(A) Site location principles. The following principles shall be utilized to evaluate the proposed location of any institutional use in any zoning district where the use is permitted by right or by special use. These principles are alterable, depending upon the specific conditions of each situation, but they shall be applied by the Planning Commission as general guidelines to help assess the impact of an institutional use upon the district in which the use is proposed to be located.
(1) Any institutional structure or use in a residential district should, preferably, be located at the edge of the district, abutting either a business or industrial district or adjacent to a public open space.
(2) Motor vehicle entrance should be made on a major thoroughfare or as immediately accessible from a major thoroughfare as to avoid the impact of traffic generated by the institutional use upon a residential area.
(3) Site locations should be preferred that offer natural or manmade barriers that would lessen the effect of the intrusion of the institutional use into a residential area.
(B) Site development requirements. The following standards shall apply to the uses listed below:
(1) Hospitals.
(a) The proposed site shall be at least ten acres in area.
(b) The proposed site shall have at least one property line abutting a major thoroughfare. All ingress and egress to the off-street parking area (for guests, employees, and staff) shall be directly from the major thoroughfare.
(c) No more than 25% of the gross site shall be covered by buildings.
(d) Ambulance and delivery areas shall be obscured from all residential view by a solid masonry wall six feet in height. Access to and from the delivery and ambulance area shall be directly from a major thoroughfare.
(e) All signs shall be in accordance with the schedule outlined in § 153.083.
(2) Churches.
(a) The proposed site shall be at least one acre in size plus one-half acre per 100 seats in the main auditorium.
(b) The proposed site shall be so located as to have at least one property line on a major or secondary thoroughfare. All ingress and egress to the site shall be directly onto the thoroughfares or a marginal access service drive thereof.
(c) All signs shall be in accordance with the schedule outlined in § 153.083.
(d) Off-street parking space shall be provided in accordance with the schedule outlined in § 153.100.
(Ord. 146, passed 3-2-1998; Ord. 230, passed 12-9-2014; Ord., passed 8-10-2021) Penalty, see § 153.999