Nassau County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE 19
- COMMERCIAL, PROFESSIONAL AND OFFICE: CPO
INTENT: The provisions of this district are intended to apply to urban areas with convenient access to a major thoroughfare and to other business areas, wherein activities are restricted to financial, professional, health care and business office operations.
The Commercial, Professional and Office District is a medium intensity category of commercial zoning which may serve as a buffer or transitional zone between residential development and more intensive commercial or industrial development.
Section 19.01.- Permitted uses and structures.
(A)
Medical and dental offices (but not hospital), chiropractor and licensed massage therapist.
(B)
Professional offices such as accountants, architects, attorneys, engineers, land surveyors, optometrists and similar uses.
(C)
Business offices, such as: real estate, insurance, stock brokers, manufacturer's agents and similar uses.
(D)
All of the permitted uses in the CPO District are limited by the following conditions:
(1)
No retail sales display or storage of merchandise shall be permitted.
(2)
No vehicles other than passenger automobiles or trucks of not more than three-quarter (¾) ton capacity shall be utilized.
(3)
No manufacture, repair, or work of a mechanical nature shall be permitted and no machinery shall be used other than normal office equipment, e.g., typewriters, calculators, computers, bookkeeping machines.
Section 19.02. - Permitted accessory uses and structures.
See article 28, section 28.15.
Section 19.03. - Conditional uses.
(A)
Hospitals.
(B)
Nursing homes.
(C)
Child care facilities.
(D)
Adult day care centers.
(E)
Churches (except temporary revival establishments).
(F)
Medical or dental laboratories and establishments, manufacturing prosthetic appliances, dentures, eye glasses, hearing aids and similar products.
(Ord. No. 2019-21, § 2F, 7-22-19)
Section 19.04. - Minimum lot requirements.
(A)
Minimum lot width: Sixty (60) feet.
(B)
Minimum lot area: Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet.
Section 19.05. - Minimum yard requirements.
(A)
Front yard: Twenty-five (25) feet.
(B)
Side Yard: Twenty (20) feet.
(C)
Rear Yard: Ten (10) feet: Those structures constructed along the Atlantic Coastline shall utilize the adopted "coastal construction control (setback) line", or a measurement of one hundred fifty (150) feet, measured from the mean high water line (MHL), whichever is the greater distance.
Section 19.06. - Building restrictions.
(A)
Maximum lot coverage: Sixty-five (65) percent.
(B)
Maximum building height: Thirty-five (35) feet. Within unincorporated Amelia Island, maximum building height is forty-five (45) feet.
(Ord. No. 2021-08, § 2F, 6-14-21; Ord. No. 2021-20, § 2E, 9-27-21)
Section 19.07. - Special restrictions.
In areas designated as conservation (wetlands) on the future land use map, only passive recreation and silviculture will be permitted.