§ 59-8250 — Civic use unit classifications

§ 59-8250. - Civic use unit classifications.

Civic use unit classifications include utility, educational, recreational, cultural, medical, protective, governmental and other uses that are strongly vested with public or social importance. 8250.1. Artistic Graphics. Visual depictions that have historical, architectural or cultural significance for the State of Oklahoma, the City, or the specific area or neighborhood in which they are located. Such depictions may include a sponsor's identification area within the depictions, provided such area shall not exceed ten percent of the total size of the depiction. Notwithstanding the sponsor's identification area, artistic graphics shall not be considered non-accessory signs within the meaning of this chapter or Chapter 3 of the City Code. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, murals, attached paintings, mosaics, bas reliefs, wall paintings, frescoes or other similar visual depictions with historical, architectural or cultural significance for the State of Oklahoma, the City or the specific area or neighborhood in which they are located. 8250.2. Community Recreation: General. Recreational, social or multi-purpose open or enclosed uses and accessory buildings, which have no fixed seats and where occupancy is limited to 500 persons. Typical uses include golf courses, clubhouses, swim centers, tennis centers, playgrounds, playfields, marinas, boat docks, country clubs and public parks. Any use which has outdoor lights for illuminating nighttime activities shall be included in this use unit. 8250.3. Community Recreation: Property Owners Association. Private recreational, social and multi-purpose uses within a subdivision that are operated and maintained by a property owners association for the benefit and enjoyment of its members. These uses are planned as an integral part of the development. The areas are designated on the subdivision plat as "common areas," and rules for their operation and maintenance are included in the declaration of covenants and restrictions of the subdivision and the bylaws of the property owners association. Typical uses include private clubhouses, tennis courts, playgrounds and swimming pools, both illuminated and non-illuminated. 8250.4. Community Recreation: Restricted. Recreational, social and multi-purpose uses that operate during daylight hours, generally serve the surrounding neighborhood, and are available for public use. Typical uses include non-illuminated public swimming pools, basketball courts, tennis courts, playgrounds, ball fields and playfields (non-illuminated), neighborhood recreation centers, and neighborhood public parks and open space. 8250.5. Cultural Exhibits. Museum-like preservation and exhibition of objects of artistic, cultural and/or scientific interest, and gallery exhibition of works of art for study and pleasure. Typical uses include aquariums, art galleries, museums, planetariums and observatories. 8250.6. Domestic Violence Shelters. Residential institutions where domestic violence victims and their families can be physically secure from their abuser. In addition to shelter and meals, the facility may also provide counseling and other types of support services. 8250.7. Emergency Shelters and Feeding Sites. Charitable institutions providing transient sleeping accommodations on a nightly basis and/or meals directly to the needy. 8250.8. Forced Detention or Correction Facilities. Facilities in which persons accused or convicted of offenses are held in custody and confined, with electronic surveillance or an equivalent thereto. Typical uses include prisons, jails, work release facilities, pre-release centers and halfway houses for the correctional system. 8250.9. Heavy Public Protection and Utility. Public services and utilities that may have a substantial impact due to attendant hazards, nuisance characteristics, traffic generation characteristics, or maintenance and operational characteristics. Typical uses include sewage disposal facilities, water treatment plants, power generation facilities, water storage reservoirs, refuse transfer stations, and solid waste disposal facilities, excluding sanitary landfills. 8250.10. High Impact Institutional. Public, quasi-public or private activities of a medical or educational nature which, due to their area requirements, traffic generation, light or noise generation, or the nature of intended activities, have the potential for major impact on surrounding land uses. Typical uses include hospitals, colleges, universities and military installations. 8250.11. Library Services and Community Centers. Uses that directly serve a residential neighborhood or a cluster of neighborhoods, and provide a gathering and collecting site for residents to meet, read, study and partake of book collections, manuscripts, lessons and other leisure activities or classes. 8250.12. Light Public Protection and Utility: General. Public services involving direct citizen contact, as well as incidental storage and maintenance of necessary equipment or vehicles, including public protection or essential utility services. Said services may have technical and locational requirements necessitating proximity to the area served, but should have a minor impact on surrounding uses. Typical uses include ambulance service, fire protection facilities, police substations, public works facilities, and civil defense shelters and facilities. 8250.13 Light Public Protection and Utility: Restricted. Public services needing locations near the area to be served, but not requiring incidental storage of equipment of vehicles. Those uses have minimal land needs and impact upon surrounding land uses. Typical uses include directional, warning, safety, historical, and informational signs, elevated water tanks, water or sewage pumping stations, storm water control facilities, bus and transit stops, utility facilities, including electric substation, and garbage collection facilities, excluding refuse transfer stations. 8250.14. Low Impact Institutional: Neighborhood-Related. Public, quasi-public or private activities of an educational or religious nature, which may have minor impact on surrounding uses and are occupied on an intermittent basis. Such uses are necessary to serve common functions within a residential area, but are not designed to provide lodging. Typical uses include elementary schools, kindergartens and churches. 8250.15. Moderate Impact Institutional. Public and private institutional activities which may have significant impact on surrounding uses. Typical uses include high schools, middle schools and vocational schools. 8250.16. Murals. Visual depictions and/or works of art including mosaics, painting or graphic art technique applied, painted, implanted or placed directly onto the exterior of any wall of a building. Such depictions shall not contain words, logos, emblems, trademarks or other similar devices which identify or advertise any product, service or business, however, such depictions may include a signature or sponsor's identification area within the depiction so long as such area does not exceed ten percent of the total size of the depiction or two and one-half percent of the surface area of the wall onto which it is attached or painted whichever is less. "Building" for purposes of this Paragraph only, shall mean any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattel or movable property of any kind. 8250.17. Residential Facilities for Dependent and Neglected Children. Supervised residential institutions for children who cannot reside in their natural homes for various reasons, such as the absence of parents or the dysfunctional characteristics of the households. Typical uses include homes for orphans, abandoned children or runaways. 8250.18. Residential Facilities for Drug or Alcohol Treatment Centers. Supervised residential facilities for detoxification, as well as treatment and counseling for persons who have undergone detoxification. The residents are undergoing detoxification, or are not at this facility under their own volition and are not free to discharge themselves. 8250.19. Transitional Mental Health Residential Facilities. Supervised places of residence with treatment and counseling for stabilized mental health clients before reentering the community. Clients are not at the facility under their own volition and are not free to discharge themselves, but are the responsibility of, and under the control of, the State mental health system or a similar authority.

(Ord. No. 23578, § 1, 4-8-08)