Sec. 24-4311
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Frontage
- Hospital minimum street abutment300 ft
A hospital must abut a public street for at least 300 feet.
Other
- Access from arterial/collector/major access road
All health care facilities must be accessible from an arterial, collector, or major access road without passing through a residential neighborhood.
- CCRC minimum recreation areas
Any continuing care retirement community must have at least three physically separate areas that provide space for recreational and social activities at different intensity levels. Each outdoor area intended for active recreation must have a minimum area of 5,000 square feet and no dimension may be less than 50 feet.
- CCRC minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. percentage10 pct
A minimum of ten percent of a continuing care retirement community's land area must be devoted to outdoor open space, indoor or outdoor recreation facilities, and indoor or outdoor social-oriented amenities, including community centers.
- Hospital emergency vehicle access
Any hospital that includes an emergency room must include vehicular access and circulation systems that provide safe and separate emergency vehicle access, with minimal conflicts with other vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Entrances designated for emergency vehicles must be from an arterial, major collector, or major access road.
From the ordinance
All health care facilities must be accessible from an arterial, collector, or major access road without passing through a residential neighborhood. A minimum of ten percent of a continuing care retirement community's land area must be devoted to outdoor open space... A hospital must abut a public street for at least 300 feet.