The professional office district (POD) is designed to accommodate uses such as offices and personal services which can serve as transitional areas between residential and commercial districts. These are nonresidential uses of an administrative or professional nature which are necessary to the normal conduct of a community's activities.

No building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this ordinance:

A.

Medical and dental offices and clinics, and offices of similar or allied professions;

B.

Professional offices and services, including insurance, legal, financial, governmental, and similar or allied professions;

C.

Administrative, executive and editorial offices;

D.

Real estate and other general business offices, not including exhibiting or storing of products for sale;

E.

Schools for arts and crafts, photography and studios for music or dancing;

F.

Barbershops, beauty shops, and hair stylists;

G.

Accessory structures and uses customarily incidental to the above permitted uses; [and]

H.

Single family dwellings.

The following uses shall be considered conditional and shall require conditional use approval and shall comply with any applicable conditional use requirements of article XXV:

A.

Banks and financial institutions;

B.

Public, parochial and private schools including nursery schools, churches, temples, or similar places of worship, libraries, community buildings, hospitals, convalescent and nursing homes, and funeral homes;

C.

Any personal service or office use not specified as a principal permitted use which the planning commission finds to be consistent with the purposes of this section and will not impair the present or potential use of adjacent properties;

D.

Public utility transformer stations, substations and gas regulator stations without service or storage yards shall comply with the requirements of this ordinance and shall be subject to the following: a front yard setback of not less than 50 feet shall be provided (irrespective of the yard requirement of the district in which it is located) and two side yards and a rear yard shall be provided, each shall not be less than 25 feet in width. The previously mentioned conditional uses shall be landscaped with a buffer of plant materials that effectively screens the view of the use from property used for residences, public walkways and rights-of-way. The standard buffer shall consist of a landscaped strip at least six feet wide outside the perimeter of the compound. The buffer shall contain a variety of species of plants; [and]

E.

Other office uses not specifically stated or implied elsewhere which, in the determination of the planning commission, are similar to the principal permitted uses provided herein, and in harmony with the character of the district and the purpose and intent of this article and the comprehensive plan of the city.

(Ord. of 10-9-2007, § 6)

The following requirements shall be met within a professional office district (POD):

A.

Development plan approval for all non-single-family residential uses as specified in article XIX of this ordinance;

B.

Off-street parking, loading, and access management standards for all uses as specified in article XXIV of this ordinance;

C.

Signs for all uses as specified in the Boyne City Sign Ordinance;

D.

Height, area, lot coverage and yard regulations as specified in article XX of this ordinance;

E.

Landscaping requirements as specified in article XXIII of this ordinance;

F.

Design, architectural, and building material standards as specified in article XXII of this ordinance; [and]

G.

Provisions relating to all zoning districts (as applicable in each separate case) as specified in article XXI of this ordinance.