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Public or Private School

Definition

  • Public School means a public school as defined by state law that has a curriculum for kindergarten, elementary, or secondary education
  • Private School means a school that a child may attend and thereby be exempt from state law requirements of compulsory attendance at a public school, and that exists apart from the child's home

District Permitted

By right in A(A), office, retail, CS, central area, mixed use, and multiple commercial districts. By SUP only in single family, duplex, townhouse, CH, multifamily, MH(A), and industrial districts. RAR required in AW, office, retail, CS, mixed use, and multiple commercial districts

Required Off-Street Parking

  • One and one-half spaces for each kindergarten/ elementary school classroom
  • Three and one-half spaces for each junior high/middle school classroom; and
  • Nine and one-half spaces for each senior high school classroom

Handicapped Parking

Must be provided if more than ten off-street parking spaces are required for this use.

Total number of required off-street parking spaces

Minimum number of handicapped spaces required

1 - 50

1

51 - 100

2

101 - 300

3

301 - 500

5

over 500

1% of Total



Required Off-Street Loading


Square feet of floor area in structure

Total required spaces or berths

0 to 50,000

None

 50,000 to 150,000

1

Each additional 100,000 or fraction thereof

1 additional

Additional Provisions

  • This use does not include business, commercial, trade, or craft schools
  • This use must comply with all applicable licensing requirements
  • If this use is nonconforming, the board of adjustment shall not establish a termination date for the use under Section 51A-4.704(a)(1) unless the owners of more than 50 percent of the land within 200 feet of the lot containing the school or a lot used by an entity affiliated with the school that is within 200 feet of the lot containing the school file a written petition with the board requesting that a termination date be established. In computing the percentage of land area under this subparagraph, the area of public rights-of-way and city-owned property is excluded. The area of the lots used or owned by the school or by an entity affiliated with the school is also excluded from the computation
  • This use, if nonconforming, may expand its total floor area by up to ten percent or 2,000 square feet, whichever is less, without obtaining an SUP
  • This use is exempt from payment of SUP application fees.

 


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