The traditional office district established in this article is intended to permit those offices and restricted business uses which will provide opportunities for local employment close to residential areas, thus reducing travel to and from work and which will provide clean, modern office buildings in a landscaped setting or the appropriate re-use of existing residential dwellings; which will provide, adjacent to residential areas, appropriate districts for uses which do not generate large volumes of traffic, traffic congestion and parking problems; and which will promote the most desirable use of land in accordance with the future land use plan. The zones are intended for those corridors in transition where residential uses are adjacent and also are still located along the corridor.

(Ord. of 12-2-2002, § 70-421)

(a)

All permitted uses are subject to the restrictions set forth in section 70-425 of this article.

(b)

Single-family dwellings, except manufactured homes.

(c)

Family day care, group day care, adult day care and related uses.

(d)

Nursery schools, kindergartens, or day care facilities provided all state licensing requirements are met.

(e)

Temporary emergency construction and repair residences.

(f)

Offices of any type: Clinical, search and services not primarily related to goods or merchandise; provided, however, this subsection shall not include hospitals, medical offices, and freestanding healthcare service providers.

(g)

Operations designed to attract and serve customer or client on the premises such as office of attorney, physicians and other professions.

(h)

Other uses similar to the above, subject to the restrictions set forth in section 70-425 of this article.

(i)

Personal care home (two to six residents); personal care homes (seven to 15 residents); and congregate personal care homes (16+ residents).

(j)

Child-welfare facility (up to six residents).

(k)

Hospitals, medical offices, and freestanding healthcare service providers.

(Ord. of 12-2-2002, § 70-422; Ord. of 3-27-2018, pt. 15; Ord. of 10-24-2023(2), § 2)

All conditional uses are subject to the restrictions set forth in section 70-425 of this chapter.

(1)

Bed and breakfast inn.

(2)

Banks with drive in windows.

(3)

Hospitals or nursing homes.

(4)

Rooming house, lodging house, minimum of a weekly stay, maximum of 20 rooms.

(5)

As to hospitals, medical offices, and free standing healthcare service providers located or to be located in a C-4 Zone which is not upon the primary campus of a hospital as defined in O.C.G.A. § 31-6-2(30.1) or at the remote location of a hospital as defined in O.C.G.A. § 31-6-2(31.1), all freestanding ancillary healthcare services shall be required to obtain a conditional use permit under this section of the Code. For the purpose of the Lee County Zoning Code, the term "freestanding ancillary healthcare services" means services not provided on the primary campus of a hospital or at the "remote location of a hospital," and which provide the following types of ancillary care:

a.

Freestanding diagnostic ancillary healthcare services;

b.

Freestanding therapeutic ancillary healthcare services; and

c.

Freestanding custodial ancillary healthcare services.

Freestanding diagnostic ancillary healthcare services include, but is not limited to radiology, cardiac monitoring, pulmonology, audiology, clinical lab services — including, but not limited to urology and blood testing, sleep laboratory services, x-rays, ultrasounds, and imaging studies.

Freestanding therapeutic ancillary healthcare services shall include, but are not limited to dialysis, nutrition and food service, physical therapy, occupational therapy, language and speech therapy, and psychotherapy.

Freestanding custodial ancillary healthcare services include hospice care, nursing facilities, home healthcare and rehabilitation services.

(Ord. of 12-2-2002, § 70-423; Ord. of 3-27-2018, pt. 16; Ord. of 10-24-2023(2), § 2)

Protective screening for C-4 districts adjacent to or across the street (with the exception of arterial or collector roads) from residential zoning districts shall be in compliance with section 70-86 of this chapter.

(Ord. of 12-2-2002, § 70-424)

The following restrictions shall apply to all permitted and conditional businesses covered by this article.

(1)

All outdoor business operations shall be subject to the following restrictions:

a.

There shall be no outdoor storage or display of any kind.

b.

No business or activity, indoor or outdoor, shall be conducted in a manner which violates section 34-106 of this Code, nor shall any business activities, indoor or outdoor, cause decibel levels as taken in nearby residential neighborhoods to be such that they violate the restrictions set forth for that neighborhood in section 34-107 of this Code.

(2)

Retail businesses shall have no more than 7,000 square feet of gross floor area.

(3)

No business operations shall be conducted between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. with the exception of normal business opening and closing activities, i.e., cleaning, restocking, etc. Nor shall any establishment be open to the public during those hours.

(4)

Unless specifically covered by this article, all other sections of this article shall apply to all establishments.

(5)

Manufactured or mobile homes are not to be used as retail, office, etc.

(6)

Buildings constructed under this article shall have an architectural treatment of brick, stone, split-face blocks, painted/stained wood, architectural metal, stucco, or imitations of the same or other high quality architectural treatments approved by the planning director. Notwithstanding the foregoing, prohibited building materials shall include:

a.

Industrial or agricultural metal sheeting (profiled single or double skinned metal panels with exposed fasteners); and

b.

Standard painted or unpainted concrete block or plywood.

(Ord. of 12-2-2002, § 70-425; Ord. No. 2014-02, 8-26-2014)

*Each lot shall have, at a minimum, a 30-foot-wide access to a public road.

This height limitation shall not apply to grain elevators, silos, windmills, elevator legs, cooling towers, water towers, chimneys and smokestacks, or church spires.

(Ord. of 12-2-2002, § 70-426)