The purpose of the public zone is to provide areas for the creation, protection, and enhancement of public uses on publicly owned lands which serve community or governmental functions, and to provide restrictions to minimize the effect of such uses on surrounding uses. This district is intended to allow the public service providers and governmental agencies the assurance that those publicly owned sites identified through long range and capital improvement planning will be available in the future when they are needed.

(Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) § 37(part), 1996).

Any site with a lot area exceeding forty thousand square feet shall submit for approval long range development plans prior to the issuance of a building permit for new construction within the district. The planning department shall study each request to establish a new use and may attach reasonable stipulations to the approval to assure that any adverse impacts of the public use upon adjoining land uses will be mitigated. These stipulations may encompass, but may not necessarily be limited to, landscaping, berming, fencing, screening, off-street parking, external lighting, access points, and traffic circulation.

(Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) § 37(part), 1996).

The following uses are permitted outright in the P zone:

A.

Public schools;

B.

Public parks;

C.

Public utilities including wells, water storage tanks, and sanitary sewer pump stations;

D.

Governmental offices;

E.

Marinas;

F.

Museums;

G.

Police and fire stations;

H.

Expansion of an existing public use.

(Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) § 37(part), 1996).

The following are conditional uses in the P zone:

A.

Cemeteries;

B.

Public housing and group residences;

C.

Governmental shops and maintenance facilities and yards;

D.

Caretaker dwellings;

E.

Other uses the board of adjustment judges to be no more detrimental to the adjacent properties than, and of the same type and character as, those uses permitted outright.

(Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) § 37(part), 1996).

A.

The minimum area shall be that necessary for the intended use(s) and respective minimum yard depths.

B.

Minimum yard requirements shall be those of the adjacent zoning district unless otherwise stipulated by the fire chief of the respective fire district or the county fire marshal or designee.

C.

The maximum building height shall be thirty-five feet.

(Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) § 37(part), 1996).

Accessory uses in the P zone shall be those uses and structures customarily incidental to a principal use permitted outright.

(Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) § 37(part), 1996).