The MOE District shall be comprised of a minimum of 65% office square footage. The MOE District may contain a maximum of 20% retail square footage and a maximum of 25% institutional/recreational square footage as defined in this section. The construction of the retail and other permitted uses shall be only in conjunction with an equal amount of the office construction up to the maximum percentages.

The following are the principal permitted office uses:

The following are the principal permitted retail uses:

The following are the principal institutional/recreational uses:

Retail uses.

Other institutional/recreation uses.

Light manufacturing, provided that:

Cafeteria/lunchroom/snack bar for the use of building occupants where such facility is located.

Coin-operated vending machines and automated teller machines inside the building for the use of building occupants.

Off-street loading.

Recreational facilities for employees.

Conference and meeting facilities.

Trash receptacle area.

Fences and walls, provided such structures are similar in architectural treatment and materials to the principal building structure.

Parking area beneath structure of building.

Any similar accessory use as approved by the Department.

Minimum area of an individual mixed office/employment (MOE) District: 65 acres.

Maximum building height: 70 feet from finished grade, except for hospitals, for which the maximum is 115 feet from maximum height of finished grade, not including HVAC, elevator and other similar equipment which may be positioned atop the building.

Minimum building front setback: five feet.

Minimum building side setback: zero feet.

Minimum building rear setback: five feet.

Construction ratio: For each square foot of office construction no more than an equal amount of retail and/or institutional/recreational construction may occur within the same phase of development until the maximum percentage of each category is reached.

Setback from residential zoned lots or parcels: No building shall be constructed within 100 feet of the boundary line of a residential zoned lot or parcel.

Vehicular and pedestrian access. For purposes of this article, the term "pedestrian precinct" means a feature of the development that incorporates sidewalks, paved trails, and other passive and active open space amenities as required by this section, for the purpose of promoting and enhancing safe pedestrian circulation and bicycle use within the development, providing a pedestrian linkage of all uses within the development, and providing pedestrian and bicycle connections to adjoining neighborhoods. The development shall incorporate one or more pedestrian precincts. If the development features more than one pedestrian precinct, all such pedestrian precincts shall be connected by the sidewalks within the development. All uses within the development shall be connected to a pedestrian precinct. The sidewalks, paved trails, and open space amenities comprising the pedestrian precinct, all vehicular access points to the development, and all internal roadways within the development shall be located and designed to minimize traffic hazards and congestion and conflict between pedestrians and vehicles, and shall be designed in accordance with accepted principles of traffic engineering. A pedestrian precinct shall include an area or areas for pedestrian interaction, such as a green, plaza or courtyard that provides pedestrian amenities, such as, but not limited to seating areas, street furniture, lighting, landscaping, fountains, water features, art or other appropriate elements. Any such areas shall be of a size and location that is easily accessible by all users of the development.

Architectural treatment: Design guidelines that are to be incorporated into the submission of the site plan should include the following:

Open space. At least 25% of the development shall be used for passive and active open space. The areas devoted to parking lot landscaping, plazas, village greens, greenways, the pedestrian precinct, other recreational amenities, if any, and other areas suitable for active and passive open space shall be counted toward the open space requirement. Areas devoted to stormwater management facilities may be included in the calculation of open space if they are suitable for active or passive recreation and/or forest conservation easements.

Loading and receiving areas: Buildings having loading or receiving areas shall be designed so that the loading or receiving operations are not visible from any public City road.

Civic uses: The developer shall also provide at no cost to the City the following:

Public utility lines and structures: All public utility lines and structure shall meet the following requirements:

Record plat approval: The following additional items must be delivered to, reviewed by, and approved by the Department of Planning prior to recordation:

Parking standards: It is the intent of this district to encourage the efficient layout and design of the parking areas to encourage pedestrian movement, unified and shared parking areas and the minimization of impervious surfaces. A parking and pedestrian circulation plan shall be submitted as part of the site plan approval process.

Subdivision:

Other requirements. Uses defined under the category of COMAR 10.07.01.03 C are not included as permitted uses under the terms of permitted uses listed in the MOE Mixed Office/Employment Center.

A planting area parallel to a public street shall be designed to provide continuity of vegetation along the right-of-way and to soften the impact of development by providing a screened view from the public road. These planting areas, known as "street yards," shall be a minimum of 40 feet wide unless reduced as per § 205-33. Street yards shall contain one shade tree for every 35 linear feet or one ornamental tree per every 25 linear feet of street frontage, less driveway widths. These trees shall be generally equally distributed along the frontage of the public road, but are not required at absolute equal intervals to allow some flexibility in design and the avoidance of utility lines while discouraging long intervals without trees. Shrubbery shall be planted in clusters at a ratio of six shrubs for every tree. Except for utility distribution equipment not exceeding 42 inches in height and 20 square feet in area, which is painted an approved outdoor ANSI green and completely screened by shrubbery, evergreens or landscaping berms, no structures, roads (except driveway points), parking, accessory buildings, or mechanical equipment shall be contained in the planting areas. However, walkways, trails, objects of art and man-made landscape features are allowed.

All required open space, except open space in the parking areas and along private entrance roads as enumerated in Subsections D and E below, shall be landscaped at a ratio of 20 trees and 80 shrubs per acre. Areas that are currently forested and to be kept as open space shall be exempted from this planting requirement. All open space areas shall be a minimum of 25 feet wide. Walkways, trails, objects of art and man-made landscape features also are allowed in these planting areas. These areas shall be landscaped with a variety of trees and shrubs as approved by the Tree Commission. All areas of open space not covered by trees and shrubs shall be seeded with an appropriate seed mixture. For any area adjacent to any residential zoning district, landscaping design shall buffer the residential district from direct light and cause only minimal glare. "Minimal glare" is defined for this subsection as light of an intensity not exceeding 0.5 footcandle as measured at the property line between adjoining lots or parcels. Landscaping design shall incorporate a combination of a variety of vegetative landscape material and other landscaping techniques intended to effectively buffer residences in adjacent residential zoned lots or parcels from exterior lighting used within the MOE Zone. The Department of Planning shall require the installation of the vegetative landscape material in conjunction with other landscaping techniques at the earliest possible time during construction to provide the vegetation sufficient time to mature and provide an effective visual buffer.

If a landscape area or planting bed is proposed around a building it shall have a minimum width of five feet.

Off-street parking lots having more than 15 parking spaces shall provide a landscaped island at the ends of each parking row or aisle and additional landscaped islands at the ratio of one island at least eight feet wide for each 12 contiguous parking spaces. These landscaped islands shall be a minimum of 144 square feet in area for a single parking row and 288 square feet in area for a double parking row, with a minimum inside dimension of eight feet and a minimum prepared depth of 24 inches. These landscaped medians shall have a minimum inside dimension width of eight feet and a minimum prepared depth of 24 inches. The islands shall have curbs and gutters while the medians may either have curbs and gutters or be open sectioned to allow for stormwater infiltration, providing medians are protected with wheel stops at each parking space to protect them from vehicular encroachments. Trees shall be planted at a minimum rate of three trees and eight shrubs per every island of 244 square feet or larger and two trees and four shrubs for every island that is less than 244 feet square feet. Street yard trees cannot be credited toward the parking lot tree requirements. If the parking lot is used for stormwater management environmental site design practices, parking landscape requirements as required by this subsection shall be waived.

Any area considered to be a private entrance driveway shall have a minimum twenty-foot planting strip on both sides of the entrance driveway. This area shall be planted with at least one tree every 25 linear feet of frontage, less driveway widths. These trees shall be generally equally distributed along the frontage of the private entrance driveways, but are not required at absolute equal intervals to allow some flexibility in design and the avoidance of utility lines while discouraging long intervals without trees. Shrubbery shall be planted in clusters at a ratio of six shrubs for every tree, except where the Tree Commission recommends otherwise and where approved by the Department of Planning.

Exterior lighting:

Signage:[1] The project site plan shall identify the proposed location of all proposed signage. Signage shall be compatible in quality, style, color and materials to the building with which it is associated. Creative modifications to standard signage used by large corporations are encouraged. Signage elevations shall be submitted with sign permit applications. Ground monument signs shall be located to ensure safety to vehicular traffic and pedestrians. Freestanding signs shall not extend higher than 25 feet above the finished grade. No sign shall extend above the finished deck of a flat roof or the ridge of an elevated or gable roof of a building. Ground level signs, including monument signs, shall be no larger than 50 square feet, per face, not including framework, structure or support elements, for single-tenant signs and 100 square feet per face, not including framework, structure or support elements, for multiple-tenant signs. Elevated signs shall be no larger than 100 square feet, not including framework, structure or support posts. Freestanding or wall-mounted building and project naming signage is exempt from these specific signage regulations, however, such signage still requires review and approval by the Director of Planning.