2.7.540 Special Development Standards.
Within the Medical Services District Overlay Zone certain nonmedical uses are permitted or conditionally allowed within the RM and RH Zones. These uses are intended to support the medical services uses and their customers.
A. Nonmedical Uses. Nonmedical uses excluding residential and shelter uses as specified in Table 2.7.520 must be developed in conformance with the following special standards:
1. Nonmedical uses may be allowed when accessory to a medical use building or development provided the gross floor area of the accessory use does not exceed 4,000 square feet in area for buildings less than 50,000 square feet. For medical buildings with a gross floor area greater than 50,000 square feet, no more than 10 percent of the gross floor area of the building may be occupied by an accessory nonmedical use, unless otherwise approved through a conditional use permit.
2. Except for hotels, nonmedical uses may occur within the Medical Service District Overlay Zone as a stand-alone business provided the total gross floor area of any individual building does not exceed 4,000 square feet or, where more than one nonmedical use shares one building, the total building area does not exceed 8,000 square feet.
3. Hotels may be developed as a stand-alone business within the Medical Service District Overlay Zone provided 75 percent of the guest rooms are designed and furnished for multi-night stays by providing in-unit amenities for sleeping, eating, cooking (more than a microwave), and sanitation.
B. Standards for Commercial/Retail Uses and Eating and Drinking Establishments.
1. Drive-up windows and/or drive-through services shall not be permitted.
2. A restaurant, delicatessen, cafeteria, or coffee shop may include an outdoor seating/eating area, provided the outdoor area consists of an all-weather surface not greater than 900 square feet in gross floor area and screened from residentially zoned properties by a sight-obscuring hedge and/or fence as determined through the site plan review process.
3. For service commercial/retail uses, hotels, and eating and drinking establishments as allowed in Table 2.7.520:
a. There shall be no more than a total of eight acres of site area developed for stand-alone commercial/retail uses, hotels, and/or eating and drinking establishments within the Medical District Overlay Zone on residentially zoned land.
b. Four of the allowable eight acres shall be located south of Neff Road and are in addition to the existing Commercial Convenience zoned property along 27th Street and Cushing Drive (Watt Way) and Medical Center Drive.
c. The other four acres of allowable area shall be located north of Neff Road.
C. Landscaping Requirements. The following standards shall apply to all new development:
1. Street Trees. Street trees shall be planted along the frontage of all properties. Only street trees from a list maintained by the City shall be planted. Street trees shall be planted a maximum of 30 feet on center. Trees shall be a minimum of two-inch caliper measured four feet from ground level.
2. Buffering. The City may require additional landscaping within setback areas to mitigate adverse noise, light, glare, and aesthetic impacts to adjacent residential properties from new development. [Ord. NS-2443, 2022; Ord. NS-2301, 2017; Ord. NS-2209, 2013; Ord. NS-2016, 2006; Ord. NS-1914, 2004]