RO Restricted Office Districts are 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.

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89.)

   In an RO Restricted Office District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code:

   (a)   Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, drafting and sales;

   (b)   Medical offices, including laboratories and clinics;

   (c)   Facilities for human care, such as hospitals, sanitariums and rest and convalescent homes;

   (d)   Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations and similar uses with drive-in facilities as an accessory use only;

   (e)   Personal service establishments, including barber shops, beauty shops and health salons;

   (f)   Off-street parking lots;

   (g)   Other uses similar to the uses set forth in this section; and

   (h)   Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the permitted uses set forth in this section.

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89; Ord. 918. Passed 11-3-10.)

   In an RO Restricted Office District, the following uses shall be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use, and subject further to approval by the Planning Commission in accordance with the public hearing requirements set forth in Section 1262.07:

   (a)   Pharmacies or apothecary shops, stores limited to corrective garments or bandages or stores providing optical services and the like, provided such uses are those customarily related to a principal permitted use in the RO District;

   (b)   Mortuary establishments, when an adequate assembly area is provided off-street for vehicles to be used in funeral processions, provided that such assembly area shall be provided in addition to any required off-street parking area. A caretaker's residence may be provided within the main building of a mortuary establishment.

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89.)

   (c)   Publicly owned and occupied buildings containing administrative functions as the principal use of the building. Administrative functions may include, within the principal building, accessory functions that provide community recreation, and uses of a technical and research nature, including pilot business development programs of a temporary nature, provided that the following conditions are met:

      (1)   All such uses shall require review and approval by the Building Department for compliance with the intent and purpose of this section.

      (2)   All such uses approved by the Building Department shall be approved as temporary uses, and a temporary use permit shall be issued for each such use. A temporary use permit shall be for a one-year period, commencing on the date of issuance of the permit. A maximum of two additional one-year temporary use permits may be issued for the use by the Building Department for a maximum tenancy as a temporary use of three years, commencing on the date of issuance of the first temporary use permit. Beyond the third year, the pilot development operation shall lose its temporary status and shall either relocate to other premises off-site or relocate within the facility itself as a permanent use, provided that the use is one permitted in the district.

      (3)   Temporary pilot business programs shall be subject to periodic inspection and evaluation by the Building Department for conformance with the intent and purpose of the district and the applicable standards of this section. The Building Department, in making its periodic evaluations, shall find that a temporary business program is not:

         A.   Generating any outdoor storage of materials, parts or finished or partially finished products.

         B.   Creating a working environment that is hazardous to itself, the building it is in or other uses, programs or functions taking place within the building, by means of noise, vibration, smoke or dangerous or hazardous materials, without proper permits having been first obtained and without effective safeguards having been first established.

         C.   Generating an excessive demand for employee off-street parking or generating an excessive number of material or product deliveries.

(Ord. 518. Passed 10-7-92.)

   The following conditions, where applicable, shall apply to all uses permitted under this chapter:

   (a)   No interior display shall be visible from the exterior of the building.

   (b)   The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited.

   (c)   Warehousing or the indoor storage of goods or materials, beyond that normally incident to the permitted uses described in this chapter, shall be prohibited.

   (d)   Uses permitted in Section 1274.02(c) shall be subject to the density restrictions of Section 1298.01(d).

   (e)   See Section 1298.01 for limitations on the height and bulk of buildings and building setbacks.

   (f)   See Chapters 1292 and 1298 for provisions regarding:

      (1)   Accessory uses

      (2)   Off-street parking and loading

      (3)   Site plan review

      (4)   Improvement guarantees

      (5)   Landscape planting standards

      (6)   Exterior lighting

      (7)   Corner clearance

      (8)   Screen walls and earth berms

      (9)   Frontage on a public street

      (10)   Access to major thoroughfares

      (11)   Exterior building wall facades

      (12)   Signs

(Ord. 458. Passed 1-4-89.)