To provide areas in appropriate locations where residential health care facilities with various support services for residents may be established, maintained and protected. The regulations of this district are designed to promote and encourage longer term health care facilities.

A site plan is required and a site plan shall be submitted for all permitted and conditional uses.(Consult KCC 18-4)

1.

Residential facilities for persons with a disability.

2.

Assisted living facilities.

3.

Nursing care facilities.

4.

Accessory uses and buildings considered incidental and customary to a permitted use, subject to the provisions of KCC 17-31-2.

There are no conditional uses.

1.

Reasonable accommodations that may be necessary for persons with disabilities to have an equal opportunity to use and enjoy dwellings shall be determined through an interactive process resulting in a development agreement. The rezone to Health Care District will be approved if a development agreement is approved by the developer and City Council. The development agreement shall be in effect before the zone is effective and the zone shall be voided if the provider of the residential health care facility fails to comply with the development agreement.

2.

Accommodations for persons with disabilities shall be granted if the requested accommodations are found to be:

a.

Necessary to afford persons or groups of persons with disabilities, as defined by the Fair Housing Act, an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling; and

b.

Reasonable. A requested accommodation is reasonable if it will not:

i.

Impose an undue financial or administrative burden on a local government; or

ii.

Create a fundamental alteration in the land use and zoning scheme.

1.

No building shall exceed thirty feet (30') in height, except as pursuant to KCC 17-25-2.

2.

No building shall be less than ten feet (10') in height.

There are no lot size or yard requirements except that where a lot in the Health Care District abuts a residential district, the yard abutting the residential district shall be at least twenty feet (20'). An existing building may have the twenty feet (20') yard requirement reduced to the yard requirement of the abutting residential zone if the reduced yard contains only landscaping.