The purpose of this district is to provide sites for the development of office and related uses in a manner which is attractive for such uses and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. This district will generally serve to provide a transition from, and occur between commercial districts and residential districts in developing areas of the City. In addition, certain other kinds of uses are permitted under conditions and standards which assure their compatibility with a general concentration of office use, as well as with residential districts which may adjoin the P.C.O. District.

(Ord. No. 3063, § 3, 11-18-99)

Buildings, structures or premises shall be used and buildings and structures shall hereafter be erected, altered or enlarged only for the following uses:

(1) Offices: professional, business, administrative, executive and other offices in which goods or merchandise are not commercially created, displayed, sold, exchanged or stocked, or like uses.

(2) Banks, savings and loan associations, finance offices, lending institutions, stock and brokerage firms, and credit unions, or like uses.

(3) Studio: for fine arts, photography, music, drama, but not including commercial gymnasium; or like uses.

(4) Library, and telephone answering service, or like uses.

(5) Laboratories: medical, dental, blood bank, or like uses.

(Ord. No. 3063, § 3, 11-18-99)

[The following uses are permitted in this district subject to use permit:]

(1) Public or institutional building, such as hospitals, fire stations, police substations, YMCA, YWCA, and boy/girl clubs, or like uses.

(2) Private indoor athletic facility: health spas, enclosed tennis courts, handball courts, etc., or like uses.

(3) Hospital, private club, fraternity, sorority, and lodges, or like uses.

(4) Funeral home and chapel, or like uses.

(5) Churches, or like uses.

(6) Restaurants, pharmacies, and other accessory services subordinate and incidental to the principal uses permitted by section 35-2901 when conducted and entered only from within the principal building, and where there is no display or advertising pertaining to such accessory service visible from the exterior of the building, or like uses.

(7) Post office, or like uses.

(8) Private school, day-care center, or like uses.

(Ord. No. 3063, § 3, 11-18-99)

Any application for rezoning to the P.C.O. District shall be accompanied by a preliminary site development plan. The purpose of the plan is to conceptually demonstrate to the City the proposed improvements that will meet uses of the district.

(1) Required data: The following data shall be shown on the preliminary site development plan or submitted as part of the plan:

(a) The location, size, height and use of all structures.

(b) Vehicular and pedestrian circulation.

(c) Parking areas.

(d) Landscaped areas.

(e) The boundaries of the tract and surrounding land uses and zoning.

(f) Topography.

(2) Preliminary site development plan standards: The standards outlined in Article XIX, section 35-1902, will apply to all preliminary plans.

(3) Significance of preliminary site development plan:

(a) The preliminary site plan, if approved, will be referenced as an exhibit in the subject zoning case and will be incorporated as part of the zoning regulations affecting the subject real estate.

(b) The submission of a preliminary site plan under the P.C.O. District does not waive the requirements of Article XIX, "Site Development Plan." Those requirements must be met prior to issuance of building permits and all plans must conform to the preliminary plan approved as part of the rezoning case.

(c) The Planning and Zoning Commission may approve minor variations from the preliminary plan, provided that the overall intent and purpose of the plan is not violated. Any substantial variation will require approval of Council.

(d) The rezoning of property under the P.C.O. District regulations will be effective for a period of one (1) year from the effective date of the approved zone change. In the event that construction has not begun within one (1) year, the approved zoning of the property will revert to the previous district prior to zoning. However, upon request of the applicant and recommendation of the Commission, Council may extend the P.C.O. zoning for an additional year.

(Ord. No. 3063, § 3, 11-18-99)

(1) Height Regulations:

(a) No building shall exceed thirty (30) feet in height if adjacent to or abutting a single-family residential district.

(b) No building shall exceed thirty (30) feet in height at a thirty-foot front building setback line, except a building may exceed such height provided that at no point it projects above a line sloping inward and upward at a forty-five-degree angle at the required height and setback line to a maximum height of forty-five (45) feet.

(2) Front yard: No front yard is required except as listed in the following three (3) paragraphs, unless a block is partly in a residential district, in which event the front yard regulations of the district shall apply.

(a) A minimum of one-half (½) of the open space requirement shall be incorporated as frontage open space to provide a setting for the building.

(b) All areas between a building and a street frontage, except for access drives and walls, shall be landscaped unless otherwise permitted by use permit or Planning and Development Department approval.

(c) There shall be a landscape area of a minimum of six (6) feet in width between any parking area and any street frontage. Parking areas shall be screened from view from all streets.

(3) Side yards:

(a) A side yard of not less than fifty (50) feet shall be maintained where the side of the lot abuts a single-family residential district or abuts an alley which is adjacent to a single-family residential district. The fifty (50) feet may include the width of the alley.

(b) A side yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet shall be maintained where the side lots abut a multiple-family residential district. The twenty-five (25) feet may include any alley adjacent to the multiple-family residential district.

(c) In the case of a corner lot, a minimum of one-quarter (¼) of the open space requirement shall be incorporated in the side yard abutting a street.

(4) Rear yard:

(a) A rear yard of not less than fifty (50) feet shall be maintained where the rear lot abuts a single-family residential district. The fifty (50) feet may include the width of the alley.

(b) A rear yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet shall be maintained where the rear lot abuts a multiple-family residential district. The twenty-five (25) feet may include any alley adjacent to the multiple-family residential district.

(5) Walls, fences and required screening:

(a) Walls, fences and hedges not to exceed seven (7) feet in height shall be permitted on the property line or within the required yard areas, except within the required frontage open space, within which they may not exceed three (3) feet in height.

(b) All parking areas shall be screened from view from all public streets.

(c) All storage and refuse areas shall be screened as determined by the Planning and Development Department.

(d) All operations and storage shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building or within an area contained by a wall or fence as determined by use permit or Planning and Development Department.

(e) There shall be a six-foot-high masonry wall or approved landscaped screen on the rear and side property lines that are adjacent to any residential districts.

(Ord. No. 3063, § 3, 11-18-99)

(1) Intensity of lot use: No buildings shall occupy more than fifty-five (55) percent of the net lot area.

(2) Open space requirement: In no case shall the open space requirement be less than fifteen (15) percent of the total net lot area. Buildings exceeding thirty (30) feet in height shall provide twenty (20) percent of total net lot area in open space.

(3) Signs: All signs shall be in accordance with the City of Chandler Sign Code [Chapter 39].

(4) Parking regulations: All required off-street parking shall be in accordance with Article XVII [XVIII] of this Code.

(5) Access: All lots shall have frontage on and have vehicular access from a dedicated street unless secondary means of permanent vehicle access has been approved by the Planning and Development Department or by subdivision plat.

(Ord. No. 3063, § 3, 11-18-99; Ord. No. 4931, § 2(Exh.), 8-13-20)