§ 20. Adult care facilities.
Adult care facilities in Pooler are listed and defined into three major classes: family personal care homes, group personal care homes, and congregate personal care homes. The requirements for these uses are as follows:
(A)
Family personal care home. This use is limited to six or fewer persons including supervisory personnel and staff and must meet the following requirements:
(1)
Such use shall comply with the Georgia Department of Human Resources, "Standards for Adult Daycare" as amended.
(2)
The parking layout and design shall be characteristic of the neighborhood within which such use is located.
(3)
When the building housing such use is located within 150 feet of a dwelling unit, the use shall operate only between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
(4)
The use shall only be established in a building designed as and occupied as a one or two family dwelling structure.
(B)
Group and congregate personal care homes. This use allows around the clock operation and is divided into three categories based on the number of persons served. The following requirements apply to all personal care home regardless of the zoning district for which they are located:
(1)
Such use shall provide the number of off-street parking spaces required for nursing homes and hospitals as set forth in section 5(A)(3), off street parking and unloading, plus safe and functional off-street patron pick-up and delivery spaces.
(2)
At least one staff person must reside in the home.
(3)
Visiting hours must be limited to hours of 6:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. when such use is located in a residential neighborhood.
(4)
Such use shall only be permitted on a lot which abuts and has vehicular access to a collector street, major arterial or secondary arterial. The aldermanic board may waive this requirement if, on the basis of evidence presented, it finds that the traffic to be generated by a particular use can be accommodated on other streets without creating traffic congestion and traffic hazards to the neighborhood served by such streets.
(5)
Such use shall comply with the Georgia Department of Human Resources, "Standards for Adult Daycare" as amended.
(6)
The parking layout and design shall be characteristic of the neighborhood within which such use is located.
(7)
When the building housing such use is located within 150 feet of a dwelling unit, the use shall operate only between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
(8)
Where the use abuts a lot occupied by a one or two-family dwelling, visual buffers shall be provided so as to shield all parking areas and outdoor activity areas from the abutting property. Such buffer shall consist of trees or other vegetation of such height and depth as determined by the planning commission or of an appropriately designed fence or wall or a combination thereof as approved by the planning and zoning commission.
(9)
Only one non-illuminated or indirectly illuminated sign not to exceed three square feet in area shall be permitted. Provided that where such use is adjacent to or directly across from a non-residential use or district, the aldermanic board may allow a principal use sign of up to 12 square feet in area when it is to be located on the side of the property facing the non-residential use or district and where the sign design is found to be in keeping with the character of the neighborhood.
(10)
A site plan shall be submitted to the planning commission and aldermanic board for review and approval prior to issuance of either a building permit or an occupancy permit.