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PREFACE
Chapter C HOME RULE CHARTER
Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 5 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Chapter 14 AUTHORITIES
Chapter 23 BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS
Chapter 36 FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES
Chapter 51 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
Chapter 62 PENSIONS
Chapter 70 PERSONNEL
Chapter 77 POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chapter 91 SALARIES AND COMPENSATION
Chapter 120 ALARM SYSTEMS
Chapter 127 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Chapter 141 ANIMALS
Chapter 166 CABLE TELEVISION
Chapter 173 COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY CODE
Chapter 180 CONSTRUCTION CODES
Chapter 185 CONVERSION THERAPY
Chapter 188 CURFEW
Chapter 201 ELECTRIC SERVICE
Chapter 212 FEES
Chapter 219 FIREARMS
Chapter 225 FIREWORKS
Chapter 231 FIRE INSURANCE PROCEEDS
Chapter 237 FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
Chapter 251 FOOD CODE
Chapter 272 GRAFFITI
Chapter 288 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 295 HISTORICAL AND CONSERVATION DISTRICTS
Chapter 302 HOUSE NUMBERING
Chapter 308 HOUSING
Chapter 317 INVASIVE PLANTS AND NOXIOUS WEEDS
Chapter 325 LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chapter 328 LEAD POISONING PREVENTION
Chapter 332 LIBRARY
Chapter 339 LICENSES AND PERMITS
Chapter 346 LITTER AND ADVERTISING MATERIAL
Chapter 353 LOITERING AND PANHANDLING
Chapter 364 MASSAGE THERAPISTS
Chapter 378 MUNICIPAL CLAIMS AND LIENS
Chapter 387 NOISE
Chapter 396 PARKS AND RECREATION
Chapter 403 PAWNBROKERS
Chapter 410 PEDDLING AND SOLICITING
Chapter 424 POLES
Chapter 431 PROPERTY SALES
Chapter 433 PUBLIC ART
Chapter 438 RAIN BARRELS
Chapter 442 RECORDS, PUBLIC ACCESS
Chapter 453 SALES
Chapter 460 SCRAP METAL DEALERS
Chapter 467 SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Chapter 473 SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES
Chapter 479 SIDEWALK CAFES
Chapter 485 SIGNS
Chapter 496 SOLID WASTE
Chapter 502 STORAGE FACILITIES
Chapter 505 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 508 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter 515 SUBDIVISION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 521 SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 536 TAMPERING WITH PUBLIC PROPERTY
Chapter 540 TATTOO AND PIERCING ESTABLISHMENTS
Chapter 543 TAX ABATEMENTS
Chapter 546 TAX AMNESTY PROGRAM
Chapter 549 TAXATION
Chapter 555 TREES
Chapter 564 VEHICLE NUISANCES, STORAGE OF
Chapter 570 VEHICLE REPAIR SHOPS
Chapter 576 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 583 VENDING MACHINES
Chapter 600 ZONING
Chapter A610 ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY
Chapter A611 BOND ISSUES AND LOANS
Chapter A612 FRANCHISE AND SERVICES
Chapter A613 GOVERNMENTAL AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Chapter A614 PLAN APPROVAL
Chapter A615 PUBLIC PROPERTY
Chapter A616 SEWERS
Chapter A617 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter A618 WATER
Chapter A619 ZONING; PRIOR ORDINANCES
Chapter DT DERIVATION TABLE
Chapter DL DISPOSITION LIST
§ 600-817. INS Institutional Overlay Zone.
   A.   Applicability. The INS District overlays the underlying zoning district(s) as shown on the INS Zoning Maps. Within the INS Overlay Zone, an applicant shall have the option of making an application under the regulations of the INS District or the underlying zoning district regulations in Part 8. All other provisions of this chapter shall apply.
   B.   Dimensional requirements.
 
Uses
Minimum Lot Size (square feet)
Maximum Building Coverage
Maximum Impervious Coverage
Maximum Height
Minimum Lot Width
Minimum Front Yard Setback
Minimum Rear Yard Setback
Minimum Side Yard Setback (each)
College or university or hospital nonresidential uses
3,000
40%1
70%1
402
30
153
253
154
College, university or hospital residential uses5
3,000
40%1
70%1
402
30
153
253
154
Other allowed use, unless otherwise stated
10,000
40%
50%
40
50
15
25
15
 
NOTES:
1   For abutting lots in common ownership, the maximum building and impervious coverage may apply to all such lots combined.
2   Except a maximum height of 60 feet shall be allowed for portions of a building that are a minimum of 100 feet from the lot line of every dwelling that is not owned by the college or university.
3   Where a college or university building would be across a street or an alley or directly abutting an existing principal dwelling that is not owned by the college or university, a minimum forty-foot wide yard shall be required. Where such situation exists along a street or alley, the forty-foot yard shall be measured from the right-of-way.
4   A side yard setback is not required where a new building is replacing a building that was previously attached to another building along that lot line. New dwelling units that are allowed to be attached to each other do not need a side yard setback between the new dwellings.
5   Not including preexisting dwelling units which are owned by a college or university and which are regulated as individual dwelling units under the regulations of the underlying district and which shall meet the definition of occupancy by one family.
Note: The term “college or university” shall be interpreted to include similar accredited institutions of higher education, such as nursing schools, and other professional health-care educational facilities.
   C.   Allowed uses.
      (1)   Permitted-by-right uses:
         (a)   Cemeteries, not including a crematorium.
         (b)   College or university offices, education, dining, recreational, athletic, and maintenance uses and their customarily accessory uses.
         (c)   Museums.
         (d)   Nursing home or personal-care center.
         (e)   Offices or clinics of a hospital or similar health care organization.
         (f)   Police, fire and ambulance stations and related training facilities.
         (g)   Residential facilities owned and/or operated by a college, university or hospital for their staff and/or enrolled students, which may include dormitories, sororities, fraternities, dwelling units and other residence halls. Sororities, fraternities, dormitories and boarding houses that are not owned and/or operated by a college, university or nursing school shall be prohibited.
      (2)   Conditional uses. In compliance with § 600-1203.
         (a)   Temporary shelter.