CHAPTER 1130
U-8A Office Building and Research District
U-8A Office Building and Research District
1130.01 Intent.
1130.02 Permitted uses.
1130.03 Area, yard and height regulations.
1130.04 Off-street parking and loading facilities.
1130.05 Design and performance standards.
1130.06 Site development plans.
CROSS REFERENCES
Districts established - see P. & Z. 1111.01
Classification of uses - see P. & Z. 1111.02
Existing nonconforming uses - see P. & Z. 1147.01
1130.01 INTENT.
This Chapter (Class U-8A District) is established, among other purposes, to control and regulate permitted uses in this District and other similar uses. The intent is to regulate and encourage limited manufacturing, research and development laboratories, office complexes and wholesale offices within close proximity to interstate transportation and developed in such a manner that all buildings will function as a unified high quality science and office park. The development standards are designed to ensure a park-like environment not only for the benefit of uses within the District but to protect and harmonize with the surrounding residential areas of the City. (Ord. 2018-94. Passed 10-21-19.)
1130.02 PERMITTED USES.
(a) Buildings and land in the Class U-8A District shall be used and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered or intended only for the uses specifically designated as Class U-8A uses in Section 1111.02; other similar harmonious and compatible uses may be determined by the Commission and approved by Council. No retail sales are permitted in this District.
(b) Accessory uses related to the principal use of the building authorized in Section 1111.02 are permitted as follows:
(1) Restaurants or lunchrooms, beauty and barber shops, mail services, blueprinting and other services found by the Commission to be similar, harmonious and compatible with the principal building use and which will not impair other permitted uses in the building. No accessory use or combination of accessory uses set forth in this subsection shall exceed twenty percent (20%) of the gross square footage of the building.
(2) Parking areas and garages, loading areas, enclosed maintenance and storage facilities and antennas permitted in Section 1129.02.
(3) Wireless telecommunications facilities subject to the following provisions:
A. Wireless telecommunications facilities shall only be permitted as an accessory use provided such facilities are located on the roof of the building containing the principal permitted use. Antennas may be mounted on the walls of a penthouse, except where the exterior wall of the penthouse is flush with the exterior wall of the building. Antennas, other than dipole or omni-directional antennas, which are mounted on a penthouse shall not extend above the penthouse and shall be screened with panels or other screening devices designed to match the appearance of the penthouse wall and reduce visibility.
B. Wireless telecommunications antennas, including dipole antennas over two inches (2") in diameter, and support structures mounted directly on the roof shall not extend higher than twenty feet (20') above the roof and shall be set back from the parapet or roof edge a minimum of one foot for each one foot in elevation above the top of the parapet. Dipole antennas which are two inches (2") or less in diameter may be attached to the rear (inside) of the parapet wall provided such antennas do not extend more than three feet (3') above the top of said parapet wall. All such antennas shall be colored to minimize visibility.
C. Roof mounted wireless telecommunications facilities shall be designed to withstand wind loads of ninety (90) miles per hour.
D. Where wireless telecommunications facilities are proposed to be located on a building where such facilities already exist, the applicant shall provide assurances that the proposed facilities will not interfere with the receipt or transmission of signals by the existing facilities.
E. Equipment cabinets, switching equipment, cables, and other devices associated with wireless telecommunications facilities which are located on roofs shall be screened from view from the public right-of-way.
F. A building permit shall be required for the installation of each wireless communications facility. The building permit fee for wireless communications facilities shall be as set forth in Section 1329.03.
G. The Building Commissioner may, where it is determined that proposed wireless telecommunications facilities comply with all of the criteria set forth herein, issue a permit for the installation of such facilities without referral to the Commission, otherwise applications for wireless telecommunications facilities shall be referred to the Commission for consideration.
(5) Car washes provided that:
A. No washing or detailing activities are conducted outside of the building.
B. There is no advertising or signage associated with the car wash.
C. Washing is by hand only and no automated wash systems are used.
D. The wash area does not exceed six hundred (600) square feet.
(Ord. 2018-94. Passed 10-21-19.)
1130.03 AREA, YARD AND HEIGHT REGULATIONS.
(a) The ground area occupied by the buildings shall not exceed the following percentages of the total area of the lot: fifteen percent (15%) for a three-story (3) building; twenty-five percent (25%) for any building with less than three (3) stories but more than one (1) story; and thirty-five (35%) percent for a one-story (1) building.
(b) All buildings shall be set back from any public street or highway at least one hundred feet (100'). However, all buildings with frontage on Richmond Road shall be set back at least two hundred feet (200').
(c) Side and rear yards, where adjoining a residential district with no street intervening, shall be at least one hundred feet (100'); otherwise, side and rear yards shall be at least thirty-five feet (35'). An evergreen hedge or other planting or fence may be required by the Commission along property or street lines.
(d) Height Regulations. Buildings shall not exceed forty-two feet (42'), exclusive of towers, cornices or similar decorative features.
(e) The minimum lot area for any development under the U-8A District shall be two (2) acres with a minimum frontage on a public street of two hundred feet (200') in width.
(f) Not less than ten percent of the total land area and all required yards in which no off-street parking is permitted shall be developed as lawn or planted area or maintained in an orderly wooded state.
(g) In U-8A developments, portions of the front, side or rear yards may be used for parking according to the following schedule:
Type and Location of Yard | Setback (ft.) |
Front, side or rear yard along Richmond Road | 100 |
Front, side or rear yard along other streets | 35 |
Side or rear yard abutting nonresidential | 10 |
Side or rear yard abutting residential | 50 |
(Ord. 2018-94. Passed 10-21-19.)
Loading...