The "GO" General Office District is established to identify and provide for geographic areas within the City of Pinellas Park that are appropriate for the development and maintenance of an office-oriented business environment. This district is intended primarily for commercial establishments that provide personal and/or professional services and complementary retail establishments, together with accessory uses and public facilities customary to or required for such an environment.

This district is appropriate for areas designated on the Official Land Use Plan Map as Residential/Office/Retail (R/O/R), Residential/Office General (R/OG), Commercial General (CG) and Community Redevelopment District (CRD).

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)73., 3-14-2019)

A maximum of twelve and one-half (12.5) dwelling units per gross acre shall be permitted in the "GO" General Office District.

For lots located within the Residential/Office General (R/OG) and Residential/Office/Retail (R/O/R) Land Use Plan Map categories, public/semi-public uses, (except Public Educational Facilities) shall not exceed a maximum area of five (5) gross acres. Ancillary nonresidential or Transportation/Utility uses shall not exceed a maximum of three (3) acres. For lots located in the Commercial General (CG) Land Use Plan Map category, public/semi-public or Transportation/Utility uses shall not exceed a maximum of five (5) acres. Any such use, alone or when added to existing abutting or functionally abutting like uses, which exceeds the thresholds stated above shall require a Land Use Plan Map amendment to Institutional (I), Transportation/Utility (T/U) or other Land Use Plan Map category (as appropriate), which shall include such use and all abutting or functionally abutting like uses.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)74., 3-14-2019)

No building or land in the "GO" District shall be used, and no building shall be hereafter erected, structurally altered or enlarged, except for the permitted and conditional uses listed below. The uses listed as conditional uses below may be permitted if their site locations and proposed development site plans are first approved, as provided in the procedure for approval of conditional uses under Section 18-1531, "Conditional Use Regulations", of this Article. Uses that are similar to any permitted or conditional use, as determined by the Planning and Development Services Director, shall be permitted in the same manner (i.e. permitted versus conditional) as the listed use to which it is similar, provided that any similar use specifically permitted in another zoning district shall not be permitted. Permitted (P) and conditional (C) uses shall be subject to the conditions established in the following Table 18-1519.3 and other applicable conditions of this district and Article.

Table 18-1519.3 Authorized Uses in GO District

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 3928, § 15, 1-22-2015; Ord. No. 3987, § 2, 7-14-2016; Ord. No. 4079, § 1(Att. A)75., 3-14-2019; Ord. No. 4106, § 5, 3-12-2020; Ord. No. 4205, § 15, 7-27-2023)

(A)

MINIMUM LOT REQUIREMENTS.

1.

Lot Area: Ten thousand (10,000) square feet.

2.

Lot Width: One hundred (100) feet, except one hundred fifteen (115) feet on a corner lot.

3.

Lot Depth: One hundred (100) feet.

4.

Lots of record not meeting the lot area or width or depth requirements of this section and having been of record prior to August 25, 1977 may be used for a permitted or conditional use provided that all other dimensional regulations will apply.

(B)

MINIMUM YARD SETBACK REQUIREMENTS.

1.

Front Yard Setback: Twenty (20) feet plus five (5) feet more for each story above the second story.

2.

Secondary Front Yard Setback: Twenty (20) feet plus five (5) feet more for each story above the second story.

3.

Side Yard Setback: Five (5) feet.

4.

Rear Yard Setback: Fifteen (15) feet.

5.

For corner, double frontage and multiple frontage lots, see Section 18-1503.7, "Yard Determinations."

6.

Any yard directly abutting a single-family zoning district shall have an additional five-foot setback added to the basic requirements of this Section.

7.

Refer to Section 18-1503.8 for measurement of yard setbacks on lots adjacent to rights-of-way of insufficient width.

8.

Refer to Section 18-1504.3(G)(2) for special yard setbacks for additions to buildings in existence as of August 14, 1997.

(C)

MAXIMUM LOT COVERAGE. Seventy-five (75) percent.

(D)

MINIMUM LIVEABLE FLOOR AREA.

1.

Single-family Detached Dwellings:

a.

Nine hundred (900) square feet in R/OG or R/O/R.

b.

One thousand (1,000) square feet in CRD.

2.

Multi-Family Dwellings:

a.

Efficiency: Four hundred fifty (450) square feet.

b.

One-bedroom: Five hundred fifty (550) square feet.

c.

Two-bedroom: Six hundred fifty (650) square feet.

d.

Three-bedroom: Eight hundred (800) square feet.

(E)

MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT. Forty (40) feet excluding mechanical and/or elevator penthouses (additional height may be granted as a conditional use). See Section 18-1503.13, "Exclusion from Height Limits", for height limit exclusions.

(F)

MINIMUM BUILDING SEPARATION. Must meet Florida Building Code separation requirements.

(G)

FLOOR AREA RATIO.

1.

Nonresidential Uses:

(a)

Thirty hundredths (0.30) in R/O/R.

(b)

Thirty-five hundredths (0.35) R/OG.

(c)

Forty-five hundredths (0.45) CG.

(d)

Thirty-five hundredths (0.35) CRD.

2.

Mixed Use Development:

(a)

See "R-6" zoning district.

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010; Ord. No. 4279, § 14, 11-26-2024)

(A)

FENCES. See Section 18-1530.10, "Fences, Walls and Hedges" for fence regulations and setbacks.

(B)

LANDSCAPING AND BUFFERING FOR ADJACENT AREAS AND MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT. See Section 18-1533, "Landscaping Regulations."

(C)

ILLUMINATION. See Section 18-1503.15, "Illumination."

(D)

DUMPSTER ENCLOSURES See Section 18-1530.20, "Dumpsters Section 18-1530, "Accessory Use and Supplementary District Regulations."

(E)

OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING. See Section 18-1532, "Parking and Loading Regulations."

(Ord. No. 3748, § 3, 10-28-2010)