In the R3 District, there may be any uses permitted in the R2 District and, additionally, the following:
(A) Residential uses.
(1) Boarding houses;
(2) Lodging houses;
(3) Multiple-dwellings;
(4) Rooming houses;
(5) Sleeping rooms;
(6) Tourist homes; and
(7) Special uses. The following special uses are permitted in the R3 District subject to the provisions of § 162.030 of this subchapter: group homes and halfway houses.
(B) Recreational and social facilities. Private clubs, except skeet and gun clubs, fraternities, sororities and lodges, provided that the chief activity of the club shall not be a service customarily carried on as a business, and provided further that the club’s facilities or grounds shall not a leased out for use by others or for purposes not directly and materially related to the club.
(C) Health, medical and other charitable institutions.
(1) Hospital (but not animal hospitals or animal clinics);
(2) Not-for-profit charitable, educational, religious or philanthropic institutions (but not institutions used primarily for penal or mental treatment);
(3) Nursing, convalescent or rest home; and
(4) Domestic violence shelters and homeless, emergency and transitional shelters:
(a) In order to ensure that a shelter does not adversely affect the residential neighborhood through concentration or improper operation, no shelter shall operate in the R3 District unless:
1. It is located upon a lot which is 800 feet from the property line of any other shelter including a group home or a halfway house.
2. Any shelter not in compliance with the above distance separation requirement may seek a special permit under § 162.030.
(b) The above shelter facility may be eligible for a special permit from the City Council after establishing the following:
1. Petitioners shall demonstrate that the proposed location and use will not have any adverse impact upon residents of nearby facilities when located within 800 feet of another facility; and
2. The proposed location will not have any detrimental affect upon the existing privacy, or injurious to the use and enjoyment of other property in the immediate vicinity or the environment of surrounding residences.
(1980 Code, § 29.202) (Ord. 9104, passed 4-2-2007; Ord. 9281, passed 11-9-2015; Ord. 9339, passed 7-16-2018) Penalty, see §
162.999