O-2
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right14
- Business offices of advertising, real estate, insurance, commercial or industrial establishments
- Child care education centers in connection with public or private elementary schools or religious uses
- Day-care centers
- Finance agency offices, banks
- Florists retail
- Funeral homes
- Governmental centers and offices and other public uses and structures appropriate to the character of the district, necessary to its servicing, or requiring location within the district
- Medical, optical and dental offices and clinics; legal, engineering, architectural and similar professional offices, accounting, auditing and bookkeeping service offices
- Museums, art galleries, historic exhibits, botanical gardens, parks, recreational facilities and the like, when operated by a public agency or not for profit
- Offices in which goods, wares or merchandise are not commercially created, displayed, stored, exchanged or sold
- Offices of miscellaneous business services such as consumer credit reporting agencies, mailing list and stenographic services, business and management consulting services
- Public utilities business offices
- Veterinary establishments, except for boarding of animals
- Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted, except as provided below
Conditional / special use13
- Assembly uses
- Cemeteries
- Communication towers standard process
- Fiber-optics transmission facilities
- Hair care centers including barber shops and beauty salons
- Home-based wildlife rehabilitation facilities
- Hospitals and sanitariums
- Housing for seniors and disabled persons
- Public schools, colleges and universities, and private schools, colleges and universities having similar academic curriculums
- Single room occupancy facility
- Television or other broadcasting stations
- Wildlife rehabilitation centers
- Wind energy conversion systems, freestanding
Accessory3
- ethical pharmacies
- dental laboratories
- fitting and sale of eyeglasses, hearing aids, prosthetic appliances
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Accident Potential Zone 1 compatibility
No use or structure shall be permitted on any property located within Accident Potential Zone 1 (APZ-1) unless such use is designated as compatible in APZ-1 in Table 2 of section 1804.
- Minimum yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential or apartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
When a zoning lot within an O-2 Office District adjoins a residential or apartment district without an intervening street, alley or body of water over twenty-five (25) feet in width, a twenty-foot minimum yard shall be required along all lot lines adjoining the residential or apartment district. Category IV landscape screening shall be required within the yard area.
- Screening adjacent to hotel districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
When a zoning lot within an O-2 Office District adjoins a hotel district without an intervening street, alley or body of water over twenty-five (25) feet in width, Category I landscape screening shall be required within the yard area.
Signage
- Freestanding sign restrictions
No establishment having a frontage of less than one hundred (100) feet shall have a freestanding sign. No establishment having a frontage of at least one hundred (100) feet but less than or equal to two hundred (200) feet shall have a freestanding sign exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet in area per face, and no establishment having a frontage of more than two hundred (200) feet shall have a freestanding sign exceeding seventy-five (75) square feet in area per face.
- Maximum sign area150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No sign shall exceed one hundred fifty (150) square feet in area.
- Sign frequency
For each forty (40) feet of frontage and for each eighty (80) feet of lot line adjoining a street, but not constituting frontage, not more than one (1) sign and not more than thirty-two (32) square feet of signage shall be permitted.
From the ordinance
The following chart lists those uses permitted within the O-1 and O-2 Office Districts. No portion of any building or other structure located within an O-2 Office District shall exceed seventy-five (75) feet.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Offices of nonprofit organizations, such as professional organizations, civic, social and fraternal associations, political organizations, religious organizations, and labor unions; provided, however, that no hiring halls shall be permitted in this district"
]
}
}