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Casper City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 17

60 - HM HOSPITAL-MEDICAL

17.60.010 - Purpose.

The purpose of the HM district is to establish and maintain a district used for hospital, medical, and medical support services, and other compatible uses.

(Ord. 5-91 (part), 1991)

17.60.020 - Permitted uses.

In the HM district, no building, structure, or land use shall be permitted or used except for the following:

1.

Apartments located within a business structure;

2.

Bed and breakfast;

3.

Bed and breakfast homestay;

4.

Bed and breakfast inn;

5.

Mortuaries;

6.

Churches;

7.

Day care, adult;

8.

Child care center;

9.

Family child care center - zoning review;

10.

Family child care home;

11.

Family child care home - zoning review;

12.

Heliports;

13.

Hospitals;

14.

Hotels, motels, boarding/rooming houses;

15.

Group homes;

16.

Medical and dental supplies, retail;

17.

Nursing homes and sanitariums;

18.

Offices, general and professional;

19.

Parking garages;

20.

Parks, playgrounds, historical sites, golf courses, and other similar recreational facilities;

21.

Personal service shops;

22.

Residential dwellings:

a.

Single-family dwelling units,

b.

Two-family dwelling units,

c.

Multifamily dwelling units up to and including eight stories or seventy-five feet in height, whichever is less,

d.

Townhouses,

e.

Condominiums for both residential and office use;

23.

Restaurants, cafes, coffee shops;

24.

Sundry shops and stores;

25.

Vocational centers, medical and professional institutions;

26.

Other uses compatible with the intent of this district as determined by the commission, with the exception of gaming/gambling uses as defined in this title;

27.

Neighborhood assembly uses;

28.

Regional assembly uses;

29.

Branch community facilities;

30.

Grocery store;

31.

Neighborhood grocery.

(Ord. 27-01 § 18, 2001: Ord. 20-94 § 3 (part), 1994; Ord. 5-91 (part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 12-11, § 1(B), (C), 3-21-2011; Ord. No. 16-11, §§ 2(D), 3(B), 4(A), 14, 4-19-2011)

17.60.030 - Conditional uses.

The following are conditional uses in an HM district:

A.

Developments exceeding twenty residential units per acre;

B.

Parking lots;

C.

Public utility and public service installations and facilities, excluding business offices and repair and storage facilities;

D.

Other compatible uses as determined by the commission, with the exception of gaming/gambling uses as defined herein.

(Ord. 26-99 § 1 (part), 1999; Ord. 15-93 (part), 1993; Ord. 5-91 (part), 1991)

17.60.040 - Minimum standards.

A.

Lot Area. For all uses, there shall be a minimum lot size of four thousand square feet except for provided below:

1.

Multifamily dwellings, condominiums, and townhouses of three or more units shall have a minimum of one thousand five hundred square feet per dwelling unit.

B.

Lot Width.

1.

For all uses except townhouses, forty feet;

2.

For townhouses, twenty feet per individual townhouse unit.

C.

Yard Requirements.

1.

Front yard setback, fifteen feet with alley, or eighteen feet without alley;

2.

Rear yard setback, ten feet;

3.

Side yard setback, five feet;

4.

Business or commercial uses, front and rear yard, fifteen feet, side yard five feet from property line;

5.

Townhouses, zero lot line between adjoining townhouse units; five-foot side yard for each end unit;

6.

The front yards of a corner or a through lot shall not be less than fifteen feet.

D.

Maximum Density. Maximum residential density shall be twenty units per acre.

E.

Height Limitations. Maximum height eight stories or seventy-five feet, whichever is less.

F.

Buffering. For multifamily developments, which adjoin single-family residential properties, one of the six buffering alternatives expressed in Appendix C of this title shall be developed to reduce noise and increase visual privacy.

(Ord. 28-08 § 20, 2008; Ord. 26-99 § 1 (part), 1999; Ord. 14-98 § 15, 1998; Ord. 5-91 (part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 9-11, § 1, 3-1-2011)