The office district is intended to permit those office and personal service uses which will provide modern office buildings and related services to the community. The uses established in this district are intended to be of a low intensity nature, of appropriate scale and appearance, and are to be generally compatible with most other uses, including residential uses. Among other purposes, this district may serve as a transitional area between residential and commercial or industrial districts or as a buffer between major thoroughfares and residential districts.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1301, 6-19-2000)

In the O district the following uses are permitted:

1.

Office buildings for the use of any of the following occupations: executive; administrative; professional; accounting; writing; clerical; stenographic; drafting; and nonretail sales.

2.

Medical, dental or veterinary office, including clinics and medical, laboratories, except animal hospitals, or sanitariums for the care of contagious, mental, or drug or liquor addict cases.

3.

Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations.

4.

Publicly owned buildings, public utility transformer stations and substations, telephone exchanges, and public utility offices.

5.

Business, private or public schools.

6.

Photographic studios.

7.

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the permitted principal uses.

8.

Adult and child residential care facilities in accordance with section 615, adult and child care facilities.

9.

Therapeutic massage facilities which are operated by physicians, surgeons, chiropractors, osteopaths, or physical therapists who are duly licensed to practice their respective professions in the State of Michigan, or currently certified members of the American Massage Therapy Association, International Myomassethics Federation, or any other recognized massage association with equivalent professional membership standards, when the therapeutic massage is accessory to a professional office or medical clinic for a doctor, chiropractor, osteopath and similar or allied professions.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1302, 6-19-2000; Ord. No. 411, § 14, 1-18-2010; Ord. No. 499, § 1, 7-21-2025)

The following uses are permitted in the O district upon the granting of a special use permit, pursuant to and upon satisfaction of the terms and provisions of chapter 23, Special Uses, hereinafter set forth.

1.

Pharmacy or apothecary shops;

2.

Stores selling corrective garments, medical supplies, or bandages at retail;

3.

Optical services;

4.

Restaurants, accessory to a permitted office use, provided it is within the building to which it is accessory and does not have a direct outside entrance for customer use.

5.

Private service clubs, fraternal organizations and lodge halls.

6.

Commercial transmitting and receiving towers.

7.

General retail uses not exceeding 7,000 gross square feet.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1303, 6-19-2000; Ord. No. 430, § 1, 2-25-2013)

In the office district, the following requirements shall apply:

1.

Height of structures. No structure shall be erected or altered to a height exceeding two stories or 30 feet.

2.

Minimum lot area. 9,600 square feet.

3.

Minimum lot frontage. 80 feet.

4.

Minimum rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 15 feet.

5.

Minimum front yard depth. There shall be a front yard of not less than 30 feet as measured from the road right-of-way.

6.

Minimum side yard width. There shall be two side yards, neither of which shall be less than ten feet in width.

7.

Maximum lot coverage. No lot shall be occupied by buildings or structures covering more than 50 percent of the lot.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1304, 6-19-2000)

See chapter 20.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1305, 6-19-2000)

See chapter 21.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1306, 6-19-2000)

See chapter 24.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1307, 6-19-2000)

See chapter 19.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1308, 6-19-2000)

See section 2004.

(Ord. No. 346, § 1309, 6-19-2000)