The OS Office Service District is designed to accommodate office
uses, office sales, and certain basic personal service uses. The district
may also serve as a district of land use transition between high traffic
corridors and residential districts, and between nonresidential and
residential districts.
The following regulations shall apply to all OS Districts, and
no building, structure or premises except as otherwise provided in
this chapter shall be erected, altered, or used except for one or
more of the following uses:
A. Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive; administrative; professional; accounting; writing; clerical; stenographic; drafting; and sales, subject to the limitations contained herein and §
370-30, Required conditions, in this chapter.
B. Medical offices, including clinics.
C. Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and similar
uses that may include drive-through facilities when an accessory function
to the principal building.
D. Articleshops, photographic studios, and interior decorating studios.
E. Publicly owned buildings, exchanges, and public utility offices,
but not including storage yards, transformer stations, substations
or gas regulator stations.
F. Personal service establishments, including barber shops, beauty shops
and health salons.
G. An accessory use customarily related to a principal use authorized
by this section, such as, but not limited to, a pharmacy or apothecary
shop; stores limited to corrective garments or bandages, or optical
service, may be permitted.
The following uses shall be permitted, subject to the conditions
hereinafter imposed for each use and subject further to review and
approval by the Building Department or the Planning Commission.
A. Facilities for human care such as hospitals and sanitariums, subject
to the following conditions.
(1) All such uses shall be developed only on sites consisting of at least
10 acres in area.
(2) The proposed site shall have at least one property line abutting
a major thoroughfare (a thoroughfare of at least 120 feet of right-of-way,
existing or proposed). All ingress and egress to the off-street parking
area for guests, employees, staff, as well as any other uses to the
facilities, shall be directly from a major thoroughfare.
(3) The minimum distance to any principal use, or accessory building
of two stories or more, from a residential district shall be at least
100 feet. For every story above two stories, the minimum setback from
any parcel line shall be increased by at least 20 feet, except no
setback shall be less than 100 feet from a residential district.
B. Dependent care facilities, as defined in this chapter, subject to the requirements of §
370-22F of this chapter.
C. Churches, subject to the requirements of §
370-14B of this chapter.
D. Child day care, or day-care center, as defined in this chapter and licensed by the State of Michigan for children or adults, subject to the conditions set forth in §
370-14H of this chapter.