Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 25%
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Stewart Street
- Geographic extent
- Former Stewart Street hospital site
Uses
Permitted by right32
- Dormitories for medical and dental interns, nurses, and allied health personnel
- Nursing homes and rest homes, and assisted living facilities
- Housing for the elderly and handicapped (limited to 25% of gross floor area)
- Health care support services and offices, general medical offices, dental offices and services, pharmaceutical centers, optical offices and clinics, medical reference laboratories, medical research facilities, and outpatient treatment centers
- Diagnostic laboratories serving the medical or dental profession
- Specialty hospitals limited to pediatrics, obstetrics, comprehensive medical rehabilitation services, hospices and psychiatric (limited to 25% of gross floor area)
- Durable medical equipment facilities (no outdoor sale or display, display space max 4,000 sq ft)
- Adult day care
- Day care facilities or day care nurseries
- Institutions of higher education, including colleges and universities
- Educational facilities for the training of interns, nurses and allied health personnel
- Personal service and retail establishments serving the HS District (cumulative max 3,000 sq ft)
- Automatic bank teller machines
- Restaurants for on-premises consumption only (cumulative max 3,000 sq ft)
- Conference facilities
- Indoor recreational facilities
- Sports medicine clinics
- Offices for not-for-profit agencies (cumulative max 10,000 sq ft)
- Accessory uses including hospital laundry, medical service, warehousing, maintenance and materials management for medical center use
- Single family detached dwelling
- Group Home
- Surface parking pads for mobile medical treatment equipment (screened)
- Transit stops
- Public libraries
- Fire and rescue squad stations
- Public parks, community gardens, and playgrounds
- Churches and places of religious worship (excluding rescue missions and temporary revival tents)
- Public schools, elementary, middle, and high, and private schools with same curricula
- Off-street surface parking and loading in accordance with Section 18-6 or master traffic and parking plan
- Signs in accordance with Section 18-8
- Public utilities (screened, excluding incinerator facilities)
- Wireless facilities and wireless support structures eligible for administrative review per Section 18-30-4
Conditional / special use3
- Parking garages
- Waivers from area, height, density, bulk, width, and landscaping regulations (subject to findings)
- Wireless facilities and wireless support structures not eligible for administrative review
Accessory4
Extracted standards
16 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for single family dwellingSingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.8,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The minimum lot area for a single family dwelling shall be 8,000 square feet.
- Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. for single family dwellingSingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.50 ft
The minimum lot width for all uses shall be 80 feet, except that the minimum lot width for single family dwellings shall be 50 feet.
Other
- Maximum display area for durable medical equipment facilities4,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The total building area devoted to display space shall not exceed 4,000 gross square feet.
- Maximum percentage of gross floor area for elderly and handicapped housing25 pct
Housing for the elderly and handicapped, provided that the building area devoted to such uses shall not exceed 25 percent of the gross floor area.
- Maximum cumulative area for not-for-profit agency offices10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Offices for not-for-profit agencies provided that the cumulative total building area devoted to such uses does not exceed 10,000 square feet.
- Maximum cumulative area for personal service and retail establishments3,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Personal service and retail establishments serving the HS District provided that the cumulative total building area devoted to such uses does not exceed 3,000 gross square feet.
- Maximum cumulative area for restaurants3,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Restaurants for on-premises consumption only by persons or families of persons using the other services and facilities of the HS District provided that the cumulative total building area devoted to such uses does not exceed 3,000 gross square feet.
- Maximum percentage of gross floor area for specialty hospitals25 pct
The total building area devoted to such uses shall not exceed 25 percent of the gross floor area.
- Minimum average floor area per unit for elderly and handicapped housing600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The minimum average floor area per unit for housing for the elderly and handicapped shall be 600 square feet; and no unit shall have less than 500 square feet of gross floor area.
- Minimum floor areaMinimum floor areaThe smallest dwelling the district permits, in square feet of living space. for any elderly housing unit500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No unit shall have less than 500 square feet of gross floor area.
- Minimum floor areaMinimum floor areaThe smallest dwelling the district permits, in square feet of living space. for new principal health services structure50,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A new structure with 50,000 square feet or more of floor area.
- Screening of loading docks, maintenance facilities, and vehicular service access points
Loading docks, maintenance facilities, and vehicular service access points shall be fully screened, landscaped and/or fenced to limit views to the general public, and shall be sited to minimize their impact on land uses adjacent to the HS District.
- Required site plan exhibits
Applications for site plan approval shall be accompanied by graphic exhibits, concept plan, traffic and parking plan, open space/landscaping plan, and utility plan.
Setback
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting residential or residential-office districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
Rear. Twenty feet, except when abutting a residential or residential-office district in which case there shall be a minimum rear yard of 25 feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting residential or residential-office districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
Side. Ten feet, except when abutting a residential or residential-office district in which case there shall be a minimum side yard of 20 feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for single family dwellingSingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.6 ft
The side yard for a single family dwelling shall be six feet.
From the ordinance
This district establishes regulations intended to encourage the innovative, adaptive reuse of the former Stewart Street hospital site with lower intensity uses and development impact on adjacent zoning districts than existed prior to the relocation of the general hospital.