The Professional Office Zone 5 is intended to permit 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, which will provide, adjacent to residential areas, appropriate districts for use 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 City's Master Plan.

In Zone 5 the following uses shall be permitted:

A.

Business, professional and governmental offices, including executive, administrative, professional, accounting, real estate, clerical, stenographic and drafting. The above uses shall not be constructed to eliminate offices of recognized manufactures' agents, provided that no display will be in an exterior show window, and the total area devoted to display, including the objects, shall not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the usable floor area of the establishment using the display of an actual product for sale as a sales procedure; provided that there shall be no outdoor storage of goods or material, irrespective of whether or not they are for sale, and provided further, that there shall be no warehousing or indoor storage of goods or material, irrespective of whether or not they are for sale beyond that normally incidental to the above permitted office type uses.

B.

Medical or dental centers, clinics, not including veterinarian hospital.

C.

Professional office of a medical doctor, osteopath, chiropractor, dentist, optometrist, architect, layer, professional engineer, land surveyor, landscape architect or community planner.

D.

Any use similar to the above provided that no use in this classification shall involve the receipt, storage, sale or display of personal property items.

E.

Off-street parking in accordance with the requirements in Article VI.

F.

Public, Parochial, and private elementary, middle and high schools.

G.

Fire Station.

The following uses may be permitted subject to applicable site design standards in Article XIV and subject further to the approval of the City Council in accordance with processing procedures in Section 15.08:

A.

Financial institutions, including banks, savings and loan offices and credit unions.

B.

Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric utility substations, gas regulator stations and similar uses, but not including storage yards. Special Use Approval shall be required even if such uses are considered Essential Services, as defined in Section 2.02.

Wireless Communication Facilities may be permitted as principal permitted uses or as special land uses, depending on compliance with criteria specified in Section 4.40 (B), and subject to all applicable standards and conditions in Section 4.40.

For all uses in Zone 5, a site plan shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for review and approval in accordance with Section 4.33.

Awning of any type, material, style, or color shall be prohibited.

Area, height, bulk and placement requirements, unless otherwise specified, are as provided in Article XIII.

All tree removal, replacement, and pruning, re-landscaping and land clearing and other activities that affect trees and woodlands, are subject to the requirements of the Woodland, Tree and Vegetation Preservation Ordinance.