Dubois City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XV
O-1 Office District
§ 450-94 Uses permitted.
A.
One-family semidetached dwellings.
B.
Two-family detached dwellings.
C.
Multiple-family dwellings.
D.
Boardinghouses, lodging or rooming houses, including bed-and-breakfast, homestead or inn.
E.
Conversion apartment.
F.
Hospital and surgery center.
G.
Professional offices or clinics, including offices for doctors, dentists, lawyers, chiropractors, accountants, realtors and similar professions.
H.
Prescription pharmacies and cafeterias and cafes, when accessory and incidental to office uses and not comprising more than 20% of the principal building.
I.
Drug treatment clinics or facilities, including methadone treatment facilities or clinics.
J.
Pain treatment facility or clinic.
K.
No-impact home-based business, as that use is defined and regulated by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code at 53 P.S. § 10107.
§ 450-95 Conditional use.
Nursing homes, medical personnel, dormitories, medical schools, sheltered care homes and other uses which may be desirable near office uses but that may be permitted only under the following specific conditions:
A.
The subject property shall front on an arterial or collector road, and all access drives shall be set back at least 50 feet from the intersection of any street right-of-way lines;
B.
Both public sewer and public water shall be utilized;
C.
Off-street parking spaces shall be provided at a rate of one per employee and an additional one per 200 square feet of gross floor area;
D.
Off-street loading shall be provided at a rate of one space per 25,000 square feet, or fraction thereof, of gross floor area;
E.
In addition to vehicular access to the property, the applicant shall be required to design and construct on-site connections to adjoining sidewalks;
F.
Unless deferred by the City Council, the applicant shall be required to provide an improved bus stop along any established route of public bus transport;
G.
Adequate lighting shall be provided for the security of patrons that will be arranged so as not to cast glare onto adjoining roads and properties. Such lighting must comply with the requirements of § 450-103G of this chapter;
H.
The minimum lot area for the total site shall be three acres with a minimum lot area for individual outparcels being one acre;
I.
The minimum lot width for the total site shall be 250 feet with the minimum lot width for individual outparcels being 100 feet;
J.
Maximum permitted building coverage shall be 30%;
K.
Minimum front-yard setback for buildings, off-street loading and waste receptacles shall be 60 feet;
L.
Minimum required side-yard setbacks shall be 20 feet on all sides;
M.
Minimum rear-yard setback for buildings, off-street loading and waste receptacles shall be 20 feet;
N.
Minimum required setbacks for off-street parking spaces shall be five feet;
O.
Maximum permitted height shall be 40 feet; and
P.
Signage shall be provided in accordance with the standards established in O-1 District in this chapter.
§ 450-96 Height regulations.
No building shall be erected to a height in excess of four stories and/or 40 feet.
§ 450-97 Area regulations.
All office uses shall be located on a lot having not less than 10,000 square feet or 2,500 square feet per individual office, whichever is greater. In all other respects the area regulations for the office zone shall conform with the regulations set forth in the Industrial Park District.
§ 450-98 Coverage regulations.
All buildings, including accessory buildings, shall not cover more than 30% of the area of the lot.
§ 450-99 Yard regulations.
§ 450-100 Off-street parking.
Off-street parking shall be provided at the rate of one parking space for each employee of the office plus one space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area. Where an office zone abuts a residential zone, all parking shall be screened by no less than a six-foot-high screen fence, uniformly painted.
§ 450-101 Signs.
No advertising device or sign shall be permitted in an O-1 Zone or on any building or premises other than a nonilluminated nameplate, not exceeding two square feet in area, with no dimension exceeding 30 inches, for each office or professional person occupying the building, which sign shall be attached to the exterior of the building. There shall be no storage of merchandise in the building or upon the premises other than that customarily used in business and professional offices.