Land and buildings in the Suburban Office and Institutional District (SO) shall be used only for the following purposes:
(a) Administrative and Business Offices. Administrative offices primarily engaged in general administration, supervision, purchasing, accounting and other management functions and business offices carrying on no retail trade with the general public and having no stock of goods maintained for sale to customers, including financial services, real estate and insurance.
(b) Professional Offices. Professional offices engaged in providing tangible and intangible services to the general public, involving both persons and their possessions, including: offices of physicians and surgeons, dentists and dental surgeons, osteopathic physicians, and chiropractors, medical and dental laboratories, health and allied services, legal services, design services including engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, graphic arts and interior design, accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services, and professional services not elsewhere classified.
(c) Institution. Institutions providing social, cultural, educational and health services to member agencies, organizations and individuals or to the general public, including: hospitals, elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, vocational schools, professional schools, libraries, museums and art galleries, and religious organizations.
(d) Organizations and Associations. Organizations and associations organized on a profit-making or nonprofit-making basis, for the promotion of membership interests, including: business associations, professional membership organizations, labor unions and similar labor organizations, civic, social and fraternal associations, political organizations, charitable organizations, and nonprofit membership organizations not elsewhere classified.
(e) Residential. Residential Dwelling ancillary and subordinate to a principal permitted use.
(f) Churches. Churches and other similar places of worship and parish houses provided said use occupies a lot of not less than three (3) acres.
(1) The minimum lot width is three hundred (300 feet);
(2) The lot is adequate to accommodate the required off-street parking requirements of the church in accordance with Chapter 1185;
(3) The church building is set back from any adjacent residential property line a distance equal to or greater than the height of the structure exclusive of the steeple or spire;
(4) The church lot is accessible to a major arterial in a manner that does not require the passage of traffic through local residential streets; and
(5) There is one (1) acre or more per one hundred (100) seats or similar accommodations in the main assembly hall.
Accessory living quarters may be provided on the church lot as a conditional use. The location, density, and the additional lot area required for such uses shall be subject to approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Accessory recreational uses may be provided on the church lot as a conditional use subject to approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(Ord. 41-01. Passed 8-20-01.)