§ 157.075 O - OFFICE DISTRICTS.

   (A)   Intent. The O Office District is intended to accommodate uses such as administrative offices, banks, and personal services. Office Districts generally serve as a transitional area between residential and commercial districts or to buffer residential neighborhoods from arterial roadways.

   (B)   Permitted uses. In an O Office District, no building or land shall be used or erected, except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this chapter:

      (1)   Offices for uses, including administrative, professional, physicians, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, psychiatrists, psychologists, real estate, legal, accounting, writing, clerical, stenographic, and drafting;

      (2)   Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and similar uses with or without drive-through facilities and 24-hour ready tellers;

      (3)   Personal service establishments, performing on-site services, including barber shops, beauty shops, and health salons;

      (4)   Publicly-owned libraries, parks, parkways, recreational facilities, court buildings, post offices, community centers, civic centers, and municipal buildings;

      (5)   Churches, places of worship, and related facilities;

      (6)   Colleges, universities, and similar institutions of higher learning;

      (7)   Accessory essential public services and structures, excluding buildings and storage yards;

      (8)   Accessory and uses buildings and structures customarily incidental to the above uses, as defined in § 157.008 and the standards of §§ 157.035 through 157.039; and

      (9)   Safety compliance facility, see requirements in § 157.130(B)(32).

   (C)   Special land uses. The following uses may be permitted upon review and approval in accordance with the general standards for all special land uses in § 157.122 and the standards for the specific use in § 157.130:

      (1)   Essential public service buildings, not including storage yards, such as telephone exchange buildings, transformer stations, substations, or gas regulator stations;

      (2)   Substance abuse treatment facilities;

      (3)   General and specialty hospitals and urgent medical care centers;

      (4)   Nursing and convalescent homes;

      (5)   Uses of the same nature or class as the majority of the uses listed in this District as either a permitted use or a special land use, but not listed elsewhere in this chapter, as determined by the Village Council, following a Planning Commission and/or Zoning Commission, as required, public hearing and recommendation. The determination shall be based on the standards of § 157.032. Any use not listed and not found to be similar is prohibited in this Zoning District;

      (6)   Funeral homes or mortuary establishments; and

      (7)   Accessory uses, buildings, and structures customarily incidental to an approved special land use permit are permitted without a separate special land use permit, however, a separate special land use permit shall be required for any use or storage of hazardous materials and any fuel storage tanks.

   (D)   Required conditions.

      (1)   No interior display shall be visible from the exterior of the building.

      (2)   The outdoor storage of goods or materials shall be prohibited.

      (3)   Warehousing or indoor storage of goods or materials, beyond that normally incident to the above-permitted uses, shall be prohibited.

   (E)   Additional site development standards. All permitted and special land uses shall comply with all applicable provisions of this chapter, including those listed below as a reference guide:

      (1)   Section 157.008, “definitions”;

      (2)   Sections 157.025 through 157.057, “General Regulations” for standards on a variety of items such as: calculation of buildable lot; regulations for single-family dwellings; illegal dwellings; accessory uses, temporary buildings, and structures; parking and repair of vehicles; swimming pools; fences; reception antennas; limitations on clearing and grading site; and the like;

      (3)   Section 157.009, “schedule of regulations” (minimum lot area, lot width, setbacks, maximum height, and the like);

      (4)   Sections 157.145 through 157.151, “Parking and Loading”;

      (5)   Sections 157.165 through 157.176, “Landscaping Standards”;

      (6)   Sections 157.190 through 157.204, “Site Plan Review and Approval”;

      (7)   Sections 157.260 through 157.268, “Condominium Development Standards”;

      (8)   Ch. 153, Subdivision Control; and

      (9)   Ch. 154, Signs.

(Ord. 259, passed 10-24-1995; Ord. passed 2-1-2012; Ord. 469, passed 2-8-2022) Penalty, see § 157.999