City-County Planning Department

Supplementary Requirements

7.37 Retirement Centers and Life Care Centers

When allowed, retirement centers and life care communities shall be subject to the following additional requirements:

Interpretation: Residential suites or assisted living units are considered to be rooms or suites with bathrooms but without cooking facilities designed for habitation by 1 or 2 individuals in a project designated for senior housing. They shall be permitted to be constructed at the same density as the base density for dwelling units. In some situations described in this Section, the density of these units may be increased to twice the base density.
1. The dwelling unit density shall not exceed the dwelling unit density of the underlying zoning district [for the purposes of this section, called the "base density" except in the following circumstances:
A. If the retirement center or life care community has the following on-site common use facilities: dining, recreation, health care, and a convalescent center; the density for any associated multifamily units shall not exceed 2 times the allowed multifamily base density for the zone.
B. If the retirement center or life care community has the following on-site common use facilities: dining, recreation, health care, a convalescent center, and multifamily units; the density for any associated single family detached units shall not exceed 1.5 times the allowed multifamily base density of the zone.
2. Convalescent care portions of the facility shall meet convalescent center standards found in Section 7, labeled "Hospital and Convalescent Centers".
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