The purpose of the open space (O) district is to provide appropriate locations in the community for a wide range of open space uses, such as parks and playgrounds, cultural and educational facilities, public infrastructure systems, environmentally sensitive areas such as floodplains, and agriculture.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

A.

Parks, playgrounds, and botanical gardens;

B.

Cemeteries;

C.

Drainage basins;

D.

Environmentally sensitive lands, including wetlands, reservoirs, and floodplains;

E.

Golf courses;

F.

Growing and harvesting of agricultural crops; and

G.

Livestock grazing.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

Those uses and structures incidental to the open space use of the land including, required loading and unloading facilities; parking lots; the storage and use of fuels; agricultural out buildings and other uses and structures, which are determined by the planning director to be incidental to the open space use.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

A.

Public and quasi-public uses of an educational or religious type, including public and parochial elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, nursery schools; private nonprofit schools and colleges; churches, parsonages, parish houses, monasteries, convents and other religious institutions.

B.

Public uses of an administrative, recreational public service or cultural type including city, county, state or Federal administrative centers, libraries, museums, art galleries, police and fire stations, and other pubic buildings, structures and facilities.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

No development shall be constructed on any lot or site in this district until a site plan has been submitted and approved consistent with Chapter 17.54.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

Also see Exhibit 38-1.

A.

Site Area. The minimum site area shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet.

B.

Lot Frontage and Depth. No requirement.

C.

Building Height. The maximum height shall be forty-five (45) feet. The maximum height of accessory structures shall be thirty-five (35) feet.

Exhibit 38-1: Development Standards

D.

Yards.

1.

Front: Twenty-five (25) feet.

2.

Side: No requirement, except where the O district abuts a R district in which case the side yard requirement shall be ten feet.

3.

Rear: No requirement, except where the O district abuts a R district in which case the rear yard requirement shall be ten feet.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

A.

Front Yards: Fences, walls and hedges shall not exceed three feet in height. A fence or wall may be four feet in height if more than fifty (50) percent of the structure is see-through.

B.

Rear and Side Yards: Fences, walls, and hedges shall not exceed seven feet in height along any side or rear property line.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

Off-street parking shall comply with the standards contained in Chapter 17.68.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)

Signage shall comply with the standards contained in Chapter 17.69.

(Ord. No. 579 , § 1, 4-25-2011)