HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-12-11; City Council; 9743; CMC 21.21 adds - Establish hospital-overlay (H-O) zone1
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9743 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 21, OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE ADDITION OF CHAPTER 21.21 ESTABLISHING THE HOSPITAL-OVERLAY (H-0) ZONE.
The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: That Title 21, of the Carlsbad Municipal Code
is amended by the addition of Chapter 21.21 to read as follows:
Chapter 21.21
H-0 HOSPITAL OVERLAY ZONE
Sect ions
21.21 -010 21 -21 -015 21.21.020 21.21 -030 21.21.040
21.21.050
21.21.060
21.21.070
21.21.080 21.21.090 21.21.100
21.21.110 21.21.120 21.21.130
21.21.140 21.21.150 21.21.160
21.21.170
21.21 -180
21.21 -190 21.21.200
Intent and Purpose Prohibition Application Criteria for Implementation Permitted Uses
Site Development Plan
Lot Area
Lot Width
Building Height Setbacks Setbacks - Structures over 35 feet in height Landscaping
Bui Id ing Coverage Signs Parking - Minimum Walls and Fences Lighting
Roof Appurtenances Trash Enclosures
Loading Areas
Expiration
21.21.010 Intent and Purpose: The intent and purpose
of the hospital overlay (H-0) zone is to:
(1) Provide for the development of hospital facilities to meet the community’s major medical needs;
(2) Provide a method whereby hospitals may be developed in existing zones; (3) Promote comprehensive planning of a major hospital in conjunction with supporting facilities; (4) Ensure the compatibility of a hospital with
surrounding future and existing land use: (5) Provide the city with a procedure to analyze fiscal and environmental impacts caused by a hospital and its supporting facilities.
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21.21.015 Prohibition. Hospitals shall be located only >n property which has hospital overlay zoning .
21.21.020 Application: The H-0 zone may be applied to
?roperty in any zone except the CT, R-T, R-W, 0-S & RMHP zones. rhe H-0 zone may not be applied to an area less than 25 acres in size. In addition to the required application for a zone change,
3pplication for the H-0 zone shall also include a traffic study
malyzing possible impacts on surrounding streets and intersections, and an economic impact analysis describing the
?ositive and negative fiscal impacts of a hospital and any
supporting facility on the city.
21.21.030 Criteria for Implementation: Before 3pplication of the H-0 zone to any property the following Zonditions must exist:
(1) There is a need in the community for a hospital at the proposed location.
(2) The proposed zone will be compatible with
;urrounding zoning and land use.
(3) Development of a hospital at the proposed location
Jill not be detrimental to public safety and welfare.
(4) The proposed site is suitable in size and location €or a major hospital facility.
(5) The circulation system is adequate to serve a major qospital facility.
(6) The proposed hospital will not create any significant impacts on the environment.
(7) Development of the hospital will not cause adverse 2conomic impacts on the City which cannot be mitigated to an acceptable level or for which the Council cannot find that the need for the hospital overrides the negative economic impact."
hospitals under Division 1, part 1.5 of the California Health and Safety Code.
chapter concurrently with the application for the zone change.
(8) The proposed hospital has met all the criteria for
(9) A site development plan is submitted under this
21.21.040 Permitted Uses: Subject to the approval of a site development plan processed pursuant to this chapter the
following uses are permitted in the H-0 zone:
(1) Hospital (as defined in section 21.04.170 of the
Carlsbad Municipal Code). (2) Accessory uses and structures where related to the hospital, including but not limited to the following: (a) laboratories (b) medical offices (c) pharmacies
(d ) health services such as senior citizens
nutrition centers, physical therapy facilities and medical
clinics (e) trauma facilities, including but not not
limited to overnight residential facilities for trauma staff,
helicopter pads
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(f) skilled nurse facilities
(9) residential care facilities
(h) alcohol and drug care facilities (i) restaurants within a hospital
(j ) medical research facilities (k) other similar uses normally associated with a hospital or medical off ices
21.21.050 Site Development Plan: (a) Approval of a
site development plan, processed according to the provisions of
chapter 21.06 (Q-overlay) shall be required for any development in the H-0 zone except that for review of a hospital the Planning
Commission shall act in an advisory capacity to the City Council.
After review by the Planning Commission, the site development plan for the hospital shall be submitted to the City Council for
approval. The site plan shall be processed for review by the City
Zouncil in the same manner as the plan is processed for Planning
Zommission review. After construction of the hospital, site plans
for the development of accessory uses permitted in this zone shall De reviewed by the Planning Commission with appeal to the City Zouncil. A hospital and accessory uses proposed as one jevelopment may be approved by a single site plan which would be 9rocessed in the same manner as a hospital alone.
zonditions necessary to ensure compliance with the provisions of Section 21.21.030. Such conditions may include, but shall not be limited to, requirements for street and public facility improvements on and off the site, requirements for mitigation of
sdverse economic impacts, including but not limited to the payment
2f fees to provide public facilities, and requirements for
nitigation of adverse environmental impacts.
(b) The site development plan shall include any
21.21.060 Lot Area: The minimum lot size for newly zreated lots within this zone shall be 25,000 square feet.
21.21.070 Lot Width: Every newly created lot shall
lave a width of not less than 100 feet at the rear line of the
required front yard.
21.21.080 Building Height: The maximum height of
structures within the H-0 zone shall not exceed 35 feet. 4dditional building height may be permitted by a site development
?lan approved by the City Council.
21.21.090 Setbacks: Every lot shall provide required
yards, measured from the property line as follows:
Driveways/ 1 Story 2-3 Stories Parking Building up to 35'
a) front yard 10' 15' 20 ' b) front yard on
an arterial 20 ' 25 ' 35 '
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c) front yard on a
e) side yard on
f) side yard on a
g) interior side
prime arterial 30 ' 40 ' 50 ' d) street side yard 10' 15' 20 '
an arterial 15' 20 ' 30'
prime arterial 30 ' 40' 50'
yard 5' 10' 10'
h) rear yard 5' 10' 10'
Through lots shall be considered to have two front yards and shall observe setbacks accordingly.
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21.21.100 Setbacks: Structures over 35 feet in Height 811 The above specified yard requirements apply only to those structures up to a height of 35'. For any other structure, which
has been approved for increased height by site development plan,
all required yards shall be increased at a ratio of .5 additional feet horizontally, for every 1.5' of additional vertical construction.
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21.21.110 Landscaping: All landscaping shall comply l2 /I with the City of Carlsbad Landscape Guidelines Manual . All
landscaped areas shall be served by a permanent irrigation system
including bubblers or sprinklers. Prior to approval of a
building permit, each applicant shall submit a landscape and
irrigation plan for the approval of the Land Use Planning
Manager. All approved improvements shall be installed prior to occupancy of the building .
planted with plant species consistent with the City Landscape
Guidelines Manual. Variations in ground plane by use of undulating mounding is encouraged to screen parking areas and to enhance the landscaping and building architecture . Landscaping along arterials should comply with the city's streetscaping
program. (b) Parking Areas - A minimum of 10 percent of that portion of the site devoted to uncovered parking shall be landscaped. Landscaping shall be designed so as to offer relief
from the monotony of rows of parked cars, and to create an
overhead canopy. A minimum of one 15 gallon tree per 5 parking stalls shall be required in the parking area. All exposed
parking areas shall be screened with landscaping, contouring and
mounding.
(a) Required Yards - All setback areas shall be
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24 I! all structures shall not cover more than 50 percent of the lot on
which they are located.
structure or parking is located within or under the building it
serves, the total coverage of all structures shall not exceed 75
percent of the lot. This provision shall apply only it 75 percent of the required parking is located in the parking
structure or within or under the building it serves.
(b) For developments which include a parking
21.21.120 Building Coverage (a) For developments which utilize surface parking,
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21.21.130 Signs - A detailed sign program shall be
submitted to the Land Use Planning Manager for approval prior to
occupancy of any new building or installation of any new signs.
All signs proposed in the H-0 zone shall comply with the
provisions of Chapter 21.41 and the following regulations: (a) Total permitted sign area - Total maximum allowable area of all signs, including monument siqns, shall not exceed one square foot per lineal foot of building-frontage.
may be permitted for each lot. Said monument sign shall be no
greater than six feet in height or six feet in length, (including
the base) with a maximum of two sign faces. Comprehensively
planned developments of a hospital and accessory uses may be
permitted additional monument signs, above the allowable area,
through the Site Development Plan process.
(b) Monument Signs - One freestanding monument sign
21.21.140 Parking - Minimum: (a) Hospital - two spaces for each bed (b) Medical or dentai offices of clinics - one space
(c) Other uses - parking shall be required pursuant
(d) Additional parking may be required as part of
for each 200 square feet of gross floor area
to section 21.44 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code
the site development plan. Up to twenty-five percent of the required parking may be provided as compact spaces, eight feet by
15 feet in size.
21.21.150 Walls and Fences. A solid masonry or stucco wall, six feet in height, shall be constructed along the common
lot line with any residentially zoned property, except in the front yard where the wall shall be reduced to 42" in height.
Walls and fences up to a height of six feet are permitted except
that no wall or fence shall be erected in any front yard setback
in excess of 42" and that all walls and fences shall observe a
minimum setback of 10' from the property line for a side yard on a street. Chain link, barbed wire, razor ribbon or other similar fences are specifically not permitted.
2 1 . 2 1 . 1 6 0 Light ing (a) Exterior lighting is required for a1 employee
and visitor parking areas, walkways, and building entrances and exits.
or indirect glare to any offsite properties or public right of ways.
(b) Light sources shall be designed to avoid direct
21.21.170 Roof-Appurtenances. All roof appurtenances,
including air conditioners, shall be architecturally integrated and shielded from view and the sound buffered from adjacent
properties and streets, to the satisfaction of the Land Use
Planning Manager.
21.21.180 Trash Enclosures. Trash receptacle areas shall be enclosed by a six-foot high masonry wall with gates pursuant to City Standards.
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21.21.190 Loading Areas. All loading areas shall be
oriented and/or screened so as to be unobtrusive from the
adjacent streets or properties.
21.21.200 Expiration: If construction of the hospital has not ciars from the approval of the Hospital Overlay Zone and site development plan on a specific area, the H-0 zone and site plan shall expire and the property will return to its underlying zoning.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective
thirty days after its adoption, and the City Clerk shall certify
to the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be published at
least once in the Carlsbad Journal within fifteen days after its
adoption.
INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the
Carlsbad City Council held on the 4th day of December
1984, and thereafter
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 11th day of December , 1984 by
the following vote, to wit:
AYES : Council lmtikrs Casler, Lewis, Kulchin, Chick and Pettine
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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