[Added 5-16-2002 by Ord. No. 755]
In amplification of § 116-2, the specific intent of this article is as follows:
A building may be erected or used and a lot
may be used or occupied for the following purposes and no other, provided
that the requirements of the sections following are met:
A.
Continuing-care retirement community. Such continuing-care
retirement community shall consist of a congregate building and independent
living units, as follows:
(1)
The congregate building shall contain all of
the following components:
(a)
Assisted living facilities providing room, board
and personal care assistance with activities of daily living (such
as bathing, grooming and meal preparation) for individuals able to
retain a moderate degree of independence.
(b)
Skilled nursing care facilities providing professionally
supervised nursing care and related medical or other health services
to individuals not in need of hospitalization, but whose needs are
above the level of assisted living.
(2)
The congregate building may contain the following
additional components, which shall be strictly limited to occupancy
in the congregate building:
(a)
Independent apartment living units consisting
of multiple dwellings.
(b)
Services for the exclusive use of residents
and their guests, limited to the following:
[1]
Rehabilitation and physical therapy facilities,
including wellness center, swimming pools and Jacuzzis.
[2]
Auditoriums.
[3]
Activity rooms, craft rooms, libraries, lounges
and similar recreation facilities.
[4]
On-site retail and service facilities, limited
to barbershop; beauty parlor; convenience store; pharmacy; newsstand;
gift shop; bank; postal services; snack bar/coffee shop; bakery; and
handicraft shop, staffed solely by residents of the continuing-care
retirement community. In the aggregate, such facilities shall be limited
to no more than 5,000 square feet of floor area.
[5]
Administrative offices used in the management
of the continuing-care retirement community.
[6]
Not more than four overnight guest rooms.
(3)
The independent living units may consist of single-family detached,
single-family semidetached, attached and multifamily dwellings.
[Amended 2-27-2014 by Ord. No. 936]
B.
Golf use, so long as the use does not exceed 5% of
the site and does not include a chip and putt course or a driving
range. The use shall be adjacent and contiguous to an existing golf
course.
In a continuing-care retirement community development,
the following dimensional regulations shall apply:
A.
Minimum lot area: 90 acres.
B.
Minimum lot width at building setback line: 300 feet.
C.
Minimum setback from existing public streets on which
the Continuing-Care Retirement Community District abuts.
D.
Minimum setback from other property lines:
(1)
Congregate building: 300 feet, or 500 feet from
any existing dwelling, whichever is greater.
(2)
Single-family detached, single-family semidetached,
and attached dwelling independent living units: 100 feet.
(3)
Off-street parking facilities and refuse collection
stations: 100 feet.
(4)
Facility entrance at a public street: 100 feet
from side and rear lot lines.
(5)
Accessory buildings: 50 feet, or 100 feet from
existing residential lots.
(6)
Stormwater management facilities: 100 feet from existing residential lots, or as otherwise required by § 116-31.1B.
(7)
Multifamily independent dwellings: 125 feet.
[Added 2-27-2014 by Ord. No. 936]
E.
Minimum building setback from common off-street parking facilities
with the capacity of the six or more vehicles or entrance and exit
roads: 20 feet. Entrance and exit roads shall include the main road
from the site entrance up to the first internal intersection of two
or more roads which intersection is the beginning point of a loop
road. Minimum building setback from all other interior roads that
connect to the entrance and exit road and common off-street parking
facilities with the capacity of five or fewer vehicles shall be 15
feet. Building setback criteria are not to be applied to loading docks,
porte-cochere areas and service areas.
[Amended 2-27-2014 by Ord. No. 936]
G.
Maximum density: 3.70 dwelling units per acre. For
the purpose of this subsection, every three beds in the assisted living
facilities and skilled nursing care facilities shall be deemed the
equivalent of one dwelling unit.
H.
Minimum open space: 30% of the lot area. For the purposes
of open space calculation in the CCRC District, "open space" shall
not include public or private streets and driveways, public street
rights-of-way, parking areas, any areas within 25 feet of any principal
building, or other public improvements; nor shall it include the fifty-foot
buffer area along the perimeter of the site.
I.
Maximum height.
J.
Maximum building area: 15%.
K.
Maximum impervious ground cover: 35%.
In a continuing-care retirement community development,
the following development requirements shall apply:
A.
The number of assisted living facility beds and skilled
nursing care facility beds shall not exceed 30% of the total number
of independent living dwelling units.
B.
The number of apartment units shall not exceed 75%
of the total number of independent living dwelling units.
C.
Buildings shall be in accordance with an overall plan
and shall be designed as a single architectural scheme. No single
wall face shall have a horizontal dimension in excess of 175 feet.
E.
Outdoor refuse collection stations shall be adequately
screened and landscaped so as to be out of view of adjacent properties
and public streets.
F.
Any outdoor lighting shall be arranged so that no
direct rays from such lighting shall fall upon a neighboring property
or street; nor shall any high brightness surface of the luminaries
be visible from neighboring residential lots or from a public street.
The incident spill light level off of a property shall not exceed
0.3 footcandle at the lot line and shall not exceed 0.5 footcandle
at the street line. No lighting fixture shall have a height in excess
of 14 feet.
G.
No deliveries or solid waste collection activities
shall be permitted between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
H.
Any development must be serviced by public water and
sanitary sewage systems.
I.
Walking trails, gardens and public gathering spaces
shall be incorporated into the required open space.
[Amended 10-21-1982 by Ord. No. 442]
J.
Off-street parking. Off-street parking shall be in accordance with Article XXVI of this chapter and § 105-38 of the Whitemarsh Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance. Where a CCRC parking garage is utilized to provide off-street parking spaces, the following standards shall apply:
[Added 12-18-2003 by Ord. No. 783]
(1)
Parking spaces within or upon a CCRC parking
garage may be located within 10 feet of a structure.
(2)
Planting strips shall not be required to separate
parking areas within a CCRC parking garage.
(3)
Interior landscaping shall not be required.
(4)
Piers and/or columns may be located along the
perimeter of a parking space. In no case shall supportive piers or
columns reduce the overall required width of a parking space by more
than 12 inches.
(5)
A two-way aisle may be reduced to a width of
20 feet in locations where such aisle does not serve (in part) as
a back-up area for an abutting parking space.
(6)
Impervious coverage or building coverage, whichever
is greater, shall be reduced on the site to an amount equal to the
area of the planting strips and aisle reduction granted above.
