A. Purpose: This section provides general standards applicable to institutional uses to preserve neighborhood character, provide compatibility with adjoining properties, and to ensure that existing traffic improvements for the site are at appropriate levels and that traffic improvements are required in accordance with the circulation element of the general plan.
B. Applicability: The provisions in this section shall apply to recreation, education and public assembly (institutional uses) as listed in the permitted uses table (section 9.07.040, table 2-3 of this article 2). This includes arboretums, campgrounds, religious institutions and other places of public assembly, conference centers, hospitals and convalescent homes, museums, and schools, which shall be subject to the standards of this section.
C. Locational, Developmental, And Operational Standards: In addition to the standards specified for the specific zoning district in which a use is located the following shall also apply to institutional uses. In the event of a conflict between provisions, the following provisions shall apply:
1. The site shall be located on or adjacent to a paved street.
2. The site shall be located on an eighty foot (80') wide collector or greater as shown on the circulation element of the general plan.
3. Building setback of fifty feet (50') from all property lines is required when developing in or adjacent to a single-family residential land use district; otherwise the underlying building setback of the land use district shall apply.
4. Minimum parcel size shall be 2.5 acres in single-family residential land use districts.
5. Midblock locations within single-family residential land use districts shall be discouraged.
6. The height of any structure shall be compatible with that of the surrounding development.
7. The architectural design of facilities shall be designed in such a manner that the facility is compatible with and in scale with the surrounding development. For development within a commercial land use district the project shall be consistent with the adopted commercial design guidelines.
8. Parking area for facilities in residential land use districts that accommodate a large number of vehicles shall be divided into a series of smaller parking areas by landscaping and by offsetting portions of lots in ways that effectively reduce the visual impacts of large parking areas.
9. Access drives and parking aisles shall be kept at the maximum distance possible from any adjacent residential units. (Ord. 253, 12-16-2014)