§ 9-28.100. Hospital-Medical (HM) Overlay District

A.

Limits of zone. The boundaries of the Hospital-Medical Overlay District shall be defined by the City's Official Zoning Map (Refer to SVMC Section 9-20.030).

B.

Purpose. The purpose of the Hospital-Medical Overlay District is to promote a medical campus setting by creating specific development standards for hospital and medical uses within the District's boundaries. This includes additional sign standards to convey directional information for locating the availability of routine and urgent medical services within the Simi Valley Hospital vicinity, thus promoting full-service hospital facilities and related medical services within the City of Simi Valley. In addition, the Hospital-Medical Overlay District provides standards for expanded parking locations, storage container setbacks, and buffering. The standards account for existing site conditions and restraints, as well as to facilitate future development potential.

C.

Allowed land uses and permit requirements/permitted uses. Any land use normally allowed in the primary zoning district is allowed within the Hospital-Medical Overlay District subject to the land use permit requirements of the primary district.

D.

Development standards. All land uses in the Hospital-Medical Overlay District must comply with all applicable provisions of this Development Code and the following provisions:

1.

Permanent signage. Permanent signage must comply with SVMC Section 9-37.060, with the following exceptions:

a.

For each parcel with a Planned Development or Conditional Use Permit, the maximum Monument Sign height is 10 feet and the maximum Monument Sign area is 40 square feet.

b.

The maximum number of Monument Signs for each parcel with a Planned Development or Conditional Use Permit is one per vehicular driveway from a street. Sign locations must be outside of traffic line-of-sight areas.

c.

In addition to the Ancillary Signs permitted in SVMC Section 9-37.060.B (Table 3-10), the main Hospital property (located at the northwest corner of Sycamore Drive and Jones Way) is permitted up to six additional Ancillary Signs with a maximum sign height of 7'-6" and a maximum sign area of 40 square feet each. Each other parcel with a Planned Development or Conditional Use Permit is permitted three additional Ancillary Signs with a maximum sign height of 7'-6" and a maximum sign area of 40 square feet each. Sign locations must be outside of traffic line-of-sight areas.

2.

Temporary signage:

a.

Temporary blade-type signs up to 12 square feet in area are allowed to be displayed on 25 percent of the parking lot light poles within the main hospital parking lot. No more than two signs per light pole are allowed. Signs must have horizontal support members. Signs must not be located in or above the public right-of-way, be installed above the top of the light pole, or strung between light poles, vehicles, or landscaping. Sign display is limited to a maximum of four, 60-day periods per calendar year and subject to approval of a Temporary Sign Permit.

b.

Two temporary banners up to 300 square feet each in sign area are allowed to be displayed on the main hospital building at 2975 Sycamore Drive. The location on the building and method of installation for each temporary banner is at the discretion of the Director of Environmental Services based upon the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. This Subsection 9-28.100.D.2.b shall automatically expire on December 31, 2015, unless extended by the City Council.

3.

Electronic Changeable Copy Signs. The main Hospital is permitted one electronic changeable copy sign, with no animated motion, not to exceed 12 square feet in size. The sign must be located immediately adjacent to the main hospital emergency room entrance and must not be visible from any street.

4.

Location of parking. If the parcel(s) of the proposed use and the parking lot are under the same ownership, required and surplus off-street parking is permitted to be located on a parcel(s) contiguous to, or across a street from, the use to be served.

5.

Storage containers and screen walls within setback areas. Storage containers used primarily for storage of emergency supplies are permitted within the main Hospital service area as located within the 20-foot setback area on the south side of Avenida Simi, provided the containers are fully screened from Avenida Simi by a masonry wall. Decorative masonry screen walls not exceeding 10 feet in height are permitted within the setback area along the south side of Avenida Simi adjacent to the Hospital service area and memorial garden.

6.

Buffer requirements. The buffer requirement between residential-zoned properties and commercial-zoned Overlay District properties north of Avenida Simi is permitted to consist of a six-foot high wrought-iron/tubular-steel fence in lieu of the six-foot high masonry wall requirement, per Section 9-33.030.H, along the northern property line where there is a slope at least 10 feet higher than the adjacent building pad elevation. In lieu of Section 9-33.030.H.2, buffer trees may consist of one 24-inch box tree for each 150 square feet of required landscape buffer area.

(§ 3 (Exh. B), Ord. No. 1175, eff. September 8, 2011 and § 3 (Exh. A, Ord. No. 1237, eff. March 26, 2015)