950 9th Ct Boca Raton, FL 33486-2214

No building or structure or part thereof shall be erected or altered in an MC district to a height of more than 25 feet, with the following exceptions: (a) Hospitals shall be limited to a maximum of 150 feet in height. (b) Any building or structure other than a hospital that is more than 250 feet in airline distance from the nearest plot line of any plot zoned single-family residential shall be limited to a maximum of 50 feet in height. (c) A parking structure that is accessory to a hospital and is more than 140 feet, but not more than 250 feet, in airline distance from the nearest plot line of any plot zoned single family residential shall be limited to a maximum of 50 feet in height, provided that the parking structure meets the following additional requirement: 1. The longest dimension of the parking structure is less than 20 percent of the length of the following described plot line: the plot line, of the plot on which the parking structure is to be constructed, that is nearest to any plot zoned single family residential. (d) Landscaping and design of a parking structure adjacent to all residential property shall involve the following: 1. The parking structure is adequately screened, which shall include, between any plot zoned residential and any side of the parking structure that is generally parallel to the nearest plot zoned residential (the "parking structure residential frontage"), 2 rows of landscaping, as follows: immediately adjacent to the wall of the parking structure residential frontage, a row of landscaping consisting of a mix of trees and shrubbery; and, closer to the nearest plot zoned residential, a row of landscaping that includes canopy trees that are a minimum of 15 feet high at time of planting, planted every 30 feet on center. The 2 rows of landscaping shall extend at least the entire length of the parking structure residential frontage. Additionally, there shall be continuous shrubs and ground cover along the parking structure residential frontage, except for necessary breaks for entrances to the parking structure and other purposes, as approved through the site plan approval process. All landscaping rows as described herein shall be of sufficient size to accommodate the proper growth of the proposed plant material, as determined by the city manager or designee. All landscaping shall be approved in accordance with all applicable landscaping requirements set forth in this Code. 2.