ARTICLE 11 - RESIDENTIAL, OFFICE, DISTRICT R-O#

Sec. 15-181. - Statement of intent.#

This district is intended to include suburban residential and professional office uses that provide a transition between residential and commercial areas, or in which commercial uses might be damaging to established residential neighborhoods. This district is intended to provide a mix of residential uses with certain specified business, such as personal and professional services, that can function efficiently without generating large volumes of vehicular traffic. This district's regulations and restrictions are intended to protect, preserve, and enhance residential uses while permitting uses characterized principally by consultative, personal, executive, and administrative services. Strong preference will be given to complementary uses which facilitate easy pedestrian circulation and encourage joint use of parking areas and shared vehicle ingress and egress. This district corresponds to areas on the comprehensive plan that transition from residential to commercial.

Sec. 15-182. - Uses and structures permitted by right (P) or by conditional use permit (CUP).#

Principal Uses and Structures#

(Ord. No. 5703, § 8, 5-2-23)

Sec. 15-183. - District standards.#

Principal Structure#

Minimum Lot Area (exclusive of road rights-of-ways, ponds, lakes, and rivers)

Maximum Impervious Coverage for Non-residential Uses

Minimum Lot Width (measured at setback line - exclusive of all roads)

Minimum Lot Frontage

Minimum Yard Setbacks (measured from property line)

Maximum Height*

*Exceptions to the height requirement include: church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas and radio aerials.§ Parapet walls may rise up to six feet above the finished roof surface.§

Accessory Structure#

Yard Requirements (setbacks are measured from property line)

Maximum Height*

*Exceptions to the height requirement include: church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas and radio aerials. Parapet walls may rise up to six feet above the finished roof surface.

Sec. 15-184. - Special conditions applicable to professional and medical offices.#

To protect the integrity of residential property from potentially adverse effects of professional and medical offices, the following conditions are imposed on those uses:

A. Driveways and parking areas. All driveways and off-street parking areas must be covered with one or more of the following materials: bituminous surface treatment, bituminous concrete, concrete or equivalent paving material approved by the zoning administrator. Parking areas adjacent to residential uses must be appropriately screened by a masonry wall or solid fence between five and seven feet high.§ The wall or fence must be maintained in sound condition and good appearance; it cannot have any openings or gates permitting vehicular entrance or egress to residential zoning districts. Dense vegetative screening with evergreens may be substituted for all or a portion of the fence or wall, provided that such screening is not unsightly during any season, does not create a fire hazard, and is equivalent to a wall or fence.

B. Maximum size of structure. No structure or group of structures may be of a size or character that creates the impression of general commercial development. Therefore, in addition to other limitations designed to achieve this end, no individual structure may have a gross floor area exceeding 7,500 square feet.§

C. Appearance. There cannot be any garbage or trash containers, exposed garbage or trash, or outdoor storage in any portion of any outdoor space.§ There shall be no outdoor display or outdoor storage.§

D. Lighting. Lighting must comply with article 25, Sec. 15-391 through 15-399.§

E. Hours of operation. Except for emergency activities, no use may be open for business between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.§

F. Amplification system. No public address systems, or devices for reproducing or amplifying voices or music, may be mounted outside any building or be audible beyond the property line, except for alarm systems intended to draw attention to an emergency condition such as smoke, fire, or intruders.

(Ord. No. 3539, § 1, 3-4-20)

Sec. 15-185. - Utilities.#

Distribution lines and service connections must be installed underground; provided, however, electric and telephone service may be provided from overhead lines when a lot abuts an existing major street or highway with pre-existing overhead electric or telephone distribution lines, but the service connections still must be installed underground.

Sec. 15-186. - Landscape requirements.#

Refer to Sec. 15-377 for landscape requirements.§