A. Purpose. Some areas within the city have unique characteristics, special land uses, and/or land use objectives that call for an overlay designation. Overlays impose restrictions on a specific geographic area within an existing zone or zones. Property in an overlay remains subject to the restrictions and limitations of the underlying zone and the overlay regulations act to supplement but not replace the regulations of the underlying zone.

B. Medical Overlay (MED-O). This overlay designation provides for coordinated expansion of Island Hospital and growth of medical support uses in the immediate vicinity while minimizing the impacts on surrounding residential uses.

C. Live/Work Overlay (LW-O). This overlay designation provides the opportunity to combine living and working spaces in individual units, provided the scale and impact of such nonresidential uses are limited. This designation is appropriate for select R-3 and R-4 zones that are adjacent to mixed-use and industrial zones.

D. Mixed-Use Business Overlay (MUB-O). This overlay designation provides the opportunity to integrate nonresidential uses together with residential uses. Such uses must be limited to those uses that minimize external or physical impacts on residential uses. Nonresidential uses may be developed as a single-use site or building or integrated with residential uses within a single building or on the same site. This designation is appropriate for select R-3 and R-4 zones that are adjacent to mixed-use or industrial zones. (Ord. 3040 § 2 (Att. A), 2019)