Presenter
Presented by Ms. Burns
Title
An Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Nine, Zoning, Article V by amending certain provisions of the Code as they pertain to definitions related to shelters, religious institutions, and community centers in the Use Table and the Use Standards for a community centers, religious institutions, and educational facilities.
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Be it resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1: The designated sections of Title Nine, Zoning of the Pittsburgh Code, are hereby amended as follows:
A. Amend the Use Table, Section 911.02, as follows:
Community Center [means] is a [facility used for social or recreational programs generally open to the public and intended to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community.] building operated by a public or nonprofit group or agency and used as a place of meeting or for recreational (including midnight basketball), social, educational, fraternal, and cultural activities generally open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community. Community Center also includes such uses as a social service facility (drop-in center).
Community Home [means] is a group of more than eight unrelated disabled persons living together as a single housekeeping unit with shared common facilities. If required, staff persons may reside on the premises. A Community Home may not be a Multi-Suite Residential use or an Assisted Living use as defined in Section 911.02. For the purposes of this definition, "disabled" means "handicapped" as defined according to the Fair Housing Act Amendments of 1988, 42 U.S.C.S. 3602(h), and any amendments thereto. This use does not include Custodial Care Facilities. This use includes halfway houses where persons are aided in readjusting to society following a period of hospitalization or institutionalized treatment.
Correctional Facility [means] is [faci...
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