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Georgetown Township
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 13

OS - OFFICE-SERVICE COMMERCIAL

Sec 13.1 PURPOSE

This District is designed to accommodate office uses together with office sales uses and certain personal services. It is the purpose of this district to accommodate permitted uses typically in proximity to major shopping facilities and/or in compatible relationship with the major arterial street system and surrounding land uses. The nature of modern office use development provides greater compatibility for integration into a community structure. Therefore, this District has been established for the purpose of encouraging office and related development, but excluding general commercial activity.

Sec 13.2 PERMITTED USES

Land and/or buildings in this District may be used for the following purposes by right:

  1. Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, drafting, and office equipment and supplies sales.
  2. Medical offices including clinics.
  3. Banks, credit unions, savings and loan institutions not including drive-through facilities.
  4. Personal service establishments which perform personal services on the premises, including barber and beauty shops, interior decorating shops, photographic studios, laundromats or similar uses. (revised 7/25/95)
  5. Hospitals, provided, at least one (1) property line abuts a major or minor arterial street; minimum main and accessory building setback shall be one hundred (100) feet; and ambulance and emergency entrance areas shall be visually screened from view of adjacent residential uses by a structure or by a sight-obscuring wall or fence of six (6) feet or more in height. Access to and from the ambulance and delivery area shall be directly from a major or minor arterial street. (revised 3/28/16)
  6. Commercial schools including art, business, music, dance, professional, and trade.
  7. Municipal buildings, public utility buildings, service installations, exchanges, and public utility offices. (revised 3/28/16)
  8. Churches. (revised 3/28/16)
  9. Accessory buildings and uses as defined in Chapter II.
  10. Day care centers. (revised 6/11/18)

Sec 13.3 USES REQUIRING SPECIAL LAND USE APPROVAL

The following uses may be permitted by obtaining Special Land Use Approval when all applicable standards as cited in Chapter XX are met.

  1. Drive-through establishments including banks, dry cleaning pick-up stations and similar personal services, but not including drive-through restaurants and vehicle service stations. (revised 11/25/18)
  2. Restaurants or other establishments serving food and beverages but not including drive- throughs. This includes restaurants having a distillery, brewery or winery on the same site. (revised 11/25/18)
  3. Mortuaries and funeral homes.
  4. Commercial soil removal.
  5. Commercial radio and television and wireless communication towers. (Revised 11/1997)
  6. Deleted 6/11/18.

Sec 13.4 DISTRICT REGULATIONS

As required in Chapter XXIV.

Sec 13.5 SIGNS

As provided in Chapter XXV.

Sec 13.6 OFF-STREET PARKING

Requirements for an allowed use shall be determined from the "Table of Off-Street Parking Requirements" in Chapter XXVI, Section 26.8.

Sec 13.7 OFF-STREET LOADING

As required in Chapter XXVI, Section 26.10.