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.
A.
No interior display of any kind for any use permitted in the district
shall be visible from the exterior of the building, and the total
area devoted to display, including both the objects displayed and
the floor space set aside for persons observing the displayed objects,
shall not exceed 25% of the usable floor area of either the first
or second story, or in the basement.
B.
The outdoor storage of goods or materials of any kind shall be expressly
prohibited.
C.
Warehousing or indoor storage of goods or material, beyond that normally
incident to the above-permitted uses, shall be prohibited.
D.
See Article XVIII, Schedule of Regulations; District Options, limiting the height and bulk of buildings, the minimum size of a lot permitted by land use, the maximum density permitted and providing minimum yard setback requirements.
