The “S – I” College and Institutional District is established for the purpose of assuring that the growth and expansion of the schools and other major public institutions within the City of Hillsboro may be continued in a planned, harmonious, efficient, and orderly manner, with provision for the convenience, safety, health, and general welfare of the public.
In the “S – I” District, no building or land shall be used, and no building or structure shall be erected, altered, or enlarged, which is arranged, intended, or designed for other than one of the uses listed in this article.
1. Single-family dwellings.
2. Residential design manufactured housing.
3. Colleges and universities of higher learning, including dormitory accommodations.
4. Vocational-technical schools.
5. Public and private elementary and secondary schools.
6. Hospitals.
7. Libraries
8. Nursing homes.
9. Churches and similar places of worship.
10. Child Care, Adult Care.
11. Museums.
12. Home Occupations.
13. Group Homes.
14. Uses and structures incidental to the principal use including parking lots, dormitories, dining halls and kitchens, supply stores operated by the principal use, fraternities and sororities, activities and structures maintained for educational or research purposes, and other similar uses customarily incidental to the operation of the principal permitted use.
Mobile structures may be utilized as accessory buildings in the “S – I” District, however, such mobile structures shall not be arranged, designed, intended or used as a dwelling unit, and shall not be utilized on a lot which contains a structure to be used as a residence. Mobile structures shall be on a permanent foundation unless otherwise permitted by the City Governing Body
15. The following uses may be allowed by conditional use permit when submitted, reviewed, and approved by the Planning Commission and Governing Body and subject to conditions as the Governing Body may impose:
a. Any public building erected or land used by a department of the City, County, State, or Federal Government.
b. Telephone exchange, electric substations and regulator stations, or other public utilities.
c. Commercial radio, television, navigation, or military control stations, transmitters, or towers.
In the “S – I” College and Institutional District, except for single-family residential uses, no building, structure, sign, parking lot, or other improvement shall be erected, modified, or placed in use, nor shall a building permit be issued, unless such improvement is in accordance with a development master plan for the entire site. Such development master plan shall include as a minimum:
1. General topographic conditions and method of drainage, including notation of any areas of defined flood plain coverage.
2. A site utilization concept showing:
a. Locations and sizes of buildings, parking lots, and interior drives.
b. Locations, sizes, and dimensions of game courts, ball fields, walkways, and signs.
c. Routing and sizes of utility services including required easements and locations of any transformer stations or other aboveground appurtenances.
d. Locations and sizes of fences and walls.
e. Type, intensity, and nature of landscaping, including boundary screening where appropriate.
f. General aesthetic quality of structures with respect to visual harmony with surrounding development.
3. Relationship of proposed development to surrounding areas of the community, including sidewalk and street connections, and provision for continuation of utility system routings, if required.
4. The Development Master Plan shall include evidence of formal adoption by the Governing Body of the institution as the official guide for long-range development.
Lots and tracts in the “S – I” District shall be subject to the following requirements:
1. A lot on which there is erected a single-family dwelling shall contain an area of not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet per family. The principal building and accessory structures shall not cover more than forty (40) percent of the lot area.
2. Tract sizes and building coverage for institutional uses shall be as shown on the formally adopted Development Master Plan, provided:
3. Buildings and accessory structures shall not cover more than sixty (60) percent of the area of the tract.
No building shall exceed forty-five (45) feet in height, except as otherwise provided in the additional height, area, and use regulations in this Ordinance unless otherwise permitted by the City.
Except as required for arterial and collector streets, (see additional height, area, and use regulations) yard requirements shall be as follows:
1. Front Yard:
a. Single-family dwellings - twenty-five (25) feet.
b. Institutional uses - as shown on the Development Master Plan with fifteen (15) feet minimum for buildings. Parking lots may be constructed within eight (8) feet of the front property line.
c. On corner lots there shall be a front yard along each street.
2. Side Yard:
a. Single-family dwellings – eight (8) feet.
b. Institutional uses - as shown on the Development Master Plan with eight (8) feet minimum for buildings and parking lots.
3. Rear Yard:
a. Single-family dwellings - twenty-five (25) feet.
b. Institutional uses - as shown on the Development Master Plan with fifteen (15) feet minimum for buildings. Parking lots may be constructed within eight (8) feet of the rear property line.
See ARTICLE XXV.
See ARTICLE XXVI
See ARTICLE XXVII.