The ORI Office, Research and Light Industry District is intended to provide an environment suitable for and limited to research and development activities, engineering and testing activities, office uses, warehousing, and limited manufacturing that will not have an adverse effect upon the environmental quality of the community.

No building, structure, or parcel of land shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected, altered, or enlarged which is arranged, intended, or designed for other than one of the following uses:

1.

Banks and financial institutions.

2.

Civic buildings.

3.

Clinics - medical and dental.

4.

Engineering and testing laboratories and offices.

5.

Laboratories, offices, and other facilities for research and development, including basic, applied, development and technical services conducted by or for any individual, organization, or concern, whether public or private.

6.

Low-nuisance industrial activities, including, but not limited to, electronic and scientific precision instruments manufacture, cloth products manufacture, light machinery production and assembly, printing and publishing.

7.

Pilot plants in which processes planned for use in production elsewhere can be tested to the extent reasonably necessary for full investigation of the merits of a product or process, including commercial viability.

8.

Production of prototype products when limited to the scale reasonably necessary for full investigation of the merits of a product, including commercial viability.

9.

Warehouses and storage facilities, but excluding motor freight terminals.

The following special uses may be permitted in specific situations as appropriate:

1.

Food manufacturer, packaging and processing, not including meat packing, rendering plants and slaughter houses.

2.

General retail and services located along a State or County highway.

3.

Height limit increase.

4.

Planned unit development. The primary use within a planned unit development shall be one or more of the principal permitted uses, and may include any of the following uses:

a.

Cultural and recreational facilities, churches, auditoriums, and public gathering places.

b.

Eating and drinking establishments.

c.

Health clubs.

d.

Schools.

5.

Public and private utility facilities.

6.

Sales and storage of building materials and products.

1.

Warehouse and storage facility functions shall be conducted within enclosed buildings and structures.

2.

All business, servicing, or processing, except for off-street parking and off-street loading, shall be conducted within completely enclosed buildings.

3.

All outside storage areas of goods, materials, products, and trash containers shall be enclosed with fences or landscaping of at least seventy-five percent (75%) capacity. Lighting of the facility shall be directed away from surrounding properties.

The minimum area in the ORI District shall be two (2) acres, except for planned unit developments which shall have no minimum area required. The minimum lot area shall be twenty-four thousand (24,000) square feet, except for Planned Unit Developments which shall have a minimum area of five (5) acres.

The minimum lot width, at the frontage line, in the ORI District shall be one hundred feet (100').

The minimum building setback and yard requirements shall be as follows:

1.

General yard requirements (structures under thirty feet (30') in height).

*A setback from all residential districts, of sixty feet (60') shall be maintained. A minimum of thirty feet (30') of landscaped area shall be provided along such District boundary or property line separating the specified Districts. The required landscaped area shall be grass covered and densely planted with shrubs and trees to buffer adjacent residential land uses to provide a year-round visual screen in accordance with the Site Plan Review Ordinance. A fence shall be required in cases where the City Council finds landscaping along is insufficient to protect the health, safety and welfare of adjacent land owners or occupants. Designated parking areas shall be prohibited within the buffer area.

2.

Special yard requirements (structures over thirty feet (30') in height).

The yard requirements stated in Subsection 1. of this Section shall be increased by one foot (1') for each three feet (3') in height that any building or structure on the lots exceeds a height of thirty feet (30'), and except that requirement for interior side yards adjacent to a railroad right-of-way shall be exempt from this special setback requirement.

The maximum height and floor area ratio for all buildings and structures in the ORI District shall be as follows:

1.

The maximum height for all buildings and structures in the ORI District shall be one hundred feet (100'); however, this limit may be increased to one hundred fifty feet (150') by a special use after Public Hearing before the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of this Ordinance. Any such increased height shall be reasonably required for the particular research or development use to which the property in question is to be put.

2.

The basic floor area ratio in the ORI District shall be 0.70. However, for those buildings and structures that provide special design improvements, a floor area ratio premium may be granted as a special use by the City after a Public Hearing before the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of this Ordinance. This premium may be added to the basic floor area ratio in accordance with the following:

a.

If seventy-five percent (75%) or more of the required parking is provided underground or within the building, then a floor area ratio premium of 0.20 shall be allowed.

b.

As the lot size increases, a floor area ratio premium of 0.02 will be granted for each additional acre in lot size above two (2) acres to a maximum of ten (10) acres.