In the OS Office/Service District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following uses, unless otherwise provided in this Zoning Code:
(a) Office buildings for any of the following occupations: executive, administrative, professional, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic and drafting, subject to limitations contained in Section 1268.03.
(b) Medical offices, including clinics only for human care, solely serving patients on an out-patient basis.
(c) Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, loan companies, insurance offices, real estate offices and similar uses.
(d) Drive-in or drive-through facilities, when accessory or incidental to the above uses.
(e) Commercial television and radio towers accessory to uses permitted in this section.
(f) Funeral homes, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Sufficient assembly area for vehicles to be used in a funeral procession shall be provided in addition to required off-street parking. Sufficiency of such assembly area shall be subject to the discretion of the Planning Commission and the Township Board.
(2) The site shall be located so as to have one property line abutting a major thoroughfare of 120 feet existing or proposed right of way.
(3) Adequate ingress and egress shall be provided to and from said major thoroughfare.
(4) No building shall be located closer than fifty feet to the outer perimeter of the District when said District abuts any One-Family Residential District.
(5) Loading and unloading areas used by ambulance, hearse or other such service vehicles shall be obscured from all residential view with a six-foot high masonry wall.
(g) Child care centers, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Such centers shall comply with applicable laws of the State of Michigan or the Federal Government.
(2) All outdoor play areas provided shall be fenced on all sides with a minimum of a four-foot high fence.
(3) The site shall be located so as to have one property line abutting a major or secondary thoroughfare and shall have all access provided to said thoroughfare.
(h) An accessory building or use customarily related to a use permitted in this District, such as an apothecary shop, stores limited to corrective garments or bandages or an optical company without outdoor display or advertising.
(i) Publicly-owned buildings, public utility buildings, telephone exchange buildings and repeater stations, electric transformer stations and substations, and gas regulator stations (without storage yards), when operation requirements necessitate the locating of said building within the District in order to serve the immediate vicinity. The Planning Commission and the Township Board may require walls and landscaping in order to screen such uses where they deem the same to be necessary.
(j) Private or public athletic clubs, health spas or figure salons, when conducted within a completely enclosed building and the proposed use is of such size and character that it will be in harmony with the orderly development of the immediate area and is designed to eliminate any possible nuisance which might be adverse to occupants of any other nearby permitted uses.
(k) Veterinary clinics and hospitals, including facilities for overnight keeping of animals, subject to the following conditions:
(1) The site shall be located so as to have one property line abutting a major thoroughfare of 120 feet existing or proposed right of way.
(2) All activities must be conducted within a totally enclosed main building with no outdoor kennels, cages or runs.
(3) A separate entrance must be provided for admittance and discharge of animals from the hospital or clinic so as not to interfere with common pedestrian hallways and entrances.
(l) Other uses similar to the above uses.
(m) Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses.
(Ord. 260-A-58. Passed 8-22-83; Ord. 260-A-80. Passed 11-13-84.)
(n) Restaurants or other similar places serving food or beverages, excluding catering and banquet halls and drive-in/drive-through fast-food restaurants, subject to the following conditions:
(1) Such restaurant shall be an integral part of and wholly contained within the office structure of which it is a part.
(2) Such restaurant shall not be permitted exterior signage as a use separate from the office structure of which it is a part.
(Ord. 260-A-292. Passed 8-18-97.)
(o) Business or professional schools, operated for profit, subject to the following minimum conditions:
(1) The site shall be located so as to have one property line abutting a major thoroughfare of 120 feet existing or proposed right-of-way and all ingress and egress shall be to and from such thoroughfare.
(2) The Department of Planning and Community Development shall determine that off-street parking facilities are adequate to accommodate such use.
(Ord. 260-A-415. Passed 12-5-05.)