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City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XVIII

P Professional District

§ 500-1801 Purpose and intent.

The purpose of the Professional District is to provide reasonable standards for the harmonious development of offices, medical facilities and educational, religious and philanthropic institutions and other related uses where, because of the nature of the undeveloped land, intensive development is not appropriate. The construction of single-family detached dwellings will not be precluded from this district.

§ 500-1802 Use regulations.

[Amended 10-2-2001 by Ord. No. 01-13]
A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes and no other:
A. 
Professional, business or government offices other than medical offices. Such uses shall not involve the actual storage, exchange or delivery of merchandise on the premises.
B. 
Medical office or clinic for medical or dental examination or treatment of persons as outpatients, including laboratories incidental thereto. Such uses shall have a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet.
C. 
Financial institutions on a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet.
D. 
Mortuaries.
E. 
Government or public buildings.
F. 
Educational institutions, including dormitories, day-care centers and driving schools.
G. 
Buildings for public worship.
H. 
Philanthropic and other nonprofit institutions which are noncommercial in nature.
I. 
Museums and libraries.
J. 
Club, lodge or fraternal institutions on a minimum lot area of 20,000 square feet.
K. 
Single-family detached dwelling, subject to the area and dimensional requirements of the R-2 Residence District (§ 500-903). Section 500-1803 shall not be applicable to this use.
L. 
Transient dwelling.
[Added 6-6-2016 by Ord. No. 16-01[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the redesignation of former Subsections L through O as Subsections M through P, respectively.
M. 
Telephone central office, electric substation.
N. 
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any permitted use in this district.
O. 
Signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Article XXVIII.
P. 
Forestry/timber harvesting, pursuant to the regulations set forth in § 500-402M of this chapter.

§ 500-1803 Area, dimensional and design requirements.

Unless a greater area or dimensional regulation is stated in § 500-1802, Use regulations, for a specific use, all uses in the P District shall meet the following requirements:
A. 
Minimum lot area: 10,000 square feet.
B. 
Minimum lot width: 80 feet.
C. 
Maximum building coverage: 20%.
D. 
Maximum impervious surface ratio: 50%.
E. 
Maximum building height: 35 feet.
F. 
Minimum yards.
(1) 
Front: 50 feet.
(2) 
Side: 20 feet.
(3) 
Rear: 25 feet.
G. 
Buffer yard. Along any adjacent land zoned for or in residential or agricultural use, a buffer yard shall be provided which shall be not less than 75 feet in width, measured from the property line or the street line. The buffer yard shall be in accordance with the provisions of § 500-2605.
H. 
Parking. Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Article XXVII.
I. 
Each use shall be served by adequate public water and public sewage disposal facilities.