A. Defined
Hospital means an institution providing health services primarily for the sick or injured and offering inpatient medical or surgical care. Hospital includes accessory facilities, such as laboratories, medical/dental clinics, helistops, training facilities, classrooms, central service facilities, and staff offices integral to the Hospital. Hospital does not include a stand-alone hospice (see Section 3.3.2.E, Residential Care Facility).
B. Use Standards
1. Where a Hospital is allowed as a limited use, it must abut property zoned Commercial/Residential, Employment, or Industrial.
2. Where a Hospital is allowed as a conditional use, it may be permitted by the Hearing Examiner under Section 7.3.1, Conditional Use, and the following standards:
a. The Hearing Examiner finds that the Hospital will not create a nuisance because of traffic, noise, or the number of patients or persons cared for; that it will not affect adversely the present character or future development of the surrounding residential community.
b. The minimum lot area is 5 acres.
c. The minimum lot width at the front lot line is 200 feet. This requirement does not apply in the GR and EOF zones.
d. Where the subject lot abuts land that is zoned Residential Detached or is used solely for detached houses, no portion of a building must be nearer to the lot line than a distance equal to the height of that portion of the building, and a minimum of 50 feet from a lot line when the subject lot abuts all other zones and nonresidential uses.
e. Off-street parking must be located to achieve a maximum of coordination between the proposed development and the surrounding uses and a maximum of safety, convenience, and amenity for the residents of neighboring areas.
f. Parking must be limited to a minimum between the front lot line and the front building line.
g. The maximum height of a Hospital building is 145 feet in spite of any other limitation in this Chapter.
h. In the Industrial zones, the maximum FAR of a Hospital building is established by the conditional use approval in spite of any other limitation in this Chapter.