The office district set forth herein is established to promote public welfare, convenience, comfort, and orderly growth of the community. These objectives include, but are not limited to, the following:

   A.   To provide means of transitional use of land between commercial and residential uses.

   B.   To promote, enhance, and conserve quality of the manmade environment.

   C.   To protect the worth of property.

   D.   To promote the most desirable use of land.

   E.   To provide an appropriate district for functions separate from those dealing in sales, repair, recreation, storage, processing, assembly, lodging, and eating.

   F.   To separate those functions which are obtrusive; quiet; do not generate large quantities of waste, noise, odor or traffic; use heavy machinery; require docking facilities or separate service entrances; and do not make use of large illuminated displays or signs, from those which do.

   G.   To provide a use district for offices for those who provide services only including instruments of service.

   H.   To provide a district of less intense use and to encourage lower density use and retention of open space.

   I.   To make use of areas which are not appropriate for other uses.

   J.   To control the growth of other districts.

   K.   To make less valuable land available for use other than residential. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

Church.

Community service offices.

Consultant offices.

Dwelling above the ground floor.

Funeral home.

Hospital and special care facilities.

Nursing home.

Offices providing clerical administration.

Professional offices.

Schools and facilities for academic instruction.

Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the zoning officer. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

Accessory uses incidental to a permitted principal use other than a permanent residence. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

The following uses may be allowed as special uses only upon approval by the village board after public hearing and recommendation by the planning commission. See chapter 3, article A of this title for special use permit application procedures.

None. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004; amd. Ord. 1523, 9-7-2010; 2011 Code)

No principal structure shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty feet (30') in height, and no accessory structure shall exceed one story or fifteen feet (15') in height, except as provided in section 11-5-2 of this title. (Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)

The following minimum requirements shall be observed for both primary and accessory buildings along with buffer yard requirements as described in section 11-22-3 of this title. No accessory building shall be located in a front yard.

 

 

(Ord. 1301, 3-15-2004)