The OST office service transition districts are designed to accommodate small offices for sales, medical and other professions; personal services and institutional uses. These use districts are intended to provide land areas for concentrated locations of the uses permitted and to provide transitional land use areas that will serve as buffers between one-family residential districts and uses and commercial or industrial districts and uses.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 900)

In the OST 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 ordinance:

1.

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

2.

Medical offices including clinics;

3.

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

4.

Art, photographic and interior decorating studios;

5.

Personal service establishments including barbershops, beauty shops, health salons, fitness centers, tailor shops and shoe, watch or small electronic equipment repair;

6.

Laundry or dry cleaning establishments dealing directly with the consumer. Central dry cleaning plants servicing more than one retail outlet shall not be permitted;

7.

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

8.

Dependent housing for the elderly;

9.

Convalescent or nursing homes;

10.

Churches;

11.

Nursery school, day nurseries or day care centers;

12.

Private clubs or lodge halls, provided that main buildings shall have a minimum setback of 100 feet from a one-family residential district unless the district is separated from the use by a major or secondary thoroughfare or collector street;

13.

Mortuary establishments;

14.

Other uses similar to those listed above; and

15.

Accessory structures and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 905)

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, stores which supply corrective garments or bandages, optical services, office supplies and office service establishments shall be permitted subject to the following conditions:

1.

Such uses shall be permitted only in a building with not fewer than 50,000 square feet of floor area.

2.

The floor area devoted to such secondary uses in a building shall not exceed ten percent of the total floor area of the building.

3.

All secondary uses shall have at least one customer entrance from the interior of the principal building in which located.

4.

All secondary uses shall provide off-street parking spaces in accordance with one-half of the number of spaces required for the use by section 1900.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 910)

1.

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

2.

The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited.

3.

Warehousing or indoor storage of goods or materials, beyond that normally incidental to the uses permitted in this article, shall be prohibited.

4.

The use shall be subject to the review and approval of the site plan by the planning commission, pursuant to section 2810, site plan review.

5.

Loading and unloading space shall be provided as set forth in section 1910.

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 915)

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

(Ord. of 3-21-2005, § 920)