The purpose of the OB district is to establish and maintain a district used for low intensity uses such as administration and professional services, small retail businesses, multi-family residential dwellings and medical facilities. Low intensity refers to limited traffic generation, limited business signage, and limited hours of operation.

(Ord. 24-01 § 1 (part), 2001)

In the OB district, no building, structure, or land use shall be permitted or used except for the following:

1.

Apartments located within a business structure;

2.

Assisted living;

3.

Bed and breakfast;

4.

Bed and breakfast homestay;

5.

Bed and breakfast inn;

6.

Branch community facilities: postal, library;

7.

Mortuaries;

8.

Churches;

9.

Day-care, adult;

10.

Child care center;

11.

Family child care;

12.

Family group child care;

13.

Group homes;

14.

Independent parking lots, parking structures, parking garages;

15.

Medical and dental supplies, retail;

16.

Medical labs, medical clinics, outpatient facilities, surgical clinics, health spas, rehabilitation centers and public health facilities;

17.

Nursing homes and sanitariums;

18.

Offices, general and professional;

19.

Parks, playgrounds, historical sites, golf courses, and other similar recreational facilities;

20.

Personal service shops;

21.

Single-family residences;

22.

Two-family residences;

23.

Multifamily residences up to, and including, four stories or forty-five feet in height, whichever is less;

24.

Townhouses;

25.

Condominiums for both residential and office use;

26.

Vocational centers, medical institutions, and training facilities;

27.

Neighborhood assembly uses;

28.

Regional assembly uses;

29.

Grocery store;

30.

Neighborhood grocery;

31.

Coffee shops, cafes and restaurants without drive-up windows;

32.

Sundry shops and specialty shops.

(Ord. 24-01 § 1 (part), 2001)

(Ord. No. 12-11, § 1(B), (C), 3-21-2011; Ord. No. 16-11, §§ 2(B), 3(B), 4(A), 10(A), 14, 4-19-2011)

A.

Developments exceeding twenty residential units per acre;

B.

Public utility and public service installations and facilities, excluding business offices and repair and storage facilities;

C.

Reserved;

D.

Schools.

(Ord. 24-01 § 1 (part), 2001)

(Ord. No. 16-11, § 9, 4-19-2011)

A.

Lot Area. For all uses, there shall be a minimum lot size of four thousand square feet except for provided below:

1.

Multifamily dwellings, condominiums, and townhouses of three or more units shall have a minimum of one thousand five hundred square feet per dwelling unit;

2.

Assisted living, nursing homes and sanitariums, minimum lot size of twelve thousand square feet;

3.

Commercial use, six thousand square feet.

B.

Lot Width.

1.

For all uses except townhouses, forty feet;

2.

For townhouses, twenty feet per individual townhouse unit.

C.

Yard Requirements.

1.

Front yard setback, fifteen feet with alley, or eighteen feet without alley;

2.

Rear yard setback, ten feet;

3.

Side yard setback, five feet;

4.

The front yards of a corner lot shall not be less than fifteen feet;

5.

Business or commercial uses, front and rear yard, fifteen feet, side yard, five feet from property line;

6.

Townhouses, zero lot line between adjoining townhouse units; five-foot side yard for each end unit.

D.

Maximum Height Limitations.

1.

Multifamily dwelling, four stories or forty-five feet, whichever is less;

2.

All other uses, two stories or twenty-five feet, whichever is less;

E.

Buffering. For multifamily developments, business, and commercial uses, which adjoin single-family residential properties, one of the six buffering alternatives expressed in Appendix C of this title shall be developed to reduce noise and increase visual privacy.

(Ord. 28-08 § 21, 2008; Ord. 24-01 § 1 (part), 2001)

(Ord. No. 9-11, § 1, 3-1-2011)