The purpose of the O-1 District is to provide
for the demand for suburban business and professional offices, including
the supporting facilities that such offices may require, and to meet
the needs of the resident population for convenience in obtaining
professional services.
In this district, the land may be used and buildings
and structures may be erected, altered or used for the following purposes
and no other:
B.
Conditional uses:
(1)
Professional and business offices and business services,
subject to the following express standards and criteria:
(a)
The site shall have direct access to a street
classified as arterial or collector.
(b)
Ingress, egress and internal traffic circulation
shall be designed to ensure safety and accommodate peak demands without
hazard or delay.
(c)
All lighting shall be shielded away from the
street and adjacent lots.
(d)
All materials and equipment shall be stored
in a completely enclosed structure or shall otherwise be screened
by a six-foot hedge or fence.
(e)
No shipping or receiving shall be permitted
within 500 feet of residential use or zoning classification between
the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
(f)
Medical offices and clinics and similar offices
with frequent turnover of clients shall provide, in addition to the
required one parking space per 300 square feet of floor area, an additional
six parking spaces per professional staff.
(g)
Adequate parking shall be provided for the proposed
use so that overflow parking on Borough streets shall not be permitted.
(h)
Buildings which are not initially designed to
house medical offices or clinics shall indicate compliance with the
additional parking requirements for such uses prior to obtaining approval
for a change in occupancy which includes such uses.
(i)
The maximum height of building required by § 374-82 may be increased by Borough Council to no more than seven stories and 90 feet, subject to:
[1]
Yards adjoining residential development or zoning
classification shall be increased one foot for every one foot of building
height in excess of 50 feet.
[2]
Yards adjoining nonresidential development or
zoning classification shall be increased by one foot for every two
feet of building height in excess of 35 feet.
[3]
Borough Council shall determine whether differences
in elevation between the site proposed for development and the adjacent
properties are such that the increase in height of the proposed office
building may negatively impact existing or future development of adjacent
properties.
[4]
At least one side of the site proposed for construction
of an office building which is to exceed three stories in height shall
adjoin a nonresidential zoning classification.
(2)
Branch banks, employee dining facilities, pharmacies and other supporting commercial facilities, subject to the requirements of § 374-30 and the following express standards and criteria:
(a)
Borough Council shall determine that the proposed
supporting facilities are directly related to the principal use of
the office building.
(b)
The proposed supporting facilities shall not
exceed 5,000 square feet of gross floor area of building.
(c)
Except for employee dining facilities, all supporting
facilities shall be located on the street level or ground level of
the building.
(d)
Employee dining facilities such as automats,
cafeterias, snack shops or lunch rooms which are only open during
normal business hours of the principal use and which do not serve
the public, except as guests of employees, may be located on any floor
of the building and may exceed the 5,000 square foot gross floor area
limit upon approval of Borough Council, if such increase in floor
area is necessary to serve the projected number of employees.
(e)
Pharmacies shall be limited to establishments
which are related to medical professional offices.
(f)
Branch banks shall be permitted only in office
developments which contain 100,000 square feet or more of gross floor
area.
(g)
Branch banks which have drive-in windows shall
locate the window so as to not interfere with efficient traffic circulation
on the site and shall provide adequate standing lanes which shall
not be counted in determining the parking area required for the authorized
uses.
(h)
Any outdoor dispensing facility, including but
not limited to such facilities as banking machines, whether freestanding
or included in the principal building, shall be required to provide
at least four parking spaces in addition to those required for the
principal and accessory uses on the site which shall be located within
50 feet of the dispensing facility and which shall not interfere with
the safe and efficient pedestrian and traffic circulation on the site.
In this district, the following area and bulk
regulations shall apply to the uses permitted:
A.
Minimum site area: two acres.
B.
Minimum lot width: 100 feet.
C.
Maximum lot coverage: 20%.
I.
Buffer area. A buffer area, as defined by this chapter,
shall be provided along all property lines which adjoin single-family
development or single-family or civic district zoning classification.
The buffer area shall be at least six feet in depth as measured from
the property line.
In this district, a loading and access area
shall be provided to the rear or side of all commercial buildings.
This area shall be sufficiently large so that any vehicle, while servicing
such commercial building, shall not protrude into any street or sidewalk
and this area, in all cases, shall be at least 20 feet in depth. The
purpose of this area shall be to provide rear or side access to the
building for fire and police protection and for the loading and unloading
of merchandise, and to protect such property and the occupants thereof.
Borough Council shall hear and decide applications for conditional uses in accordance with the procedures specified in § 374-118 of this chapter.
