The office district (O) is designed to accommodate uses such as offices, banks, and personal services which can serve as transitional areas between residential and commercial districts and to provide a transition between major thoroughfares and residential districts.

In the office district, land, buildings, and other structures shall be used only for one or more of the uses specified in the table below. Uses denoted by a "P" are permitted by right, whereas uses denoted by "C" have site development standards for specific uses and uses denoted by a "S" are considered special land uses and may be approved by the planning commission subject to the applicable general and specific standards in article XI, site development standards for specific uses and article XIII, special land uses.

All uses within the office district shall adhere to the following area, height, bulk, and placement regulations:

Footnotes for section 102-102 schedule limiting height, bulk, density and area:

¹ Setbacks for institutional uses (such as places of worship, nonprofit organization, academic institution, library or hospital) in residential districts shall be as follows:

a.

A 35-foot wide greenbelt shall be provided along major thoroughfares or arterial roadways in all residential districts for residential developments. Building setbacks are measured from the interior line of the greenbelt. See article XXI, landscape standards and tree replacement.

b.

Refer to article XXI, landscape standards and tree replacement for required setback and buffering based on adjacent zoning districts.

c.

All yard areas shall be lawn, ground cover or living landscape plant materials, except for access drives, sidewalks, bike paths, architectural features, permitted accessory buildings and essential service facilities.

d.

Refer to section 102-40, projections into yards.

e.

Refer to subsection 102-255(d), off-street parking space design and setback requirements, of article XIX, off-street parking and loading-unloading standards, for parking setbacks.

² Front yard requirements in accordance with section 102-21, front yard requirements. Front yard setback reductions are permitted as follows:

a.

Where the front yards for existing main buildings in the vicinity of, and in the same zoning districts as a subject lot are less than the required front yard for the zoning district of the subject lot, the required front yard for the subject lot shall be no less than 90 percent and no more than 135 percent of the average established front setback of existing main buildings on the same side of the street and entirely or partially within 300 feet of the side lot lines of the subject lot, subject to subsections b. and c. below.

b.

The front yard setback reduction shall only be permitted if there are two or more lots occupied by main buildings within the area described in subsection a, above, for computing the average front yard.

c.

In no case shall the required front yard resulting from the application of subsection a and b, above, be less than 15 feet.

All principal uses and special land uses are subject to the following site development requirements:

(1)

Article II: General provisions.

(2)

Article XV: Site plan review.

(3)

Article XIX: Off-street parking and loading standards.

(4)

Article XX: Access management and driveway standards.

(5)

Article XXI: Landscape standards and tree replacement.

(6)

Article XXII: Lighting standards.

(7)

Chapter 70: Signs.