The Regional Office Center District is intended to provide for the combining of office, research, hotel and motel uses in an unified development, and to provide for secondary retail and service uses to serve the development. The District is also established in order that the public health, safety and general welfare will be furthered in an era of increasing urbanization and of growing demand for offices of all types and design and is also provided to encourage innovations and variety in type, design, and arrangement of such uses. Because of the intensity of the development permitted in the Regional Office Center District, it shall generally be used only abutting one (1) or more freeways with access to more than one (1) arterial street.

   Secondary retail business or service establishments as set forth below shall be permitted subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 4.02. Secondary uses are established to reduce the need for the occupants of the R.O.C. District to depend on businesses located outside of the R.O.C. for goods and services and thereby reduce traffic congestion in and around the R.O.C. District.

   Because the diversified land uses in a Regional Office Center District may not be predetermined in detail, approval of the concept plan and each individual site plan of a staged development is an absolute necessity to assure a compatible arrangement of the varied land uses which are permitted to be mixed and to determine the impact of such uses on surrounding areas. The R.O.C. District shall remain under one (1) ownership or unified control unless safeguards are provided that, in the opinion of the Village of Itasca, will provide for the continuation of the original concept plan as may be modified from time to time. Emphasis will be based upon the review of pedestrian and vehicular circulation facilities such as sidewalks, parking areas, interior streets, pavement widths and rights-of-way because of the anticipated high volume of pedestrian and vehicular traffic which will be generated.

   For the purpose of this Ordinance, the R.O.C. District shall not be considered a Planned Development.