The O-1, Office District is intended to provide primarily for a community of business offices, professional offices, and research and related facilities. This area is further designed to ensure the compatibility between the permitted and special uses and the existing character of the adjacent land uses.

(Ord. No. 440, § 5, 6-10-19)

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 "CLU" are considered conditional land uses and uses denoted by a "SLU" are considered special land uses and may be approved by the planning commission subject to the applicable general and specific standards in Article 22, Special Land Uses and Article 23, Conditional Land Uses.

(Ord. No. 440, § 5, 6-10-19)

All permitted uses and special land uses are subject to the following setbacks, height, area, and lot dimensions are required as noted below:

Footnotes:

¹  The maximum percentage of coverage shall be determined by the use and the provisions of required off-street parking, loading and unloading and required yards.

²  Off-street parking for visitors may be permitted within the required front yard provided that such off-street parking is not located within 30 feet of the front lot line. The zoning board of appeals may permit the front yard requirement to be reduced to not less than 20 feet for buildings constructed prior to the effective date of this ordinance, provided that minimum off street parking requirements can still be met.

a) A minimum five-foot wide concrete sidewalk shall be provided within the road right-of-way for the entire frontage along a street.

b) No yard shall be required along the interior side lot lines when said property line is adjacent to like use districts or to railroad rights-of-way. A 20-foot greenbelt shall be provided, in addition to five- to eight-foot completely obscuring wall, within the required yard area and adjacent to the property line, when O-1 Office uses abut residential districts.

(Ord. No. 440, § 5, 6-10-19)

Buildings and uses in the O-1, Office District shall also be subject to all applicable standards and requirements set forth in this ordinance, including the following:

A.

Parking and off-street loading and unloading is required in accordance with Article 18.

B.

Exterior lighting is required in accordance with Article 19.

C.

Landscaping is required in accordance with Article 20.

D.

Site plan review is required in accordance with the requirements of Article 21.

E.

Signs are permitted in accordance with the city's sign ordinance, Article 14.

(Ord. No. 440, § 5, 6-10-19)