Rock Island City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XXII
O-1 SMALL OFFICE DISTRICT
22.1 General Description:
The Small Office (O-1) 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:
22.1a To provide means of transitional use of land between commercial and residential uses.
22.1b To promote, enhance, and conserve quality of the manmade environment.
22.1c To protect the worth of property.
22.1d To promote the most desirable use of land.
22.1e To provide an appropriate district for functions separate from those dealing in sales, repair, recreation, storage, processing, assembly, lodging, and eating.
22.1f 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 which do not make use of large illuminated displays or signs, from those which do.
22.1g To provide a use district for offices for those who provide services only including instruments of service.
22.1h To provide a district of less intense use and to encourage lower density use and retention of open space.
22.1i To make use of areas which are not appropriate for other uses.
22.1j To control the growth of other districts.
22.1k To make less valuable land available for use other than residential.
22.2 Permitted Principal Uses:
22.2a Religious Institution.
22.2b Community service offices.
22.2c Consultant offices.
22.2d Dwelling above the ground floor.
22.2e Funeral Home.
22.2f Nursing Home.
22.2g Offices providing clerical administration.
22.2h Professional offices.
22.2i Schools and facilities for academic instruction.
22.2j Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent.
22.3 Permitted Accessory Uses:
Accessory uses incidental to a permitted principal use other than a permanent residence.
22.4 When Authorized by Board of Zoning Appeals:
22.4a Dwellings.
22.4b Any other similar uses deemed to be consistent by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
22.5 Height Regulations:
No principal structure shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty feet (30') in height, and no accessory structure shall exceed one (1) story or fifteen feet (15') in height, except as provided in Additional Requirements, Exceptions, and Modifications chapter of this appendix.
22.6 Lot Area and Yard Requirements:
The following minimum requirements shall be observed for both primary and accessory building along with all bufferyard requirements. No accessory building shall be located in a front yard.
Height | Front Yard Depth | Side Yard Width | Rear Yard Depth |
35 ft. or same as adjacent R District | 0 ft. | 10 feet or same as adjacent R District, whichever is greater. For Religious Institutions and Schools, however, it shall be the same as adjacent R District or 20 feet, whichever is greater. | 10 feet or same as adjacent R District, whichever is greater. For Religious Institutions and Schools, however, it shall be the same as adjacent R District or 20 feet, whichever is greater. |
(Ord. 070-2020, 12-21-2020)