Sec. 656.332. - Public Buildings and Facilities Category.

This is a broad land use category that depicts major public use or community service activities. Uses include all types of public facilities; i.e., institutional, communication and utilities, and transportation. With the exception of utility substations and other similar nontrip generation uses, community and regional serving public/semi-public sites should abut a roadway classified as a collector or higher facility on the adopted Functional Highway Classification Map of the Comprehensive Plan. The following primary and secondary zoning districts may be considered in the Public Buildings and Facilities Category depicted on the Future Land Use Maps of the Comprehensive Plan. A. Primary zoning districts. The primary zoning districts shall include the following: (1) Public Building and Facilities-1 (PBF-1); Section 656.332 . (2) Public Building and Facilities-2 (PBF-2); Section 656.332 . (3) Public Building and Facilities-3 (PBF-3); Section 656.332 . These districts allow uses and activities that provide community service functions such as public buildings and grounds, schools, colleges and universities, criminal justice facilities, military installations, public/private institutions, major public utilities, and transportation facilities as described below. It is the intent of this Zoning Code that all lands which are owned or leased by federal, State or local governments and are used for a purpose which is particularly and peculiarly related to governmental functions shall be located in a PBF-1 District. Any lawful government activity is permitted upon the lands without restriction so long as the title to the land is vested in or leased by the government and provided such use is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. However, public housing shall not be considered a purpose which is particularly and peculiarly related to governmental functions, and need not be located in a PBF-1 District, so long as such housing is located in a zoning district which would otherwise permit such housing. I. Public Building and Facilities-1 (PBF-1) District. (a) Permitted uses and structures . All lawful government uses, except those governmental uses listed hereunder as being permissible only by exception and further provided such uses are consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. This includes collection bins for textile recycling meeting the development criteria and performance standards set forth in Part 4, Section 656.421 (Textile Recycling Bins). This provision shall not preclude essential services meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4 herein from being also located in residential, commercial, industrial and other zoning districts which specifically provide for the same. (b) Permissible uses by exception. (1) Essential services, including water, sewer, gas, telephone, radio and electric, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (2) Solid waste management facilities. (3) Any government use structure containing more than 40,000 square feet. (4) Any government use structures containing more than one principal structure on a lot. (c) Minimum lot requirements (width and area). None. (d) Minimum yard requirements. None. (e) Maximum height of structures. None. (f) Impervious surface ratio as required by Section 654.129 . II. Public Buildings and Facilities-2 (PBF-2) District. (a) Permitted uses and structures. (1) Institutions, including middle and secondary schools, colleges and universities. (2) Private clubs. (3) Art galleries, libraries, museums and community centers. (4) Homes for the aged or orphans, including professional offices associated therewith, and similar uses. (5) Parks, playgrounds and playfields or recreational or community structures meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (6) Churches, including a rectory or similar uses, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (7) Nursing homes. (8) Essential services, including water, sewer, gas, telephone, radio and electric, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (9) Hospitals, including professional offices, medical clinics and pharmacies, associated therewith. (10) Cemeteries. (11) Hospice facilities. (12) Collection bins for textile recycling meeting the development criteria and performance standards set forth in Part 4, Section 656.421 (Textile Recycling Bins). (b) Permitted accessory uses and structures. See Section 656.403 . (c) Permissible uses by exception. (1) Communication facilities. (2) Private utilities. (3) Care centers meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (4) Essential services, including water, sewer, gas, telephone, radio and electric, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (5) Sale and service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises or off-premises consumption in conjunction with a permitted of permissible use by exception. (6) Churches, including a rectory or similar uses, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (7) Off-street parking lots meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (8) Homeless center. (d) Minimum lot requirements (width and area). (1) Width—70 feet. (2) Area—7,000 square feet. (e) Minimum yard requirements. (1) Front—20 feet. (2) Side—Ten feet. (3) Rear—Ten feet. (f) Maximum height of structures. 35 feet; provided, that height may be unlimited where all required yards are increased by one foot for each three feet of building height or fraction thereof in excess of 35 feet. (g) Maximum lot coverage by all buildings. 35 percent. Impervious surface ratio as required by Section 654.129 . III. Public Buildings and Facilities-3 (PBF-3) District. (a) Permitted uses and structures. (1) Institutions, including middle and secondary schools, colleges and universities. (2) Private clubs. (3) Art galleries, libraries, museums and community centers. (4) Homes for the aged or orphans and similar uses. (5) Parks, playgrounds and playfields or recreational or community structures meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (6) Churches, including a rectory or similar uses, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (7) Nursing homes. (8) Communication facilities. (9) Group care homes meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (10) Hospitals, professional offices, medical clinics and pharmacies, associated therewith. (11) Essential services, including water, sewer, gas, telephone, radio and electric, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (12) Public transportation terminals such as airports and bus or train stations including normal uses customarily associated therewith including gift or curio shops, service establishments such as auto rental and travel agencies, barber or beauty shops, retail sales and service of alcoholic beverages for either on- or off-premise consumption, professional and business offices, wholesaling, warehousing, distribution and freight terminals, light manufacturing and fabricating, aeronautical schools, golf courses, agricultural, horticultural and forestry uses, aircraft maintenance and restoration facilities, and similar uses. (13) Cemeteries. (14) Hospice facilities. (15) Collection bins for textile recycling meeting the development criteria and performance standards set forth in Part 4, Section 656.421 (Textile Recycling Bins). (b) Permitted accessory uses and structures. See Section 656.403 . (c) Permissible uses by exception. (1) Private utilities. (2) Sanitary landfills and construction and demolition debris landfills meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (3) Care centers meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (4) Criminal justice facilities. (5) Ball parks, stadiums and arenas, etc. (6) Essential services, including water, sewer, gas, telephone, radio and electric, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (7) Reserved. (8) Military installations. (9) Sale and service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises or off-premises consumption in conjunction with a permitted or permissible use by exception. (10) Churches, including a rectory or similar uses, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (11) Off-street parking lots meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (12) Yard waste composting including the mulching process, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (13) Uses which are directly related to a permitted or permissible use by exception in the PBF-3 District, such as: (i) Hotels or motels. (ii) Golf courses. (iii) Service stations. (iv) Restaurants. (v) Car rental agencies. (vi) Fire stations. (vii) Warehousing. (d) Minimum lot requirements (width and area). (1) Width—100 feet. (2) Area—10,000 square feet. (e) Minimum yard requirements. (1) Front—20 feet. (2) Side—Ten feet. (3) Rear—Ten feet. (f) Maximum height of structures. 35 feet; provided, however, that height maybe unlimited where all required yards are increased by one foot for each three feet of building height or fraction thereof in excess of 35 feet. (g) Maximum lot coverage by all buildings. 60 percent. Impervious surface ratio as required by Section 654.129 . B. Secondary zoning district. The following secondary zoning districts may be permitted in the Public Buildings and Facilities Category as depicted on the Future Land Use Maps of the Comprehensive Plan, subject to the district regulations for same. (1) Agriculture (AGR); Section 656.331 . (2) Conservation (CSV); Section 656.333 . (3) Planned Unit Development (PUD); Section 656.340 . The aforementioned secondary zoning districts may be permitted provided that the supplemental criteria and standards for same specified in Subpart G, Part 3 are met. (Ord. 91-59-148, § 1; Ord. 91-761-410, § 1; Ord. 91-1290-590, § 5; Ord. 92-955-674, § 6; Ord. 93-1968-1157, § 1; Ord. 94-697-395, § 1; Ord. 94-968-555, § 1; Ord. 98-1018-E, § 1; Ord. 2017-842-E , § 2; Ord. 2019-375-E , § 1)