Section 26-152, 26-152.1, 26-153, 26-154, 26-155, 26-159
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right28
- Office, general business, governmental, medical or professional
- Data processing centers and call centers
- Laboratories, research, experimental or testing, but not testing combustion engines or explosives
- Motion picture studio
- Photographic processing or blueprinting
- Printing and publishing
- College or university
- Business and professional schools and trade or vocational schools, but not involving combustion engines, heavy duty trucks, heavy equipment, construction machinery, or similar vehicles or equipment
- Conference or training center
- Performance arts center
- Hospitals and clinics
- Telecommunications towers and related facilities, in accordance with the standards set forth in sections 26-282 through 26-292
- Financial institutions, including savings and loans, loan companies, and banks, including drive-in windows, as long as driveway space is provided off-street for vehicles waiting for service
- Personal service establishment
- Catering or delicatessen business
- Dry-cleaning, pressing, or laundry pickup stations where no cleaning, pressing, or laundering is conducted on the premises (floor area no greater than one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet)
- Convenience store with less than five thousand (5,000) square feet of floor area, including gasoline pumps or drive-in window food sales
- Parking lots, parking spaces, and parking areas
- Printshop, with a floor area no greater than one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet
- Restaurants, but not drive-in restaurants
- Shoe repairing shops occupying not more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area
- Shops for the sale, service, or repair of home appliances, office machines, electrical and television and radio equipment occupying not more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of floor area
- Stores or shops for the conduct of retail business, including sale of accessories, beverages, drugs, food, furniture, garden supplies, groceries, hardware, hobby supplies, office supplies, paint, sporting goods, and stationery, and similar stores and shops, but not including any adult use
- Studios for artists, photographers, teachers, sculptors, or musicians
- Undertaking business or establishment or funeral homes
- Flower shops and greenhouses incidental thereto
- Hotel, motel, or motor lodge
- Health or fitness center
Conditional / special use2
- Any conditional use listed in the OS, Office Service District, except those uses already permitted and any industrial uses
- Telecommunications towers and related facilities that exceed one hundred forty (140) feet in height and temporary telecommunications towers and related facilities of any height
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. fence materials
Chain link, wire mesh, and similar fencing materials shall not be permitted in this district.
Height
- Maximum structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.50 ft
Structures may be constructed to a height of four stories or fifty (50) feet
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. plane from districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary30 degrees
no structure shall be constructed on the premises to penetrate a plane of thirty (30) degrees extending from the boundary of the district.
Lighting
- Maximum streetlight heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.25 ft
Streetlights, when provided, shall not exceed a height of twenty-five (25) feet.
Other
- Maximum retail-based development percentage30 pct
No more than thirty (30) percent of the net developable area shall be used for retail-based development
- Minimum buffer width with berm50 ft
If a berm is provided within the buffer, the width may be reduced to fifty (50) feet.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area30 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum area for a Business Park District shall be thirty (30) acres
- Minimum natural buffer width100 ft
Along the boundary of the district, there shall be a minimum natural buffer of one hundred (100) feet.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. percentage25 pct
No less than twenty-five (25) percent of the gross acreage, or twenty (20) percent of the net developable area of the overall district, whichever is greater, shall be set aside as open space.
- Minimum structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary100 ft
No structure shall be located closer than one hundred (100) feet to the boundary of the district.
- Minimum thoroughfare buffer width50 ft
The buffer shall be no less than fifty (50) feet in width.
- No direct access to roads outside the districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
No use shall have direct access to any road outside of the district.
- Outside storage prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No outside storage of equipment, materials, or supplies shall be permitted within the district, except that an outdoor trash receptacle may be used as long as it is enclosed within an area which is completely screened from view and which is architecturally compatible with the buildings on site.
- Underground utilities required
All utility lines shall be constructed underground.
From the ordinance
Structures may be constructed to a height of four stories or fifty (50) feet, although no structure shall be constructed on the premises to penetrate a plane of thirty (30) degrees extending from the boundary of the district. All BP Districts shall be developed with public utilities.
Use details
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"Facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, utility cabinets and pedestals, and the like for normal electrical power distribution or communication service, pipelines or conduits for electrical gas, sewer, or water service, and pipelines, conduits and transmission lines located within the suburban service area",
"Bakeries occupying not more than one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet of floor area and provided all products produced on the premises shall be sold at retail on the premises",
"Hospital or clinic for small animals, dogs, cats, birds, and the like, provided that such hospital or clinic and any treatment rooms, cages, pens, or kennels be maintained within a completely enclosed, soundproof building and that such hospital or clinic be operated in such a way as to produce no objectionable noise or odors outside its walls"
]
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