§ 17.4.602. S-1 special institutional zone.

A.

Intent. The S-1 special institutional zone has been established as a district in which the primary use of land is for the location of buildings, structures, and related facilities for the education and housing and care of persons residing in or attending the state training school. The objective in establishing the S-1 zone is to coordinate and facilitate the design, construction and maintenance of building, utilities, services, and facilities of the institution with the needs and requirements of the territory surrounding the project and with the needs and requirements of the city as a whole.

The zone is characterized by a harmonious grouping of buildings situated in attractively landscaped settings among expansive lawns, open space, and well maintained trees, shrubs and other plantings.

Representative of the uses in this zone are instructional and administrative buildings, living accommodations for students, patients, residents and employees; recreational facilities, parks, playgrounds, utilities and other service buildings incidental to the purposes of the institution.

In order to accomplish the objectives and purposes of this title and to promote the characteristics of this zone, the following regulations shall apply in the S-1 institutional zone.

B.

Permitted uses. The following buildings, structures and uses of land shall be permitted in the S-1 institutional zone:

1.

Academic and vocational buildings and structures housing the training, recreational, administrative and service activities of the institution.

2.

Dwellings for the housing of residents, patients and employees of the institution.

3.

Churches, parks, playgrounds, museums, aquariums, botanical gardens.

4.

Accessory buildings and structures incidental and auxiliary to permitted primary buildings and uses.

5.

Low power radio service antenna facilities, subject to the provisions of Section 17.6.112 of this code.

C.

Area requirements. No single S-1 institutional zone shall contain less than thirty acres.

D.

Location requirements. All buildings shall be set back a distance of at least thirty feet from any public street, provided that the portion of any building having a height greater than thirty feet shall be set back an additional distance of one foot for every one foot of height above thirty feet. All buildings shall be located apart from each other a distance of at least the average height of the two adjacent buildings.

E.

Height requirement of buildings. No portion of a building shall exceed a height equal to the distance of the closest public street.

F.

Special requirements.

1.

Prior to construction of any building or structure, a site plan shall be submitted to, and approved in accordance with the provisions of Section 17.6.101. Said plan shall be prepared in accordance with city standards.

(Ord. No. 05-05-18)