§ 106.42.240. Substance Abuse Treatment Clinics

This Section establishes standards for substance abuse treatment clinics, where allowed by Article 2 (Zoning Districts and Allowable Land Uses).

A.

Limitation on use. A substance abuse treatment clinic is not and shall not be approved as an accessory use to any other use permitted by this Zoning Code.

B.

Location requirements. No substance abuse treatment clinic shall be located:

1.

Immediately adjacent to any residentially zoned property; or

2.

Within 1,000 feet of another substance abuse treatment clinic, elementary school, middle school, high school, public library, or public park; or

3.

Within 1,000 feet of a youth-oriented establishment characterized by either or both of the following:

a.

The establishment advertises in a manner that identifies the establishment as catering to or providing services primarily intended for minors; or

b.

The individuals who regularly patronize, congregate or assemble at the establishment are predominantly minors.

The distance between a substance abuse treatment clinic, and the uses and zones described above, shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the closest exterior wall of the building or structure, or a portion of the building or structure, in which the substance abuse treatment clinic is located, to the boundary of the use or zone described above.

C.

Cessation of use. If a permitted substance abuse treatment clinic ceases operations for a period of six consecutive months, the Use Permit shall lapse and shall automatically be deemed null and void, unless the Use Permit provides otherwise.