(A) Purpose. The Business Park District is designed to accommodate large scale office, light fabrication, assembly, distribution and mixed-use facilities which are located adjacent to regional freeways or major arterials and have a high level of site and building facade design.
(B) Permitted uses.
(1) Single- or multi-tenant office buildings for professional, administrative, clerical or sales purposes;
(2) All uses permitted in the
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, Limited Manufacturing District, excepting outside storage, developed and operated in compliance with division (E) hereof;
(3) Facilities with mixed uses including offices, warehousing, sales, repair, fabrication and distribution or any combination thereof;
(4) Research laboratories for scientific research, investigation, testing or experimentation which may include prototype product development;
(5) Financial institutions, with or without drive-thru windows, whose sum total of land area does not exceed 10% of the developable land area of the business park;
(6) Express package delivery;
(7) Motion picture production;
(8) Restaurants, except drive-ins and those with drive-thru windows, whose sum total of land area does not exceed 10% of the developable land area within the business park;
(9) Hotels and motels, including dining and meeting rooms, whose sum total of land area does not exceed 20% of the developable land area of the business park;
(10) Accessory structures and uses; and
(11) Day care centers, when enclosed within a larger building and serving only the needs of that building.
(C) Special exception uses.
(1) Stand-alone day care centers;
(2) Heliports;
(3) Public utilities and service uses;
(4) Parking structures;
(5) Colleges and universities;
(6) Broadcast studios; and
(D) Yard requirements. Yard requirements for the BP, Business Park District are as follows: (All standards are minimums except as noted.)
(1) Lot size: 1.0 acre.
(2) Frontage: 150 feet.
(3) Setbacks:
(a) Front yard: 50 feet.
(b) Side yards: 25 feet.
(c) Rear yard: 50 feet.
(d) Corner side yard: The corner side yard setback is determined by measuring the average established setback of the structures within the same block between 2 intersecting streets. This calculation would equal the established front yard setback for the side street.
(4) Maximum structure height: 65 feet.
(5) Maximum lot coverage for structures: 40% total.
(6) Minimum district size: 5 acres.
(E) Development conditions.
(2) The development shall be a unified and organized arrangement of structures, parking areas, walks, lighting and appurtenant facilities.
(3) A BP district may only be established on a tract of land that is in single ownership or under other means of unified control.
(4) The proposed development shall be compatible with the properties and uses of properties immediately adjacent to the proposed development.
(5) The locations of a BP district shall be on property which has direct access to major arterials or freeways, designed to carry the additional automobile and truck traffic generated by such a development. All developments shall be internally accessed.
(6) All structures must present a decorative facade on all sides which face roadways, parking areas or can be viewed from the district boundary.
(7) Provision shall be made at points of ingress, egress and within the district to ensure a free and safe flow of vehicular traffic.
(8) All service areas for loading and unloading vehicles, and all areas for collection of trash and garbage shall be properly screened using a combination of natural plantings and fences or masonry walls which are architecturally consistent with the principal building(s) so as to conceal such activities from all public street and parking area views.
(9) The development will not impose an undue burden on public services and facilities, such as fire and police protection.
(10) The activity within the district shall create no noise perceptible on the district boundary lines and no smoke, heat or glare.
(11) All on-premise signage, both for individual businesses within the park and for the park itself, shall be limited to monument signs only.
(a) Signs for individual buildings shall be limited to a maximum 6 feet in height and 50 square feet in area, except for signage facing limited access highways which may be a maximum 10 feet in height and 75 square feet in area.
(b) Signs identifying the park shall be limited to a maximum 10 feet in height and 75 square feet in area with a 25-foot setback from the public right-of-way.
(12) In addition to the standard landscape requirements of this chapter the following shall apply:
(a) A minimum of 20% of the building site shall be in open space. Open space located in a front, corner side yard and the front 1/3 of a side yard of a property shall be landscaped to include the following:
1. Ground cover, including grass;
2. Shrubs, vines and/or hedges; and
3. Individual trees or grouped trees and/or natural vegetation in the form of wooded areas with a minimum of 1 tree per 5,000 square feet of open space.
(b) Non-living durable materials commonly used in landscaping may also be included, such as, but not limited to rocks, pebbles, sand, berms, ponds, walkways or fences. Landscaped areas within parking areas, such as control islands, shall not be included for purposes of calculating the 20% open space requirement.
(c) All surface drainage retention ponds shall be free form in shape (curvilinear rather than rectilinear) and be incorporated into the overall landscape design of the park or individual lot which it serves.
(d) Where a BP district abuts residentially zoned land or land shown as residential on the adopted land use plan for the city, there shall be a minimum 20 foot greenway consisting of a combination of trees, shrubs, and ground cover. At least 50% of the greenway frontage abutting residential land shall contain shrubs and trees with a minimum of 1 tree for every 40 lineal feet of greenway. An earthen berm(s) or ornamental masonry wall or wood fence may be incorporated into the greenway. However, if a wall or fence is used, vegetative landscaping shall be placed between the wall or fence and the property line to provide visual relief.
(e) A combination of trees and/or natural plan groupings shall be planted in front yards along all principal interior roadways at intervals no greater than 75 feet.
(13) No principal building shall be constructed within 50 feet of the BP district boundary.
(14) No materials, inventory, products, equipment or other personal property shall be stored outside.
(15) No free-standing restaurant, hotel, or motel may be constructed within an approved BP district until at least 50,000 square feet of office, laboratory, assembly, light fabrication, or warehousing structures have been constructed.
(F) Supplemental regulations.
(1) Special flood hazard area regulations: §§ 151.120 et seq.
(2) Wetlands Conservation District regulations: §§ 151.145 et seq.
(3) Air Space Control Area regulations: §§ 151.210 et seq.
(4) Accessory structures and swimming pool requirements: § 151.225.
(5) Landscape and screening requirements: § 151.226.
(6) Permitted obstructions in required yards: § 151.227.
(7) Fence requirements: § 151.228.
(8) Intersection visibility area requirements: § 151.229.
(9) Primary street setback requirements: § 151.229.
(10) Off-street parking and loading requirements: § 151.231.
(11) Sign regulations: § 151.234.
(1979 Code, § 151.057) (Ord. 4370, passed 7-20-1998; Am. Ord. 4462, passed 1-13-2000
; Am. Ord. 5175, passed 7-20-2009)
Penalty, see § 151.999