The regulations set forth in this article, or set forth elsewhere in this resolution when referred to in this article, are the regulations in the A-O District Regulations (See article XIX).

(a)

Intent: These regulations are designed to apply to land so located that it is readily adaptable to commercial development but where proximity to residential, public, or other land uses, and its relationship to existing and projected traffic patterns, make it desirable to limit the extent of commercial and residential operations.

A building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

1.

Any use permitted in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District but not including single family dwelling, two family dwelling, agriculture, horticulture and general farming as provided in article VII, section 2, paragraph 7, and fraternities or sororities containing sleeping accommodations.

2.

Apothecary shop as an accessory retail use within a building without exterior advertising display, provided that only drugs, prescription medicines, medicinal supplies and pharmaceutical products shall be sold.

3.

Assembly halls, gymnasiums, stadiums, and similar structures operated on a nonprofit basis.

4.

Automobile parking garages and lots (commercial) provided that portions of open parking lots abutting dwelling districts are separated therefrom by a planted area 25 feet or more in width measured from the property line.

5.

Churches and temples.

6.

Clinics, medical, dental, chiropractic, osteopathic and similar operations, but not including a practice of veterinary medicine.

7.

Colleges, universities, business colleges, music conservatories, dancing schools and similar institutions, public or private, all without students in residence.

8.

Community center buildings, and other similar facilities operated on a nonprofit basis.

9.

Financial establishments, such as banks, loan companies, insurance companies.

10.

Government buildings: buildings used exclusively by the federal, state, county, or city governments for public purposes but not including repair garages, repair or storage yards for material, vehicles or equipment, warehouses, buildings and other facilities having commercial or industrial characteristics, and buildings used or intended to be used as correctional or penal institutions.

11.

Incidental accessory retail uses such as cafeterias, gift shoos, flower shops, snack bars, barber shop, beauty shop, tailor shoo, radio-TV shop, and repair shoe shop, conducted for the convenience of the employees, patients, patrons, or visitors on the premises wholly within the principal buildings and without exterior advertising display.

12.

Libraries, museums, and art galleries.

13.

Office buildings: governmental and private office buildings, including professional offices in which no retail trade activity is carried on with the general public and no stock of goods is maintained for sale to the general public, except as permitted in an accessory use.

14.

Signs:

(a)

Professional or announcement sign, illuminated indirectly, not more than 20 square feet in area mounted flat to the wall on the main building freestanding but situated no nearer to the street line than one-half the distance between the street line and the building line on the main building on the lot;

(b)

A temporary, unilluminated real estate sign not over 12 square feet in area pertaining only to the sale, lease, or rent of the property upon which the sign is located, provided the sign shall be mounted or displayed behind the building set-back line of the lot;

(c)

A church or institutional bulletin board or sign, not more than 12 square feet in area, illuminated indirectly, used to display the name and/or activities of the church or institution, situated no nearer to the street line than one-half the distance between the street line and the building line of the main building on the lot;

(d)

Lettering, illuminated indirectly, attached to or built into the front wall of the main building or assembly halls, churches, colleges and universities, community centers, government buildings, hospitals, libraries, museums, office buildings and schools, for the purpose of displaying the name and/or address of the facility upon which such lettering is affixed.

15.

Accessory building and uses customarily incident to the above listed uses. Any building used primarily for any of the above enumerated uses may have not more than 25 percent of the floor area devoted to storage purposes incidental to such primary use.

1.

Location of parking and loading areas on the lot:

(a)

The required off-street parking and loading area shall be provided in the rear yard or within that portion of the side yard which lies between the main building and the side lot line.

(b)

No off-street parking space shall be provided within 25 feet of any lot which abuts a dwelling district.

2.

Provision of required parking area on remote lots: The required parking area may be located on the lot with the principal use or on a lot separated therefrom by not more than 300 feet along a directly accessible walkway.

3.

Joint use of off-street parking areas: One-half of the off-street parking area required for any permitted use in this district, not including multiple dwellings, may be counted toward the parking requirements or the following uses, provided the uses sharing such parking areas are not normally open, used or operated during the principal operation hours of these uses:

(a)

Auditorium.

(b)

Assembly halls.

(c)

Churches.

(d)

Gymnasiums.

4.

Minimum requirements for off-street parking and loading:

(a)

Rooming house, boardinghouse, and professional office in place of abode; same as those in A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(b)

Multiple dwelling; 1½ spaces for every dwelling unit.

(c)

Hospitals or institutions: one space for every four beds, plus one space for each staff or visiting doctor (based on the average number), plus one space for every two employees, including nurses.

(d)

Clinics and offices of doctors, dentists, osteopaths and similar offices; five spaces for ever doctor plus one for every two employees.

(e)

Auditoriums, assembly halls, churches, gymnasiums, stadiums, libraries, museums, art galleries, private club or lodge, one space for each four fixed seats in the largest assemble room or facility or for each 35 square feet of enclosed floor area used for accommodation of movable seats in the largest assembly room, whichever is greater, plus one space for each 100 square feet of ground area used for assembly.

(f)

Government buildings, financial establishments, and office buildings other than clinics and offices for doctors, dentists, etc., one space for every 200 square feet of floor area (excluding storage area) plus one space for every two persons employed in an accessory use.

(g)

Schools.

(1)

Public or private elementary, and special schools without students in residence; two spaces for every classroom.

(2)

Public or private high; four spaces for every classroom.

(3)

Public or private colleges, music conservatories, dancing schools, universities, business colleges, one space for ever 200 square feet of floor area.

(4)

School auditorium assembly halls, stadiums, gymnasiums, same as subsection (e) above.

(h)

Accessory retail uses; one space for every two employees

(i)

One loading space on the lot shall be provided for each 15,000 square feet of area, or fraction thereof in excess or 5,000 square feet, devoted to uses requiring the receipt of distribution of material or merchandise by auto vehicle.

(j)

No lot shall have more than two curb breaks per 100 feet of frontage. No curb break shall exceed 30 feet in width. Curb breaks shall be not less than 25 feet from the intersection of two or more curb lines, as measured along one of the said curb lines.

1.

Buildings intended for multiple dwelling use shall not exceed three stories or 45 feet.

2.

Buildings intended for nondwelling use shall not exceed four stories or 60 feet in height except as or may be provided in this resolution. This limitation may be exceeded by special permit as provided in article XIX in specific building and site plans are reviewed and approved by the commissioners of roads and revenues subsequent to public hearing and recommendation of the Atlanta-Fulton County Joint Planning Board. Such approval shall follow investigation and finding that the proposed building:

(a)

Will provide adequate open space and off-street parking facilities, and

(b)

Will not adversely affect the privacy of adjoining uses and that screened buffer areas will provide separation from any adjoining single family residences.

1.

Multiple dwellings shall conform to the following requirements:

(a)

Front yard: The front yard regulations shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(b)

Side yard: The side yard regulations shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(c)

Rear yard: The rear yard regulations shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(d)

Lot area per family: The lot area per family shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(e)

Lot coverage: Maximum coverage of the lot by buildings including accessory buildings) shall be 35 percent of the gross lot area.

2.

Nondwelling uses shall conform to the following requirements:

(a)

Front yard: The front yard regulations shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(b)

Side yard: The side yard regulations shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(c)

Rear yard: The rear yard regulations shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.

(d)

Lot area per family: Lot area per family shall be the same as those in the C-1 Commercial District.

(e)

Lot coverage: Maximum coverage of the lot by buildings (including accessory buildings) shall be 40 percent of the gross lot.

The residential floor area regulations for multiple dwellings shall be the same as those in the A-1 Apartment Dwelling District.