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File #: 2006-0214    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 3/14/2006 In control: Committee on Planning, Zoning & Land Use
On agenda: Final action: 2/5/2007
Enactment date: 2/5/2007 Enactment #: 2
Effective date: 2/15/2007    
Title: Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Chapter 911.02 (Use Table) to provide a definition for the use of Controlled Substance Dispensation Facility and Chapter 911.04 (Use Standards) to provide use standards for same.
Sponsors: Len Bodack
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 09 - ZONING
Attachments: 1. 2006-0214.doc, 2. 2006-0214 v-2.doc, 3. 2006-0214 v-3.doc
Presenter
Presented by Mr. Bodack

Title
Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Chapter 911.02 (Use Table) to provide a definition for the use of Controlled Substance Dispensation Facility and Chapter 911.04 (Use Standards) to provide use standards for same.
BodyBe it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Chapter 911.02 (Use Table), and 911.04 (Use Standards) is supplemented as follows:

A. Insert the following into Chapter 911.02 (Use Table):

Controlled Substance Dispensation Facility means a public or private facility that sells, dispenses, distributes or otherwise provides any controlled substance, as defined in the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. ยง 802 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time, including, but not limited to, methadone, to any person known or believed by such facility or to any employee, agent or individual otherwise connected to such facility, to be physically or psychologically dependent on the use of controlled substances, for the detoxification treatment or maintenance treatment of such dependency, unless said controlled substance is sold, dispensed, distributed or otherwise provided for the cure or treatment of an illness, malady or disease other than controlled substance dependency.

B. Insert the following into Chapter 911.02 (Use Table):

Controlled Substance Dispensation Facility as a Permitted Use within and interior to Hospitals in the EMI Districts and as a Conditional Use in all non-residential Zoning Districts.

C. Add the following to Chapter 911.04 (Use Standards):

911.04.A.96 Controlled Substance Dispensation Facility

Controlled Substance Dispensation Facility uses shall be subject to the following standards in all Zoning Districts:

(a) The building or structure housing or enclosing a Controlled Substance Dispensation Facility shall not be established or operated within 50...

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