A. Purpose. The CO zone is intended to provide for the use of designated properties for professional offices and limited commercial facilities to serve the residents of the town. It includes those uses related to medical, professional, financial, administrative, and interrelated uses. This zone is intended to prohibit most retail commercial uses which, more properly, belong in other commercial zones. It is also intended to provide multi-family residential opportunities and options to commercial and other higher-intensity districts.
B. Location. The following shall be considered in establishing and maintaining the CO zone:
1. Convenient and efficient vehicular access to an arterial or collector street.
2. Availability of land suitable for grouping of professional activities.
3. Availability of parcels whose general commercial use is less desirable and/or inappropriate.
C. Permitted uses. The following uses may be permitted subject to demonstration of architectural compatibility with adjacent uses:
1. Residential dwelling units as permitted and subject to the development standards found in section 17-4-26.
2. Professional offices: Law, architectural, engineering, planning, business and management consulting.
3. General offices: Real estate, data processing, executive suites, photographic services, travel agents, research services, and administrative offices.
4. Medical and dental: Offices, laboratories, clinics, and pharmacies; but not including drug stores.
5. Veterinary clinic, small.
6. Financial services: Accounting, auditing, bookkeeping, tax consultation, collection agencies, credit services, insurance and investment, security and commodity brokers, dealers and exchanges, insurance and financial planning.
7. Public service: Detective and protective services, employment services and public utility offices.
8. Such other comparable uses as determined by the planning manager.
D. Accessory uses (reserved).
E. Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted with the issuance of a conditional use permit pursuant to the procedure set forth in section 17-3-2 (conditional use permits):
1. Restaurants and cafes (not to include drive-ins or carry-outs) subject to:
a. The facility is designed to preclude vehicular ingress and egress in conflict with existing or planned adjacent residential uses.
b. The facility is located and designed to eliminate noise and/or odors.
c. The facility is an integral part of the office building.
2. Private schools. Business, music, dance, art, and vocational, which must be an integral part of the office building.
3. Special retail. Specialty retail services such as florist, jewelry, barber and beauty shops, child care facilities, clothes cleaning and tailor shops, and such other compatible uses as may be determined by the conditional use process and which shall all be integral to the primary use as an office complex.
4. Banks and savings and loans.
5. Upon annexation and translation of county zoning, any use or uses and densities that were permitted on the annexed property under the county zoning at the time of annexation (see section 17-3-2 (conditional use permits), paragraph P).
F. Temporary uses (reserved).
G. Prohibited uses (reserved).
H. Intensity standards.
1. Residential. On any parcel or unit of development, the following intensity standards apply:
a. Dwelling unit density: There shall be no more than 25 dwelling units for each acre of parcel area.
b. Building coverage: The sum of all buildings and structures shall cover no more than 40% of all land area developed.
2. Non-residential. The following standards shall apply:
a. Building coverage: The sum of all buildings and structures shall cover no more than 30% of all land area developed.
b. Reserved.
I. Site development standards. The following site development standards shall apply:
1. Street frontage: minimum of 100 feet.
2. Lot area:
a. Multifamily: minimum of 3.0 acres.
b. Non-residential: none
3. Front yard: minimum of 25 feet.
4. Side yard: minimum of 15 feet for residential uses. No side yard is required for non-residential uses provided minimum international building code requirements are met. However, a non-residential use adjacent to a residential zone shall have a minimum side yard of not less than 15 feet plus an additional 10 feet for each story over one story, or in excess of 18 feet in height, whichever is greater.
5. Street side yard: minimum of twenty-five feet.
6. Rear yard: minimum of twenty-five feet.
7. Building height: maximum of forty feet.