In an RM Multiple-Family Residential District, the following uses may be permitted subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use, and subject further to approval by the Planning Commission in accordance with the public hearing requirements set forth in Section 1262.07:
(a) General hospitals, the height of which may exceed the maximum height restrictions of the district, provided no such use shall exceed a height of seventy-five feet, whichever is less, and provided, further, that:
(1) Any such use shall be developed only on sites consisting of not less than twenty acres.
(2) The minimum distance of any main or accessory building from any lot line or street shall be at least 100 feet for all two-story structures. For every story above two, to the maximum building height permitted, the minimum yard setback shall be increased by twenty feet.
(b) Housing for the elderly (senior citizen housing), provided it meets the minimum requirements of the RM District, except as otherwise regulated below:
(1) All housing for the elderly shall be provided as a planned housing development and may provide the following:
A. Cottage-type dwellings and/or apartment-type dwelling units; and
B. Common services containing, but not limited to, central dining rooms, recreational rooms, central lounges and workshops.
(2) All dwelling units shall consist of at least 500 square feet per unit.
(3) The maximum percent of lot area covered by all buildings shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the usable area of the site.
(4) The proposed site shall have at least one property line abutting a major thoroughfare, as designated on the City's Comprehensive Development Plan. All access to off-street parking, loading and unloading and other service areas shall be directly from a major thoroughfare.
(5) All housing for the elderly shall be developed in accordance with Act 346 of the Public Acts of 1966, as amended, and with the applicable rules and regulations of the State Housing Authority, except as may otherwise be provided in ordinances of the City. All housing for the elderly must receive the approval of the State Housing Authority before final approval by the Planning Commission is granted. Final approval, conditional upon proof of the approval of the State Housing Authority, may be granted at the discretion of the Commission.
(6) The height of a senior citizen housing building may exceed the maximum height limitations of the RM District, provided no such use shall exceed a building height of seventy-five feet. When such building exceeds the height limitations of the RM District, it shall be set back an additional ten feet for each one foot the building exceeds the height limitations of the RM District.
(c) Convalescent homes and child care centers when the following conditions are met:
(1) There shall be provided on the site the following minimum land area ratio:
A. Convalescent homes, 1,500 square feet of total land area per bed in the home;
B. Child care centers, 1,500 square feet of open space per bed in the home, exclusive of buildings, off-street parking, service drives and loading space.
(2) No building shall be closer than forty feet to any property line.
(d) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the permitted uses set forth in this section.
(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89.)