This county-initiated amendment to Article III of the Land Development Code (LDC) is to separate the uses presently allowed in Sec. 3-40, Private Services (PS-3) zoning district and creating a new Private Services (P-6) zoning district.
The PS-3 zoning district, as presently adopted, permits various uses that include hospitals and related medical office and medical facilities; group homes (privately operated and DHRS licensed), which include detention centers, drug abuse and alcohol treatment facilities, intermediate care facilities (mentally retarded); and, institutions for the insane (DHRS licensed). The mix of allowable uses in PS-3 district has raised concern with applications attempting to rezone to PS-3.
The proposed change would maintain the hospital and related medical office and medical facilities uses in the newly constituted PS-3 district, while creating a new PS-6 zoning district which would include the group homes, detention centers, drug and alcohol treatment facilities, intermediate care facilities and institutions for the insane. The new PS-6 zoning district would be allowed in the same land use categories as the present PS-3 zoning district. All development standards presently included in the existing PS-3 zoning district would be continued in both the newly constituted PS-3 district and the new PS-6 district.
The proposed change would apply only to those properties applying for rezoning to either PS-3 or the new PS-6 zoning districts after the adoption date of the proposed changes. Those parcels which area presently zoned PS-3 would maintain the same allowable uses as presently allowed.
Planning Commission voted 7-0 to recommend new PS-6 and PS-7 districts while maintaining the PS-3 designation for all parcel presently zoned PS-3.