(A) Purpose. The O-1 District is designed to accommodate offices, institutional buildings and multiple-family structures in a mutually advantageous setting.
(B) Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the O-1 Office District:
(1) Offices, business, professional and governmental, permitted only on ground floor, but not including offices used for other display, sale, lease, delivery, processing, storage, manufacturing, servicing or advertising of merchandise, commodities or other chattels;
(2) Clubs and lodges, private;
(3) Multiple-family dwelling units at ground level or above ground floor office uses;
(4) Funeral homes and mortuaries;
(5) Institutions, as follows, including all uses, structures and facilities customarily incidental to their operation:
(a) Colleges and universities;
(b) Elementary and high schools;
(c) Institutions for the mentally handicapped;
(d) Day, nursery and other schools for the care and instruction of children;
(e) Churches, chapels, temples and synagogues, including rectories, parsonages and parish houses;
(f) Hospitals and related health care facilities;
(g) Nursing homes;
(h) Libraries, art galleries and museums;
(i) Philanthropic and charitable institutions, but not including businesses sponsored by such institutions, except such as are accessory or incidental to and located in the same building as such institution proper; and
(j) Single-family dwellings.
(6) Accessory uses.
(C) Special uses. Special uses may be allowed in the O-1 Office District as provided in § 159.045.
(D) Lot size requirements.
(1) No lot in an O-1 Office District shall contain an area less than 6,250 square feet or have a width at the building line less than 50 feet.
(2) The setback, parking requirements and lot coverage (per division (D)(3) below) must be met for all proposed dwelling units. There shall be no minimum lot area per dwelling unit requirement in this district.
(3) If a lot or tract has less area or width than herein required and was of record at the time of the effective date of this chapter, that lot may be used for any purpose permitted in the O-1 Office District.
(E) Yard requirements.
(1) Front yard. There shall be a front yard having a depth of not less than 25 feet.
(2) Side yard.
(a) There shall be two side yards, one on each side of the building, neither of which shall have a width of less than five feet.
(b) On a corner lot there shall be a front yard on each street side of such lot.
(3) Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not less than 35 feet.
(F) Height requirements. The maximum height of all principal buildings and structures shall not exceed 35 feet and the maximum height of all accessory buildings and structures shall not exceed 25 feet.
(Prior Code, § 46-49) (Ord. eff. 1-15-1972; Ord. 91-1(A), passed 1-7-1991; Ord. 93-4, passed 4-5-1993)