Mitchelville City Zoning Code

The purpose of this district is to provide areas for the development of primarily professional and administrative offices, and some service uses. It is intended that this district be mapped primarily along arterial or collector streets in new, developing areas to reduce, limit, and contain strip retail development which has a more dynamic character, thereby enhancing proper movement of traffic, with appropriate setbacks, landscaping, and architecture to make such development reasonably compatible with nearby residential.

1.   Principal Permitted Uses. Only the uses of structures or land listed in this section shall be permitted.

   A.   Office or service such as the following: (retail and office only).

      (1)   Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services.

      (2)   Actuaries, chemists and other miscellaneous services.

      (3)   Advertising agencies and radio, television and publishers’ advertising representatives.

      (4)   Banking.

      (5)   Blood banks.

      (6)   Blueprinting and photocopying services.

      (7)   Business associations, professional membership associations and other membership organizations.

      (8)   Civic, social and fraternal associations.

      (9)   Commercial photography, art and graphics.

      (10)   Computer programming and other software services, and data processing services.

      (11)   Consumer credit reporting agencies, mercantile reporting agencies and adjustment and collection agencies.

      (12)   Credit agencies other than banks.

      (14)   Engineering, architectural and surveying services, including landscape architects.

      (15)   Insurance agents, brokers and service.

      (16)   Insurance.

      (17)   Legal services.

      (18)   Management, consulting and public relations services.

      (19)   Medical and dental laboratories.

      (20)   News syndicates.

      (21)   Noncommercial educational, scientific and research organizations.

      (22)   Noncommercial museums and art galleries.

      (23)   Offices of manufacturers’ sales representatives, subject to no outside display or storage of stock in trade. Indoor storage and display limited to 10 percent of total floor area of building.

      (24)   Offices of physicians, dentists, osteopathic physicians, chiropractors, optometrists and other health practitioners.

      (25)   Personnel supply services.

      (26)   Photographic studios, portrait.

      (27)   Political and religious organizations.

      (28)   Real estate.

      (29)   Security and commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges and services and holding and other investment offices.

      (30)   Travel agencies and bureaus.

2.   Permitted Accessory Uses.

   A.   Food and beverage services, cocktail lounges, apothecaries, barber shops or beauty salons, drafting or quick printing services, optical shop, recreational facilities primarily for use of employees, or similar uses shall be permitted where it can be demonstrated that the number of employees or clientele of the principal uses on the lot are sufficient to support such uses, subject to the following criteria in addition to all other requirements of this ordinance:

      (1)   Such incidental or accessory use may be a separate tenant but shall be incorporated within the principal building and designed to serve the employees of the principal building or their clientele. Such use shall not have any direct access from the exterior, but shall access through a principal use or from a common enclosed mall or courtyard.

      (2)   Total area of all accessory uses shall not exceed 25 percent of the total floor area or gross leasable floor area of the building.

      (3)   No signage or merchandise shall be displayed where visible to the general public from outside the building.

   B.   Uses of land and or structures customarily incidental and subordinate to one of the principal permitted uses, unless otherwise excluded.

   C.   Signs in accordance with Chapter 165 of this Code of Ordinances.

   D.   Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, said buildings shall be removed upon the completion of construction or abandonment of the construction site.

   E.   TV dish antennas in accordance with Chapter 168 of the Zoning Code - General Regulations.

3.   Permitted Conditional Uses.

   A.   General medical and surgical hospitals.

   B.   Extended care, intermediate care, or rehabilitation or residential care nursing facilities.

   C.   Outpatient care facilities.

   D.   Colleges, universities and professional schools, junior colleges and technical institutes.

   E.   Business and secretarial schools.

   F.   Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS), see Chapter 168 of the Zoning Code - General Regulations.

4.   Bulk Regulations. The following minimum requirements shall be observed subject to the modifications contained in Chapter 168.

   A.   Minimum Lot Area: 20,000 square feet.

   B.   Minimum Lot Width: 100 feet.

   C.   Front Yard Setback: 50 feet.

   D.   Side Yard Setback: 15 feet, except where side yard is adjacent to an R District, in which case the yard shall be at least 50 feet.

   E.   Rear Yard Setback: 25 feet.

   F.   Maximum Height: 65 feet

   G.   Maximum Number of Stories: four

   H.   A minimum of 20 percent of the lot area shall be retained as landscaped open space to include such items as walks, trees, shrubs, fountains, or other ornamental features.

 

 

5.   Performance Standards.

   A.   No stock in trade shall be stored or displayed outside nor shall any assembly or manufacturing activities be conducted on the premises.

   B.   Parking or loading areas located in the front yard or yard adjacent to a street shall be screened from observation by traffic on any and all public thoroughfares within 1,000 feet of such areas.

   C.   All refuse collection areas shall be fully enclosed by a six-foot high opaque fence or masonry wall which matches the exterior of the principal building. Recycling facilities must be incorporated into the refuse collection area.

   D.   Where the lot abuts property zoned for residential uses, a 50-foot buffer shall be provided.

   E.   Lots directly abutting arterial streets shall not exceed one drive access onto each such arterial street except as provided below. Common drives between adjacent landowners shall be encouraged in lieu of individual drives, recommended to be located with the common property line as the centerline of the drive and required to be located a minimum of 125 feet from any other drive as measured from centerline to centerline.

   F.   One additional drive access may be permitted for a lot with continuous frontage in excess of 300 feet, or two additional drive accesses for continuous frontage in excess of 600 feet, if proper spacing is provided.