HomeMy WebLinkAboutMARTIN LUTHER HOME ADOLESCENT FACILITY - GROUP HOME REVIEW - 24-87A - - PROJECT NARRATIVE2629 Redwing Rd., Suite 130, Fort Collins, C080526,(303) 223-1751 L1
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Martin Luther Homes, Inc., a non-profit Christian agency currently
operates a group home for four developmentally disabled adolescents aged
twelve to sixteen years at 2100 Eastwood Drive, Fort Collins. The objective
of the program is to provide these children a normalized living environment
while teaching independent living skills. Martin Luther Home is proposing
an increase of one resident for this group home.
The facility will be licensed through the Colorado Division of
Developmental Disabilities and the Colorado Department of Health as a
Specialized Intensive Development Home. It will meet all requirements of
these licensing authorities, e.g., fire safety, sanitation,environmental and
program requirements, as it has in the past.
The ranch style home has three bedrooms, two baths and a family room in
addition to the usual living, kitchen and dining areas on the main floor. .
The finished lower level currently contains a recreation room, an office and
a bath. The exisiting office will become a bedroom for the fifth resident
should this project be accepted. The facility will be staffed in shifts
with two staff people available during the day and one staff awake in the house
at night. These staff members will be supervised by a House Manager and the
Martin Luther Home Administrator.
Society Office, P.O. Box 607, Beatrice, NE 68310 - (402) 223-4066
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ZONING, ANNEXATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LAND
29-511. Where access to preschool nurseries is
provided by other than local streets, an off-street
vehicular bay or driveway shall be provided for
the purpose of loading and unloading children.
There shall be an indoor floor space reserved for
school purposes of forty (40) square feet per child.
Such indoor floor space must be approved by the
Building Permits and Inspections Administrator.
(Code 1972, § 118-82(D))
Sec. 29.474. Small animal veterinary clinic and
hospital regulations.
(a) All facilities of a small animal veterinary
clinic or a small animal veterinary hospital, in-
cluding all treatment rooms, cages, pens, kennels
and exercise runs, shall be maintained within a
completely enclosed, soundproof building.
(b) All such veterinary clinics and hospitals shall
be designed and constructed in a manner that
shall eliminate any emission of odor offensive to
persons in the area of such clinics or hospitals.
(c) All such veterinary clinics and hospitals shall
be designed and constructed in a manner that
shall reduce the sound coming from any such clinic
or hospital to the level of sixty-five (65) decibels
at any given adjacent property line.
(d) No such veterinary clinic or hospital shall
board any animal for any length of time except
where such boarding is necessary to provide sur-
gical or other medical care to the animals.
(Code 1972, § 118-820)
Sec. 29-475. Group home regulations; special
review.
(a) Group homes shall conform to the lot area
and separation requirements as specified in the
following table:
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Maximum
number of
Additional
residents,
lot area
excluding
for each
supervisors,
additional
for minimum
resident
Zone lot size
(square feet)
§ 29-475
Minimum
separation
Maximum
requirement
permissible
between
residents,
any other
excluding
group home
supervisors
(feet)
R-E, RF 3 2,000 8 1,500
R-1_ 3 _ 1,500 _8 1,500
R-M 6 750 15 1,000
R-H 6 500 20 700
B-G 6 500 20 700
(b) With respect to group homes which require
special review, the following regulations shall apply:
(1) Before any group home shall be approved
in the R-E, R-F, or R-L zone (or any other
zone with permitted uses referenced to the
R-E, R-F, or R-L zone), the Planning and
Zoning Board shall first conduct a special
review hearing for the purpose of approv-
ing, denying, or approving with conditions
the application for a group home use in
such zone. If approved, the board shall, with
such approval, establish the type of group
home permitted and the maximum num-
ber of residents allowed in such group home.
Said hearing shall be open to the public,
and the decision of the Planning and Zon-
ing Board may be appealed to the City Coun-
cil pursuant to the provisions of § 2-46 et
seq.
(2) The issues for consideration by the Plan-
ning and Zoning Board at the special re-
view hearing shall include an analysis of
the following:
a. Building height;
b. Building setbacks;
c. Building coverage of the lot;
d. External signage;
e. Traffic and parking;
f. Compatibility of architectural design
with the character of the surrounding
neighborhood;
g. Whether the types of treatment activi-
ties or the rendering of services pro-
posed to be conducted upon the prem-
ises is in a manner substantially incon-
sistent with the activities otherwise
permitted in the zoning district; and
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h. Such other requirements for group homes
as are established in this Chapter.
(c) A group home may be located without con-
sideration to the minimum separation requirements
as established in (a) of this Section if the group
home is separated from other group homes within
the area of the aforesaid minimum separation
requirement by a substantial natural or man-made
physical barrier, including, but not limited to, an
arterial street, a state or federal highway, rail-
road tracks, river, or commercial/business district.
Such reduction in the separation requirement shall
be allowed only after the Planning and Zoning
Board has conducted a special review hearing to
determine that the barrier and resulting separa-
tion distance are adequate to protect the city from
the detrimental impact of an excessive concentra-
tion of group homes in any one vicinity.
(d) No permanent certificate of occupancy will
be issued by the city for a group home until the
person applying for the group home has submit-
ted a valid license, or other appropri—te authori-
zation, or copy thereof, from a governmental agency
having jurisdiction.
(e) If active and continuous operations are not
carried on in a group home which was approved
pursuant to the special review provisions contained
in this Section for a period of twelve (12) consecu-
tive months, the group home use shall be consid-
ered to have been abandoned. The group home
use can be reinstated only after obtaining approval
from the Planning and Zoning Board as outlined
in the special review provisions of this Section.
(fl A notice of any group home permit granted
by the city, and any conditions imposed upon such
group home, shall be duly recorded by the city
with the county Clerk and Recorder, showing the
description of the property upon which such group
home is permitted.
(Code 1972, § 118-82(F); Ord. No. 183, 1987, § 4,
12-1-87)
Sec. 29-476. Supplementary building height
regulations.
(a) No building or structure shall exceed a max-
imum height of forty (40) feet above grade. This
limitation may be varied according to review cri-
teria for buildings or structures located in a Planned
Unit Development plan as defined, processed and
approved according to § 29-526.
(b) All dwellings shall be constructed with at
least seventy-five (75) percent of the roof surface
higher than seven (7) feet from grade.
(c) It shall be unlawful to construct, build or
establish any building, trees, smokestack, chim-
ney, flagpole, wire, tower or other structure or
appurtenance thereto which may constitute a haz-
ard or obstruction to the safe navigation, landing
and takeoff of aircraft at a publicly used airport.
(d) No detached accessory building may exceed
seven (7) feet in height unless such building com-
plies with all of the yard setbacks for the district
in which such building is located.
(Code 1972, § 118-82(C))
Secs. 29477-29490. Reserved.
Subdivision D. Off -Street Parking
and Vehicular Uses*
Sec. 29491. Definitions.
The following words,.terms and phrases, when
used in this Subdivision, shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in this Section:
Landscaping shall refer to any combination of
living plants such as trees, shrubs, plants, vege-
tative ground cover and turf grasses, and may
include natural nonliving elements such as rock,
stone and bark, as well as structural features,
including but not limited to walks, fences, bench-
es, works of art, reflective pools and fountains.
Off-street parking area or vehicular use area
shall refer to all off-street areas and spaces de-
signed, used, required or intended to be used for
the parking, storage, maintenance, service, repair,
display or operation of motor vehicles, including
driveways or accessways in and to such areas, but
not including public streets and rights -of -way.
(Code 1972, § 118-81(D))
Cross reference —Definitions and rules of construction gen-
erally, § 1-2.
*Cross references —Parking Commission, § 2-321 et seq.;
vehicles and traffic. Ch. 28.
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