32-133 - Use Group III – uses subject to additional conditions

LAST AMENDED
12/5/2024


For #uses# denoted with a “P” in Section 32-131 (Use Group III – general use allowances), the following provisions shall apply:

(a)   Monasteries, convents or novitiates in C8 Districts, used only for living purposes, are permitted provided that such #use#
      is to be part of a group of #buildings# accommodating house of worship activities, #schools# or other house of worship
      facilities that 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# that
      is contiguous thereto or directly across the #street# on which such #buildings# face.

(b)    #Long-term care facilities# in C1 through C7 Districts are permitted except that in the #high-risk flood zone#, as defined
       in Section 64-11 (Definitions), or within the areas set forth in APPENDIX K (Areas With Nursing Home Restrictions),
       the #development# of nursing homes and nursing home portions of continuing care retirement communities, as defined
       in the New York State Public Health Law, or the #enlargement# of an existing nursing home that increases such #floor
       area# by more than 15,000 square feet, shall not be permitted on any portion of a #zoning lot# that is located within such
       areas.

(c)   #Non-profit hospital staff dwellings# in all #Commercial Districts# shall be 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.
      However, in C1 through C7 Districts, such separate #zoning lot# may also include those that would be contiguous but
      for its separation by a #street# or a #street# intersection. Such conditions may be further modified by special permit of the
      City Planning Commission, in accordance with Section 74-132 (Non-profit hospital staff dwelling).

(d)    Ambulatory diagnostic or treatment health care facilities in all #Commercial Districts# shall be limited to public, private,
       for-profit or not-for-profit medical, health and mental health care facilities licensed by the State of New York, or a facility
       in which patients are diagnosed or treated by health care professionals, licensed by the State of New York or by persons
       under the supervision of such licensee for medical, health or mental health conditions, and where such patients are
       ambulatory rather than admitted. Such facilities shall not include the practice of veterinary medicine or ophthalmic
       dispensing.

(e)   Non-commercial clubs as classified in this Use Group, in all #Commercial Districts#, shall not include:

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

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

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