(A) Statement of purpose. The Office District is intended to permit office uses, office sales uses and certain personal services. This use district when not a part of a shopping center or other business district is intended to serve the function of land use transition between business districts and adjacent residential districts. Office districts normally will be located along major thoroughfares.
(B) Permitted uses. In an O Office District, no land, building, structure or premises except as otherwise provided in this chapter shall be erected, altered or used except for one or more of the following uses: the parenthetical number (000000) listed by each use is taken from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 1997 (published by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget) and is intended to provide a general guide of uses intended under each heading. However, if it is determined by the Planning Commission that the effects of a listed use may tend to extend beyond the site, then special land use approval shall be required:
(1) Office buildings for any of the following occupations: real estate; insurance; executive; administrative; professional; accounting; writing; clerical; stenographic; drafting; and sales subject to the limitations contained below in division (D) below;
(2) Public utility buildings, offices, telephone exchanges, but not including storage yards, transformer stations, substations or gas regulator stations;
(3) Churches;
(4) Government buildings and uses;
(5) Publicly owned and operated parks and recreational facilities;
(6) Other similar uses not permitted elsewhere, as determined by the Planning Commission; and
(7) Accessory signs in accordance with § 154.025.
(C) Special approval land uses. Special approval land uses are permitted subject to the procedures set forth in §§ 154.090 through 154.098, which include a public hearing. A site plan is required for all special approval uses (§ 154.150). Section 154.095 provides general standards to guide action by the Township Planning Commission. For a specific land use, additional standards are specified in §§ 154.099 through 154.134, and in this section below. The parenthetical number (000000) listed by each use is taken from the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 1997 (published by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget) and is intended to provide a general guide of uses intended under each heading:
(1) Commercial office supply stores and office service establishments, when a part of a large O Office District that by the nature of its size and complexity would require these attendant services;
(2) High-pressure gas or high-voltage (120 kV or greater) electric transmission lines as provided in § 154.099;
(3) Telephone exchanges, and static transformer stations, gas regulator stations and other utility provider buildings as provided in § 154.106;
(4) Nursery school, day nursery and child care center as provided in § 154.117;
(5) Medical office, including clinics, but not animal clinics;
(6) Banks, credit union offices, savings and loan associations (522110 - 522130), stock brokerage and similar uses;
(7) Art galleries and photographic studios, except those defined as adult entertainment uses, and interior decorating studios;
(8) Personal service establishments including barber shops (812111), beauty shops (812112), and health salons, except those defined as adult entertainment uses; and
(9) Communication towers as provided in § 154.134.
(D) Required conditions.
(1) The outdoor storage of goods or materials is prohibited.
(2) Warehousing or indoor storage of materials, beyond that actually incidental to the above permitted uses, is prohibited.
(3) Off-street parking and loading in accordance with § 154.023.
(4) Vehicle ingress and egress using local thoroughfares with less than a 66-foot right-of-way shall be prohibited, unless the property owner proposes a remedy approved by the Planning Commission as part of site plan review (See § 154.150.) The intent is to minimize the impact of commercial development on residential streets that are too narrow to handle increased traffic volumes. This provision is applicable when a site plan is presented for all-new construction on a parcel or for renovation affecting more than 50% of the footprint of the existing primary structure. In reviewing an applicant’s proposal for vehicular access to the property via adjacent local thoroughfares, the Planning Commission shall consider whether:
(a) The proposed plan for access results in a county-approved road width for the portion of the local thoroughfare to be used for access;
(b) The proposed plan provides turning lanes from and to an adjacent major, secondary or collector thoroughfare, thereby reducing the impact of increased traffic on the local residential thoroughfare;
(c) The proposed plan provides for safe, non-motorized traffic along adjacent portions of any local thoroughfare involved in the plan;
(d) The site plan shows measurements, construction details and planned signage relating to any proposed entrances and turning lanes; and
(e) In the case of a private road (local thoroughfare) being used, the applicant has proposed a workable, long-term method and/or schedule of providing for the future maintenance of any widened portion or portions of the local thoroughfare, implementation of which plan shall be a condition of approval.
(E) Area, height and placement requirements. The building, height, lot coverage, floor area, lot size and setbacks shall be determined in accordance with the schedule of regulations set forth in § 154.063.
(Ord. passed 6-28-2006)