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Community Facility Use in a R7-2 Zone

22-13 Use Group 3

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10

Use Group 3 consists of community facilities which:

(1) may appropriately be located in residential areas to serve educational needs or to provide other essential services for the residents; or

(2) can perform their activities more effectively in a residential environment, unaffected by objectionable influences from adjacent industrial or general service uses; and

(3) do not create significant objectionable influences in residential areas.

A. Community facilities


*College or universities, including professional schools but excluding business colleges or trade schools


*College or school dormitories or fraternity or sorority houses


** Domiciliary care facilities for adults under the jurisdiction of the New York State Board of Social Welfare which have secured certification by such agency.


Libraries, museums or non-commercial art galleries


Monasteries, convents or novitiates, without restrictions as to use for living purposes or location in relation to other uses.


Non-profit hospital staff dwellings located on the same zoning lot as the non-profit or voluntary hospital and related facilities or on a separate zoning lot that is immediately contiguous thereto or would be contiguous but for its separation by a street or a street intersection.


Nursing homes and health-related facilities as defined in the New York State Hospital Code, each of which have secured certification by the appropriate governmental agency: sanitariums; and philanthropic or non-profit institutions with sleeping accommodations provided that the number of persons employed in central office functions shall not exceed 50, and the amount of floor area used for central office purposes shall not exceed 25 percent of the total floor area or 25,000 square feet, whichever is greater, except that in R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 or R7 Districts, the amount of floor area used for central office purposes shall in no event exceed 25 percent of the total floor area; however, proprietary nursing homes, proprietary health-related facilities, proprietary domiciliary care facilities for adults and proprietary sanitariums are not permitted in R1 and R2 Districts.


Furthermore, nursing homes and health-related facilities are not permitted, except by special permit as set forth in Section 74-90, within the boundaries of any Community District designated by the City Planning Commission and Board of Estimate pursuant to Section 74-903 upon a finding that:


(1) the ratio between the number of beds for such uses in existence, under construction or approved toward construction by the appropriate federal or state governmental agency, to the population of the Community District compared to such ratio for other Community Districts shows a relative concentration of facilities covered in this Section in the affected district; or

(2) a scarcity of land for general community purposes exists; or

(3) the incidence of construction of facilities for the last three years warrants review over these facilities because they threaten to disrupt the land use balance in the community.


Schools

B. Accessory uses

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* A use in Use Group 3, marked with an asterisk, is not permitted in R1 or R2 Districts as-of-right.

** A use marked with a double asterisk is not permitted as-of-right and may only be permitted by special permit by the
City Planning Commission and Board of Estimate pursuant to Section 74-904.

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Use Group 4

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10

Use Group 4 consists primarily of community facilities which:

(1) may appropriately be located in residential areas to provide recreational, religious, health, and other essential services for the residents; or

(2) can perform their activities more effectively in a residential environment, unaffected by objectionable influences from adjacent medium and heavy industrial uses; and

(3) do not create significant objectionable influences in residential areas.

Those open uses of land which are compatible with a residential environment are also included.

A. Community facilities


Churches, rectories, or parish houses


*Clubs, except:


(a) clubs, the chief activity of which is a service predominantly carried on as a business;

(b) non-commercial outdoor swimming pool clubs; or

(c) any other non-commercial clubs with outdoor swimming pools located less than 500 feet from any lot line;

(d) any activity or use listed within the definitions of either adult physical culture establishments or physical culture or health establishments in Section 12-10


Community centers or settlement houses


Government operated health centers or independent out-of-hospital health facilities incorporated pursuant to Article 7 of the New York State Social Services Law.


Medical offices or group medical centers, including the practice of dentistry or osteopathy, limited to a location below the level of the first story ceiling, except that in multiple dwellings such uses may be located on the second floor, if:


(a) separate access to the outside is provided; or

(b) such use existed on January 1, 1948


In R1 or R2 Districts, such use is further limited to not more than 1,500 square feet of floor area or cellar space.


Monasteries, convents or novitiates used only for living purposes, provided that such use is to be part of a group of buildings accommodating church activities, schools, or other church facilities which existed on December 15, 1961 or any applicable subsequent amendment thereto, and that such use is to be located on the same zoning lot with one or more buildings in such group of buildings or on a zoning lot which is contiguous thereto or directly across the street on which such buildings face.


Non-commercial recreation centers


Non-profit hospital staff dwellings restricted to location on the same zoning lot as the non-profit or voluntary hospital and related facilities or on a separate zoning lot immediately contiguous thereto


Non-profit or voluntary hospitals and related facilities, except animal hospitals


Philanthropic or non-profit institutions without sleeping accommodations, provided that the number of persons employed in central office functions shall not exceed 50, and the amount of floor area used for central office purposes shall not exceed 25 percent of the total floor area or 25,000 square feet, whichever is greater, except that in R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 or R7 Districts the amount of floor area used for central office purposes shall in no event exceed 25 percent of the total floor area


*Proprietary hospitals and related facilities, except animal hospitals


Seminaries


*Welfare centers

B. Open uses


Agricultural uses, including greenhouses, nurseries, or truck gardens, provided that no offensive odors or dust are created, and that there is no sale of products not produced on the same zoning lot.


*Cemeteries


Golf courses


*Outdoor tennis courts or ice skating rinks, provided that all lighting shall be directed away from nearby #residential
zoning lots#.


Public parks or playgrounds or private parks


** Railroad or transit rights-of-way.

C. Accessory uses

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* A use in Use Group 4, marked with an asterisk, is not permitted in R1 or R2 Districts as-of-right.

** Use of railroad or transit air space is subject to the provisions of Section 22-41 (Air Space over Railroad or Transit Rights-of-Way or Yard).