The office-service district (O-S) is designed to accommodate various types of office uses performing administrative, professional and personal services. These are typically small office buildings which can serve as a transitional use between the more intensive uses of land such as major thoroughfares and/or commercial districts and the less intensive uses of land such as single-family residential.

This district is specifically intended to prohibit commercial establishments of a retail nature or other activities which require constant short-term parking and traffic from the general public except as provided in section 5.104.

This district is also intended to provide ancillary facilities and uses which will service the occupants of, and be in harmony with, the appropriate and orderly development of the office-service district.

No building, structure or land shall be erected or used in an Office-Service District (O-S) unless a site plan therefor has been approved per the provisions of section 5.22.

(Ord. No. 1046, 1-5-81; Ord. No. 1793, § 7, 8-19-24)

In an O-S, office-service, district no building, structure or land shall be erected or used except for the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this chapter:

(1)

Executive, administrative and professional offices.

(2)

Medical offices, including clinics and medical laboratories, and medical marihuana safety compliance centers (see article 4section 5.22-7 for requirements).

(3)

Facilities for human care, such as hospitals, sanitariums, convalescent and nursing homes.

(4)

Banks and similar financial institutions.

(5)

Libraries and government office buildings and public utility offices, but not including storage yards or post offices.

(6)

Private social or fraternal clubs or lodges.

(7)

Churches and related facilities.

(a)

Emergency shelters for the homeless and soup kitchens may be considered ancillary uses conditional upon the following:

i.

Shelter and/or meal service for seven (7) or more recipients is limited to two (2) weeks maximum in any one calendar year.

ii.

Shelter and/or meal service for seven (7) or more recipients is limited to one (1) week at a time throughout the calendar year.

iii.

Limitations on duration for six (6) or fewer recipients of shelter and/or meal service at a time do not apply.

(8)

Public or private schools or colleges for general or vocational education.

(9)

Nursery schools.

(10)

Photographic studios and interior decorating studios.

(11)

Funeral homes.

(12)

Personal services.

(13)

Veterinary clinics and hospitals provided all activities are conducted within a totally and permanently enclosed building.

(14)

Accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses.

(15)

Medical marijuana safety compliance facility.

(16)

Adult-use marijuana safety compliance facility.

(Ord. No. 1654, § 5, 3-20-16; Ord. No. 1709, § 7, 10-3-19; Ord. No. 1745, § 4, 11-4-21; Ord. No. 1763, § 3, 1-23-23)

The following uses may be permitted upon the review and approval of the city council only after a recommendation by the planning commission. The use or uses may only be approved when the following general standards have been satisfied and subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed.

(1)

Standards.

(a)

The proposed use or uses must be of such size and character that it will be in harmony with the appropriate and orderly development of the office-service district.

(b)

The location, size, and intensity of any such proposed use must be designed to eliminate any possible nuisance likely to emanate therefrom which might be adverse to occupants of any other nearby permitted uses.

(c)

The proposed use must be in accord with the spirit and purpose of this chapter and not be inconsistent with, or contrary to, the objectives sought to be accomplished by this chapter and principles of sound planning.

(d)

The proposed use is of such character that the vehicular traffic generated will not have an adverse effect upon, or be detrimental to, the surrounding land uses or the adjacent thoroughfares.

(e)

The proposed use is of such character and intensity and arranged on the site so as to eliminate any adverse effects resulting from noise, dust, dirt, glare, odor, or fumes.

(f)

The request for a use requiring special approval shall be accompanied by a site plan indicating the treatment of the subject property, the adjacent uses and properties, and the relationship of the building and site to adjoining thoroughfares.

(g)

Failure to begin construction within eighteen (18) months of approval of the city council shall make the approval null and void unless an extension is requested, in writing, by the applicant and the request is granted by the city council.

(h)

In approving a special use, the city council may attach reasonable conditions regarding the location, character and other features of the proposed use as they may deem reasonable in the furtherance of the intent of this section.

(i)

In the event of a protest to a proposed special use duly signed by the owners of twenty (20) percent or more of the combined area of land included within an area extending outward one hundred (100) feet (30.5 meters) from any point of the boundary, including one hundred (100) feet (30.5 meters) of the property directly across any street right-of-way measured from the property lines extended, a two-thirds concurring vote of the city council shall be required.

(2)

Uses.

(a)

Pharmacies and prescription centers when located in, or near, medical offices, medical clinics, hospitals, convalescent or nursing homes or similar facilities.

(b)

Private or public athletic clubs or health spas when conducted within a completely enclosed building.

(c)

Office and drafting supplies.

(d)

Reproduction and duplicating facilities and other complementary office services, but not a print shop.

(e)

Office warehousing when storage or warehousing of goods or products does not exceed sixty (60) percent of the usable area and further provided that:

1.

No manufacturing or production of goods or materials is conducted on the premises.

2.

Loading zones are not on any street frontage and are adequately obscured and screened from any residentially zoned property. Loading and unloading shall be restricted to normal business hours.

3.

The parking of trucks, truck trailers, vans or cars incidental to the use shall not exceed a period of twenty-four (24) hours.

4.

The outdoor storage or display of goods or materials is prohibited.

5.

The retail sales on a "cash and carry" basis of goods is prohibited.

6.

The minimum site size shall be three (3) acres (1.215 hectares).

(f)

Buildings in excess of two (2) stories or twenty-five (25) feet (7.625 meters), but not in excess of three (3) stories or thirty-five (35) feet (10.675 meters), provided that:

1.

The minimum site size shall be three (3) acres (1.215 hectares).

2.

The minimum setback from any single-family residentially zoned property shall be not less than seventy-five (75) feet (22.875 meters).

(g)

Automobile leasing and rental offices provided that:

1.

The area designated for the leasing or rental of automobiles and vans only shall not exceed fifteen (15) vehicles per site or the number of parking spaces available on the site in excess of parking requirements of article 4, section 5.30, off-street parking requirements, whichever is less. the standard is necessary to insure maintenance of the office character of the site.

2.

The parking area for the vehicles for lease or rental shall not be located in areas that are required for tenant parking, aisleways, loading, landscaping, sidewalks, or required setbacks.

3.

The parking of the vehicles for lease or rental shall not interfere with the primary office use of the site.

4.

The leasing of vehicles exceeding three (3) tons (2.721 metric tons) is expressly prohibited.

5.

The sale, maintenance, and/or repair of vehicles at the site is prohibited.

6.

All vehicles shall be licensed, operable, and in good physical condition.

7.

The storage or parking of tow trucks is expressly prohibited.

8.

The firm, company, or agent's office for the leasing of said vehicles is located on the premises, and further, said use shall be accessory to the permitted uses within this district and not be the only use located within a freestanding building.

(h)

Residential structures converted to, or used for, nonresidential purposes as permitted in section 5.103, uses permitted, and section 5.104, uses permitted subject to special approval, of article 9, Office-Service District (O-S), and further provided that:

1.

The minimum floor area of the existing structure is two thousand (2,000) square feet (186 square meters).

2.

The proposed use meets all requirements within this chapter.

3.

All residential structures that were converted to nonresidential purposes with the approval of the city prior to the effective date of this chapter (May 22, 1989), which contain less than two thousand (2,000) square feet (186 square meters) shall not be deemed in noncompliance with this subsection 5.104.(2)(h), merely because of floor area.

(i)

Uses that are related and reasonably necessary or convenient for the satisfactory and efficient operation of a complete and integrated Office-Service District.

(j)

Self-storage facilities may be permitted under special use upon the following conditions and restrictions and shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection 5.105, required conditions of this article.

1.

The site property line shall abut on at least one (1) side, property zoned I-1, Industrial, which allows for outside storage of materials or TVR, Television-Radio-Office Studio Districts, which allows independent equipment to be placed outside of buildings.

2.

The height of the building shall not exceed three (3) stories or thirty-five (35) feet.

3.

The building shall be constructed on the exterior in such a manor as to resemble an office building.

4.

All storage rental areas shall be accessed from the interior only with only one (1) primary ingress door and one egress door for vehicles allowed.

5.

Any manager's apartment or caretaker facilities shall not exceed one thousand four hundred (1,400) square feet (130.2 square meters) and located within the building.

6.

The area and bulk regulations shall be determined by article 22, schedule of regulations, except a side yard is not required on interior side lot lines when abutting the I-1, Industrial, and TV-R, Television-Radio-Studio Districts and which is developed with a permanent permitted use.

(3)

Restaurants. Any restaurant approved by the city council under this section prior to the effective date of this amendment to the zoning ordinance shall be deemed to be a permitted use within the O-S District and such use shall remain subject to all of the provisions of this section as it existed immediately prior to the adoption of this amendment.

(Ord. No. 1044-A, 12-22-80; Ord. No. 1237, 2-15-88; Ord. No. 1277, 5-22-89; Ord. No. 1463, 6-17-01)

(1)

No interior display shall be visible from any property line.

(2)

The outdoor storage or display of goods or materials shall be prohibited irrespective of whether or not they are for sale.

(3)

Warehousing or indoor storage of goods or materials in quantity greater than normally incidental to the above permitted uses shall be prohibited.

(4)

Not more than fifty (50) percent of any front or side yard abutting a street shall be used for vehicular parking or driveways. This parking restriction is necessary to maintain the transitional character of the area that this district is intended to preserve.

(5)

In addition to required landscaping, landscaping may be provided in lieu of ten (10) percent of the total number of parking spaces required, provided the landscaping is arranged such that parking may be installed at a later date if such a demand arises, and further provided, that the owner agrees to provide such parking at the city's request.

(6)

Landscape plans and green infrastructure/low impact development methods required per article 4section 5.31(21)(b).

(Ord. No. 1242, 2-25-88; Ord. No. 1678, § 6, 7-6-17)

(1)

Necessary directional or regulatory traffic signs of not more than two (2) square feet (0.186 square meters) each shall be permitted.

(2)

No moving or flashing parts or lights or devices shall be permitted. All incandescent light sources shall be shielded from view from residentially zoned property. No lighting fixture shall be so located and directed as to be a hazard to traffic safety.

(Ord. No. 1340, 6-8-92)

See article 22, schedule of regulations, which limits the height and bulk of buildings, determines the permitted development area, and provides minimum yard setback requirements.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 1793, § 7, adopted Aug. 19, 2024, repealed § 5.108, which pertained to provision for a one-year grace period for approved site plans and derived from Ord. No. 1046, adopted Jan. 5, 1981.