[R.O. 2009 § 17.27.010; Ord. No. 6220, 4-26-2021[1]]
Office district zoning will provide additional commercial opportunities
but be more restrictive than present commercial districts.
[1]
Editor's Note: Ord. No. 6220 also changed the title of this
Article from "Office District Zoning "O-1" to "Office District Zoning
"O.""
[R.O. 2009 § 17.27.020; Ord. No. 6220, 4-26-2021]
The regulations set forth in this Section or set forth elsewhere
in this Chapter, when referred to in this Section, are the regulations
of the "O" Office District zoning. The purpose of the "O" Office District
zoning is to provide adequate space in appropriate locations suitable
for accommodating medical, dental and similar service, as well as
professional offices. Bulk limitations are designed to provide maximum
compatibility with less intensive land use in adjacent residential
districts and with more intensive land use in adjacent commercial
districts.
[R.O. 2009 § 17.27.030; Ord. No. 6220, 4-26-2021]
A.
A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:
1.
Professional services and offices, including medical, dental
and other health-related services; legal, engineering, surveying,
architectural; research, accounting and planning services.
2.
Finance, insurance and real estate services and offices, including
banking and saving and loan institutions, credit services, security
and commodity brokers and dealers, insurance carriers, agents, brokers
and services, real-estate and real-estate related activities and holding
and investment services.
3.
Government services and offices, including executive, legislative
and judicial functions; protective functions; post offices.
4.
Educational services and offices, including public schools or
private schools having a curriculum similar to that ordinarily given
in a public school, including religious instruction in parochial schools,
but excluding driving education schools.
5.
Churches and similar places of worship, including religious
Sunday school buildings.
6.
Publicly owned or operated parks, playgrounds, community building,
museums, libraries or art galleries and municipal facilities, including
Police and Fire stations.
7.
Child or day care centers or nursery schools.
8.
Gymnasiums and multi-purpose recreational facilities typically
associated and appurtenant to public or private schools, churches
or similar places of worship.
9.
Restaurants, cafeterias, gift shops, magazine stands, drugstores
and medical prescriptions centers will be permitted, provided they
are operated as an accessory use to and located within a permitted
use of the "O" (Office District) zoning and, further, provided, that
any advertising of such sales shall be confined to the interior of
the building and shall not be visible from the outside of such building.
10.
Any other type of business, institutional, governmental, professional
or medical use not specifically permitted herein, when authorized
by the City Council after receipt of review and recommendations from
the Planning and Zoning Commission and only when consistent with the
intent and purpose of the "O" (Office District) zoning regulations.
11.
Accessory buildings and accessory uses customarily incidental
to the above uses, subject to the restrictions established in the
City Municipal Code.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Sections 405.960, Signage and 405.970,
Access, Parking and Loading Regulations, were repealed 4-26-2021 by
Ord. No. 6220.
[R.O. 2009 § 17.27.060; Ord. No. 6220, 4-26-2021]
A.
The maximum height of buildings permitted shall be as follows:
B.
Area. No building or structures shall be erected or enlarged, unless
the following yards are provided and maintained in connection with
such building, structure or enlargement for each lot:
1.
Front Yard. Each lot upon which a building is constructed shall
have a front yard of not less than thirty (30) feet.
2.
Side Yard. Each lot upon which a building is constructed shall
have a side yard of not less than twelve and one-half percent (12.5%)
of the width of the lot.
3.
Rear Yard. Each lot upon which a building is constructed shall
have a rear yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet.
C.
Lot Size. The minimum lot size permitted shall be as follows:
1.
All uses shall be on a lot having an area of not less than fifteen
thousand (15,000) square feet and a width at the front lot line of
not less than one hundred (100) feet.
2.
The maximum lot size permitted shall be two (2) acres or four
(4) acres as required These area requirements and restrictions apply
to each lot regardless of the number of lots owned or used.
Any exceptions to these regulations may be authorized by the
City Council after receipt, review and recommendations of the Planning
and Zoning Commission and only if consistent with the overall intent
and purpose of these regulations.
[R.O. 2009 § 17.27.070; Ord. No. 6220, 4-26-2021]
In the "O" Office District zoning, a building used for any of
the uses enumerated in this Chapter may not have more than forty percent
(40%) of its floor area devoted to purposes incidental to the primary
use. No material or goods offered for sale or stored in connection
with the uses of this category shall be displayed or stored outside
of a building.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 405.1000, Driveways, was repealed
4-26-2021 by Ord. No. 6220.
[R.O. 2009 § 17.27.090; Ord. No. 5522 §II, 11-2-2002; Ord. No. 6220, 4-26-2021]
Outdoor lighting, when provided, shall have an arrangement of
reflectors and an intensity of lighting which will not interfere with
adjacent land uses or the use of adjacent streets and shall not be
of the flashing or intermittent type.
