No building, structure, or land shall be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected, structurally altered, or enlarged except for one or more of the uses herein cited and subject to the conditions stated herein:

Accessory structures and uses to those permitted herein.

Ambulance services.

Apothecaries, drugstores.

Artificial limb and brace, therapeutic establishments.

Book shops.

Doctors' and nurses' quarters.

Farmers markets.

Farming and other agricultural uses.

Federal, state, county, or city owned or operated buildings and uses.

Florist shops.

General and private hospitals.

General office uses and office buildings.

Gift shops.

Medical educational institutions, including dormitories.

Medical or dental clinics.

Medical research, experimental and testing laboratories.

Medical, surgical and dental supply houses.

Nursing homes, rest homes, and convalescent homes.

Optical firms.

Permitted uses as special exceptions as defined and regulated by subsection 92.5.3 hereof.

Retail sales and consumer service establishments accessory to any permitted use, provided that such commercial use shall not occupy more than 15 percent of the total floor area of the building in which such use is located.

(Ord. No. 09-1053, § 1, 12-17-2009; Ord. No. 15-406, § 2, 7-23-2015)

The following yard and density requirements shall be observed:

60.2.1. Minimum lot area: 10,000 sq. ft.

60.2.2. Minimum required depth of front yard:

From major arterials (see section 73.15): Ten feet

From other streets: None

60.2.3. Minimum side yard: None, except that buildings not developed to the side lot line shall have a side yard of not less than ten feet on any side.

60.2.4. Minimum rear yard: None

60.2.5. Street access and frontage: Each lot shall have a minimum frontage of 50 feet on a public road; provided, however, the planning commission may approve a lesser frontage to a minimum of 20 feet for lots located on culs-de-sac or on street curves or having other extraordinary characteristics if the lot width at the building line measures at least 50 feet.

(Ord. No. 18-900, §§ 1, 2, 11-15-2018)

60.3.1. The required front yard of all developed parcels shall be landscaped and maintained in a manner as to be neat in appearance when viewed from any street.

60.3.2. Exterior storage of materials shall be contained by fencing in such a manner as to be neat in appearance when viewed from any street. No exterior storage or display of materials, whether for sale or not, is permitted in the required front yard.

Signs shall be permitted in accordance with the provisions of article 72—Sign control regulations.

(Ord. No. 21-46, § 1(Exh. A, § B.2.), 2-25-2021)

Except as provided for herein all off-street parking and loading requirements shall be provided as set forth in article 70 hereof.

60.5.1. Parking areas are not permitted in the required front yard.

60.5.2. Driveways and vehicular access ways, except as necessary to cross a required front yard, are not permitted in a required front yard.

60.5.3. Lighting of off-street parking and vehicular use areas is required in accordance with section 71.6, PVA lighting requirements.

Required bicycle parking spaces and facilities shall be provided as set forth in article 76 hereof.

(Ord. No. 99-1020, § 12, 1-13-2000; Ord. No. 09-430, § 25, 7-9-2009; Ord. No. 10-507, § 2, 8-26-2010)

Six-foot wide sidewalks shall be required along the streets of parcels to be developed. Sidewalks shall be so designed as to tie to existing sidewalks within the area.

All power, communication, and other wiring hereafter installed in a medical district shall be placed underground.

60.8.1. Prior to the issuance of any building permit, any property owner desiring to subdivide or develop land within a medical district, as shown on the official Zoning Maps of the City of Huntsville, Alabama, must submit to the manager of planning for approval a development plan for each parcel or tract of land proposed to be developed. Such development plan shall have shown thereon the following information:

(1)

The specific location of the tract to be developed or subdivided within said district and all land and development lying within 500 feet of the tract or parcel of land to be developed.

(2)

Names and addresses of all landowners whose property adjoins said parcel or tract, as shown in the tax assessor's records of Madison County, Alabama.

(3)

The location of all buildings proposed to be constructed within the tract.

(4)

Existing and proposed accessways and roads, public and private.

(5)

A generalized drainage plan showing existing and proposed drainage.

(6)

Location of all existing and proposed public utilities as the same relates to the development of the property.

(7)

Location of all off-street parking spaces and loading facilities.

(8)

Location of proposed screen planting, walls, and garbage storage facilities.

(9)

Location of all existing and proposed easements.

(10)

Location of all sidewalks.

60.8.2. The manager of planning shall approve said development plan for a specified medical district improvement, upon finding that the same complies with these regulations. All subsequent development on said tract or parcel shall be approved without resubmission in all cases where the proposed improvements substantially conform to the approved development plan.