood in which it is located.
(d) Such a facility shall be occupied by no more than sixteen residents, exclusive of staff, limited by the size of the existing or proposed building and its allocation of space for sleeping quarters.
(e) Such a facility shall utilize for resident sleeping no more than thirty-five percent (35%) of the minimum net floor area for sleeping quarters.
(f) No identification sign other than required house numbers shall be erected on such a facility.
(g) Such a facility shall be located no closer to another Residential Social Service Facility; to any institution similar in nature but occupied by more than sixteen residents; or to a nursing home, rest home, or home for the aging; than 2,500 feet measured on a straight line radius from the building so used to the building proposed to be used.
(h) Such a facility shall be located in an eligible census tract. A census tract shall be eligible for such location if it contains less than two Residential Social Service Facilities, or if the proportion of the number of Residential Social Service Facilities to the number of households in that census tract is less than the City-wide proportion of the total number of Residential Social Services Facilities to the total number of households. The number of households shall be as most recently reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.
(i) Such a facility, prior to occupancy and continuously thereafter, shall:
(1) Be licensed or certified by a Federal, State or local agency which requires screening potential applicants.
(2) Be licensed as a rooming house in accordance with Section 1357.02 et seq.
(3) Comply with all applicable City Code requirements.
(Ord. 163-1984. Passed 12-17-84.)