Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right6
- Offices which deal primarily in professional services in which goods, wares, and merchandise are not commercially created, sold, or exchanged
- Administrative and business offices
- Medical and dental buildings
- Existing residential buildings
- Accessory structures and uses, not including warehouses, on the same site as a permitted use
- Signs subject to Chapter 6
Conditional / special use14
- Office use of buildings once used for residential purposes
- Mortuaries
- Art galleries
- Gas and electric transmission lines, electrical transmission and distribution substations, gas regulator stations, communications equipment buildings, public service pumping stations, and elevated pressure tanks
- New residential uses and expansion of existing residential uses resulting in new family dwelling units or increased boardinghouse capacity
- Public and private charitable institutions, general hospitals, sanitariums, and nursing and convalescent homes
- Public parks, playgrounds, and other public recreation facilities
- Private clubs and lodges
- Churches and other religious institutions
- Public and private libraries and museums
- Accessory structures and uses for conditional uses (enclosed restaurants, tobacco/candy/newspaper/magazine counters, prescription pharmacies)
- Dance studios
- Banks, savings and loans, credit unions, and other financial institutions
- Beauty shops and barbershops with accessory retail sales not exceeding 30% of total revenues
Accessory2
- Accessory structures and uses, not including warehouses, on the same site as a permitted use
- Accessory retail sales for beauty shops/barbershops (conditional)
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. retail sales limit for beauty shops/barbershops30 pct
Accessory retail sales shall not exceed 30% of the total revenues for the business in any period.
- Minimum corner lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.6,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The minimum lot area for corner lots shall be 6,000 square feet.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. exception for R zone frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
Where the frontage is located partially in any R zone block, the front yard requirement of the R zone shall apply; where two or more lots in a block have been improved with buildings, the minimum required front yard setback shall be the average of all improved lots.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.15 ft
The maximum height for accessory buildings shall be 15 feet.
- Drive-through restaurants prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Enclosed restaurants (no drive-through restaurants) are allowed as accessory to conditional uses.
- Warehouses prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. as accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office.
Accessory structures and uses, not including warehouses, on the same site as a permitted use.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. encroachment approval
The Community Development Director may approve an encroachment into the setback with conditions when the adjacent property is located in any PO, C, or I zone.
- Zero side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for common interior lot line
A zero setback shall be permitted along the common interior lot line of structures which are developed as a unit.
From the ordinance
The Professional Office zone is intended to provide opportunities for the location of professional and commercial offices and their related uses...