The residential/office district is established to provide for professional offices, limited personal service businesses, and for community-oriented public and private facilities. The district should be used to buffer business districts from residential neighborhoods and also to provide for a greater distribution of offices, personal and professional services within residential areas where business districts would be undesirable. The district is designed to protect the abutting and surrounding areas by requiring that certain minimum yard and area standards comparable to those called for in the residential districts be met. Retail sales are prohibited except where related directly to office functions.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14)

In all R-O, residential/office districts, no buildings or land, except as otherwise provided in this ordinance shall be erected or used except for one (1) or more of the following specified uses:

(a)

Single-family dwellings.

(b)

Multifamily dwellings up to four (4) units, townhouses and condominiums.

(c)

Religious houses.

(d)

Home occupations as defined in Article II.

(e)

Accessory uses.

(f)

Pharmacy, limited to the sale of pharmaceutical and medical supplies and incidentals which are limited to twenty-five (25) percent of the floor space.

(g)

Beauty shops and barbershops.

(h)

Employment agency.

(i)

Professional offices and services.

(j)

Charitable offices.

(k)

Business associations.

(l)

Professional organizations.

(m)

Labor organizations.

(n)

Day care.

(o)

Art galleries.

(p)

Museums.

(q)

Residential care facilities.

(r)

Medical and dental offices.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14)

(a)

Apartment.

(b)

Banks.

(c)

Funeral home.

(d)

Civic, social and fraternal associations.

(e)

Hospital.

(f)

Laboratory, medical and dental.

(g)

Nonprofit public or private facilities including, but not limited to schools, churches, libraries, parks, recreational facilities, institutions, governmental facilities.

(h)

Studio for professional work such as photography, drama, speech, dance, music.

(i)

Family child-care home, with the following limitations:

(1)

There shall be a maximum of ten (10) children allowed in the home of which no more that [than] six (6) shall be unrelated to the care provider. No more than four (4) children under twelve (12) months of age nor more than six (6) children under six (6) years of age, including the provider's own or related children, shall be kept in the home.

(2)

No person may be employed that is not a resident of the premises.

(3)

Otherwise fully complies with the provisions of a home occupation as provided in Section 2.01 of this Code.

(j)

Allow multiple uses (businesses), but not more than three (3), may be allowed in the same structure (building) with a conditional permit.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14; Ord. No. 16-16, Exh. A, 4-26-16)

(a)

There shall be no outdoor storage of merchandise or material and no outdoor processing in any residential/office district.

(b)

All residential/office districts located on lots adjacent to a residential property shall provide a buffer or barrier within the required side or rear yard to block out the glare of lights, signs and other visual nuisances and to reduce noise and air pollutants.

(c)

All signs are subject to the following provisions:

(1)

Signs are to be for use identification and may not be used for advertising.

(2)

Signs shall not be illuminated.

(3)

Signs are restricted to five (5) feet from any lot line.

(4)

Signs shall not obstruct the view of traffic.

(5)

Signs are limited to one (1) per property.

(6)

No sign shall exceed ten (10) feet in height to the top of the display.

(7)

No sign shall exceed twenty-five (25) square feet in size.

(d)

Exterior lighting (building mounted and free standing), when provided, shall be limited to cutoff type luminaire with elements such as shields, reflectors or refractor panels which direct and cut off the light at a cutoff angle that is less than ninety (90) degrees.

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14)

(See attached schedule of regulations, Article XXVII.)

(Ord. No. 23-14, Exh. A, 7-8-14)