Tremont City Zoning Code
OS OFFICE
DISTRICT
§ 153.105 INTENT.
The OS-1 Office District is designed to accommodate uses such as offices, banks and personal services which can serve as transitional areas between residential and business districts and to provide a transition between major thoroughfares and residential districts.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018)
§ 153.106 PRINCIPAL USES PERMITTED.
In the Office District, no building or land shall be used, and no building shall be erected for one or more of the following specified uses unless otherwise provided in this subchapter:
(A) Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive; administrative; professional; accounting; writing; clerical; stenographic; and drafting, subject to the limitations contain in § 153.088;
(B) Medical offices, including clinics;
(C) Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations and similar uses; drive-in facilities as an accessory use only;
(D) Personal service establishments including barber shops, beauty shops and health salons;
(E) Churches and private clubs;
(F) Municipal office buildings and uses;
(G) Other uses like the above uses; and
(H) Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the above-permitted uses.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 153.107 SPECIAL USES.
The following uses may be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use and subject further to the review and approval of the site plan and the uses by the Village Board after a hearing and recommendation is received from the Zoning Board for each use:
(A) An accessory use customarily related to a principal use authorized by this section, such as, but not limited to, a pharmacy or apothecary shop, stores limited to corrective garments or bandages or optical service, may be permitted;
(B) Mortuary establishments, when adequate assembly area is provided off-street for vehicles to be used in funeral processions; provided further that the 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 mortuary establishments;
(C) Publicly-owned buildings, telephone exchange buildings and public utility offices, but not including storage yards, transformer stations, substations or gas regulator stations; and
(D) Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to the above uses.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018)
§ 153.108 REQUIRED CONDITIONS.
(A) No interior display shall be visible from the exterior of the building;
(B) The outdoor storage of goods or material shall be prohibited; and
(C) Warehousing or indoor storage of goods or material, beyond that normally incident to the above permitted uses, shall be prohibited.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 153.109 SIZE AND DISTANCE REQUIREMENTS.
The following table provides minimum criteria for the issuance of building permits within the office zoning districts of the village.
Criteria | Office Zoning District | ||
OS | |||
Value | Notes | ||
Criteria | Office Zoning District | ||
OS | |||
Value | Notes | ||
Lot size (square feet) | 10,500 | ||
Maximum height of structure | |||
Height above grade (feet) | 35 | ||
Stories above grade | 2 | ||
Maximum percent of lot coverage | 35% | ||
Minimum width (feet) | 65 | ||
Minimum yard setback | a, c | ||
Front yard | 25 | ||
Rear | 25 | b | |
Side yard - at least one | 15 | ||
Side yard - total of both | 30 | ||
Parking spaces per 250 square feet of floor space | 1 | ||
(A) Lots abutting more than one public street shall maintain the minimum front and side yard setback for yards abutting a public street as shown on Illustration 8 in Appendix A.
(B) One-half the width of alleys at the rear of the lot may be considered in computing rear yard setbacks.
(C) All setbacks shall be the greater of the building height or the minimum yard setback for all permitted uses and approved special uses, other than single-family residential.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99
§ 153.110 BUILDING LIMITATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS.
Should property be developed or re-developed within the Office District bordering a residential district or Park District property, developers of the Office District shall construct an obscuring wall along property lines bordering residential districts and Park District property. The wall shall be not less than 54 inches tall. In lieu of a wall, a 54-inch tall chain link fence and ten-foot-wide greenbelt in accordance with § 153.199 may be provided along residential district borders. Should property be developed or re-developed within the Office District bordering an existing industrial district, the developers of the Office District property shall provide an obscuring wall constructed along property lines. Such a wall shall not be less than 72 inches in height and shall be in accordance with § 153.204. In lieu of a wall, a six-foot tall chain link fence and a 20-foot wide greenbelt may be provided along industrial district borders. The heavily planted greenbelt shall be in accordance with § 153.199.
(Ord. 18-108, passed 5-7-2018) Penalty, see § 10.99