FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. ____ 2025 AN ORDINANCE
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The City of Scranton is amending its Zoning Ordinance to clarify and expand regulations related to hospitals and off-street parking. Key changes include broadening the definition of off-street parking to encompass public, fee-based, or customer-accommodation parking; expanding the allowable uses at hospitals to include medical research, training facilities, hospice, dental offices, nursing homes, and ambulatory surgery centers; and permitting off-site parking up to 400 feet away from the principal use if commonly owned. Additionally, the zoning map is being amended to reclassify two specific areas from Town-City Institutional to Civic zones, located near Mulberry Street and Linden Street respectively.
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