The City Commission may, by special permit, after public hearing and subject to the protective restrictions that are deemed necessary, authorize the location, extension or structural alteration of any of the following buildings or uses, or an increase in their height, in any district from which they are prohibited or limited by this chapter:
(A) Any public building erected and used by a department of a municipal, county, state or federal government;
(B) Hospitals, clinics and institutions, except institutions for criminals or those for persons who are mentally ill or have contagious diseases; provided, however, that the buildings may occupy not over 50% of the total area of the lot or tract and will not have any serious or depreciating effect upon the value of the surrounding property, and provided further, that the buildings shall be set back from all yard lines heretofore established an additional distance of not less than one foot for every foot of building height, and that adequate off-street parking space will be provided;
(C) Cemetery or mausoleum;
(D) Landing field or landing strip for aircraft;
(E) Greenhouses and nurseries;
(F) Farms;
(G) Roadside stands, commercial amusement or recreational development for temporary or seasonal periods;
(H) Removal of gravel, topsoil or similar materials;
(I) Riding stables;
(J) Parking lots on land not more than 300 feet from the boundary of any commercial or industrial district, under conditions as will protect the character of surrounding property;
(K) Areas for the dumping or disposal of trash;
(L) Radio towers and radio broadcasting stations;
(M) Chimneys, cooling towers, elevators, fire towers, monuments, stacks, stage towers, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers, spires and church steeples; and
(N) Any use that is not a nuisance per se and which is generally similar to the uses permitted in the district in which the use is located by special permit.
(Ord. 605, passed 1-25-2000)