The OR office research districts are designed to provide for large offices, technology or research buildings in areas which have significant highway or road visibility, thereby encouraging uses which have a relatively high value per acre of land and that will supplement the township's tax and employment base.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1000)

In the OR districts, 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 ordinances:

1.

Any use which is charged with the principal function of research, testing, design, technical training or experimental product development, subject to the following:

a.

Manufacturing shall not be an assembly-line type and shall be limited to prototype equipment, products or materials for experimental purposes that are not generally for sale. Repair work shall be limited to prototypes, or products being tested, designed, or experimentally produced, and shall not be for customer services; and

b.

Warehousing or storage of products for distribution to outlets at other locations shall not be permitted as an accessory use;

2.

Data processing and computer centers;

3.

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

4.

Medical offices, including clinics, hospitals and medical laboratories;

5.

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

6.

Publicly owned buildings and public utility offices; not including storage yards, transformer stations, substations, gas regulator stations or post offices;

7.

Other uses similar to the above uses; and

8.

Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to any principal use permitted.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1005)

The following uses shall be permitted, subject to the conditions hereinafter imposed for each use:

1.

A secondary use which is accessory to and located in the same building as a principal use permitted by this article, such as, but not limited to: pharmacies, apothecary shops, stores limited to corrective garments or bandages, optical services, restaurants, barbershops, beauty shops, physical fitness clubs, nursery schools, day nurseries and day care centers subject to the conditions of section 910.

2.

Public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings, electric transformer stations and substations without storage yards; gas regulator stations with service yards, but without storage yards; water and sewage pumping stations.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1010)

1.

Uses permitted in this article shall be subject to the conditions of section 915.

2.

Uses permitted in this article shall also be subject to the conditions of section 1410, service drives.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1015)

Area, height, bulk and placement requirements, unless otherwise specified, shall be as provided in article 18, schedule of regulations.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 1020)