The Health Campus District and its regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To regulate bulk and location of buildings in relation to the land in order to obtain proper light, air, privacy and usable open spaces appropriate for the District;
(b) To provide in appropriate and convenient locations, building districts of sufficient size to serve and promote the health care and health maintenance needs of the community;
(c) To provide a Health Campus District which will serve for the early recognition and treatment of diseases and injury, to prevent severe disability, social isolation and untimely death, and to assist persons in the achievement of the goal of positive health;
(d) To mobilize on one plot of land the necessary buildings to house the services requisite to achieve the above by including a general hospital, a physicians' office building, a long-term care facility, a rehabilitation center, out-patient care and related health agencies in an open space setting;
(e) To provide a Health Campus District in close proximity to the freeway system so as to be accessible to widely disbursed medical, technical and health personnel in the region;
(f) To provide a Health Campus District for the people of the City which is adjacent to and accessible to residents and in which such uses are compatible with adjoining residential districts;
(g) To protect and stabilize developments from traffic congestion by regulating the intensity of use, by requiring off-street parking, loading and on-site circulation facilities and by regulating the access to streets;
(h) To protect nearby residential neighborhoods by restricting the types of nearby uses, particularly at their common boundaries, that would create objectionable influences; and
(i) To promote the most desirable and beneficial hospital campus use of the land based upon the Guide Plan and directed to bring about eventual conformity with the Plan as it may be amended.
(Ord. 1978-73. Passed 10-5-78.)