This RO restricted office zoning district is intended to accommodate various types of office uses performing administrative, professional and personal services. These uses can serve as a transitional use between more intensive land uses such as commercial districts or major thoroughfares and less intensive land uses such as single- and two-family districts. It is also intended to allow for uses which do not generate large volumes of traffic, traffic congestion or parking problems.

(Ord. No. 123, § 15.0, 6-5-89)

In the RO district, no uses shall be permitted unless otherwise provided in this chapter except the following:

(1)

Office buildings and uses when goods or wares are not commercially created, exchanged or sold.

(2)

Public buildings and uses; public utility buildings but not including storage yards.

(3)

Business and private schools operated for a profit completely within an enclosed building.

(4)

Photographic studios.

(5)

Funeral homes.

(6)

Insurance offices, brokerage houses and real estate offices.

(7)

Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to the above principal permitted uses.

(8)

Off-street parking and loading in accordance with the requirements of Sec. 20-81.

(9)

On-site-use wind energy systems having a height of sixty-five (65) feet or less and meeting the requirements of sections 20-650 through 20-654.

(Ord. No. 123, § 15.1, 6-5-89; Ord. No. 225, § 22, 2-1-10)

The following shall be subject to a special use permit:

(1)

Office complexes (two (2) or more structures).

(2)

Medical and dental clinics.

(3)

Pharmacy or apothecary shops; stores limited to corrective garments or bandages, optical stores or restaurants; provided, however, they are located within the building to which they are an accessory and do not have a direct outside entrance for customer use.

(4)

Private service clubs, fraternal organizations and lodge halls subject to subsection 20-601(12).

(5)

Child care centers and day care centers subject to subsection 20-601(3).

(6)

Wind energy systems having a height of greater than sixty-five (65) feet on parcels or specialized easements containing at least one (1) acre and meeting the requirements of sections 20-650 through 20-654.

(Ord. No. 123, § 15.2, 6-5-89; Ord. No. 211, § 14, 2-5-07; Ord. No. 217, § 26, 7-7-08; Ord. No. 225, § 23, 2-1-10)

For permitted uses and uses subject to a special use permit, a site plan shall be submitted in accordance with section 20-116.

(Ord. No. 123, § 15.3, 6-5-89)

Area, height, bulk and placement requirements unless otherwise specified are as provided in article XVII, schedule of regulations.

(Ord. No. 123, § 15.4, 6-5-89)

Signs shall be as regulated in article XIX, as applicable.

(Ord. No. 209, § 11, 1-2-07)

Landscaping, screening and buffers shall be provided as regulated in article XVII, division 2, landscaping, screening and buffers, as applicable.

(Ord. No. 217, § 27, 7-7-08)