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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances Book 12, Page 1077, No Ordinance Number1077 AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE FINAL REPORT OF THE PADUCAH PLANNING AND ZONING COPutiIISSION RESPECTING THE AMENDMENT OF SECTION 12 OF THE PADUCAH ZONING ORDINANCE AND AR4ENDING SAID SECTIOI4 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: SECTION 1. That a resolution adopted by the Paducah Planning and Zoning Commission on February 5, 1953 entitled: "A RESOLUTION CONSTITUTING THE FINAL REPORT OF THE PADUCAH PLANNING AND ZONING COP241ISSION ON THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF SECTION 12 OF THE PADUCAH ZONING ORDINANCE" be approved as the final report of said Commission respecting the matters therein set forth. SECTION 2. That Section 12 of the Paducah Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance Book 12, page 709) be, and it is hereby, amended by the addition of the following new subsection, the same to follow the present subsection numbered 7: 11$ Medical Development Unit (a) Land Deemed One Lot - Any parcel of land, including any interior street, which is designed as and used for a medical develop- ment unit may be deemed to be one lot. To be considered a medical development unit, the parcel of land must include at least 40,000 square feet exclusive of the area of any interior public street. 11(b) Definition - A medical development unit may include either hospital buildings or buildings providing professional facilities for physicians and dentists with common facilities for laboratory, x-ray, and similar ancillary services, or buildings designed to accomodate any combination of such uses, together with such related facilities and business services as are necessary and appropriate to serve the incidental needs of the physicians, dentists, employees, and patients using such unit, provided that any incidental business service shall be housed in a principal building or buildings without separate exterior public entrances. "(c) Conditions - Medical development units may be permitted in B and R zones, subject to the following conditions: (1) Medical development unit buildings shall comply with the requirements of the respective zones in which they are located with reference to height, set -back distances, yards, lot coverage, and exceptions, any such medical development unit buildings in an R zone being treated as one main residential building for this purpose; pro- vided that where, due to the unusual width of a lot', side yards having an aggregate width in excess of 30 feet would be required for a build- ing of normal height within the zone, the aggregate side yard width need not exceed 30 feet except to the extent required as an adjustment for additional height allowable vrsthin the zone. In the case of corner lots, through lots, and lots having frontage on three or more streets, the board may determine which yard frontage shall be deemed to be front, side and rear yards so as to make the layout of the unit conform to the subdivision pattern of property in adjacent blocks; and the board may require that any or all such yards be treated as front yards when such treatment is deemed necessary to maintain harmony with neighborhood property. 11(2) No exception shall be granted under this provision unless the Board finds as a matter of fact that adequate off-street parking space is provided within the area of the medical development unit to satisfy the reasonably anticipated needs of all persons using or employed at such unit, and the ratio of parking spaces provided to square feet of floor area shall in no event be reduced below one parking space for each 400 square feet of gross floor area thereof. Open space re- quired to satisfy lot coverage provisions may be used for parking 107$ purposes; provided that off-street parking shall not be allowable within the areas of minimum front and side yards; provided however that parking spaces shall be allowed within the areas of minimum side yards which lie adjacent to R-4 B or M Zones. The minimum side yard requirements referred to in the preceding sentence are those requirements which are expressed in a specific minimum footage as distinguished from aggregate side yard requirements which are expressed in a percentage of total lot width. Necessary approaches to o_"£ -street parking spaces shall be permitted to cross front and side yards. "(d) Application of Regulations - i'?Here a medical development unit consists of two or more buildings to beconstructed on a plot of ground not subdivided into the customary streets and lots, and which will not be so subdivided; or where the existing or contemplated street and lot layout make it impractical to apply the requirements of this ordinance to the individual building units in such medical development unit, the application of such requirements to such unit may be varied in a manner that will.be in harmony with the character of the neighbor- hood and that will`•insure a standard of open space no lower than permitted by.this ordinance in the zone in which the proposed, medical development unit is to be located. If the Board approves plans for a proposed medical development unit, building permits and certificates of occupancy shall be issued in conformance with such approved plans for a proposed medical development unit, building permits and certificates of occupancy shall be issued in conformance with such approved plans, even though the use of the land and the location of the buildings with respect to each other do not conform to the regulations for the zone in which the medical development unit is located." SECTION 3. That if any section, paragraph or provision of this ordinance shall be.found to be inoperative, ineffective or invalid for any cause, the deficiency or invalidity of such section, paragraph or provision shall not affect any other section, paragraph or provision hereof, it being the purpose -and intent of this ordinance to make each and every section, paragraph and provision hereof separable from all other sections, paragraphs and provisions, so that if any section, paragraph or provision hereof shall be found to be invalid, inopera- tive or ineffective, the deficiency or invalidity thereof shall not affeft any other"section, paragraph or provision hereof. SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall be in full force and e_"fect from and after its adoption. mayor Passed by the Board of Commissioners February 17, 1953 Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, February 17, 1943.