(a) The following uses shall be generally permitted uses in the Austin Center Overlay District:
(1) Industrial and research and development uses.
A. Industrial or scientific research, design, and testing centers, together with related research and engineering laboratories and office buildings to accommodate executive, administrative, professional, accounting, engineering, architectural, and support personnel.
B. Manufacturing that uses advanced or leading technology in the manufacturing process excluding the uses prohibited under Section 1253.03(c)(1).
C. Food research, pharmaceutical research, and similar operations including pilot or experimental product development.
D. Telecommunications companies engaged in electronic transfer, routing, and processing of information.
E. The manufacture or assembly of general, precision, medical, dental, and optical instruments and goods; plastic, metal, and rubber products; and tools, hardware, and cutlery.
F. The manufacturing, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or goods from previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, shell, textiles, tobacco, yarns, wax, wire, and wood.
G. The manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, treatment, or fabrication of such products as: bakery goods, candy, and food products; ceramics and pottery; cosmetics and dies; and clothing, jewelry, and apparel accessories.
H. The manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electrical and electronic equipment, electronic instruments or precision devices, including the manufacture of parts for such devices.
I. Printing, lithography, blueprinting, and similar uses.
J. Data processing and computer centers, including electronic data processing and computer equipment service establishments.
(2) Office uses.
A. Business, professional and administrative offices.
B. General office buildings and uses, provided that goods are not manufactured, exchanged, or sold on the premises.
C. Electronic data processing and computer centers.
D. Photographic studios.
(b) The following uses may be permitted by the Planning Commission, subject to the conditions specified in Chapter 1294 of the Planning and Zoning Code; review and approval of the site plan and application by the Planning Commission; the imposition of special conditions which, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, are necessary to fulfill the purposes of this chapter.
(1) Special uses.
A. Accessory retail and service uses that are intended to serve the employees and guests of the principal use. The accessory use shall be incidental to the principal use, located within the principal structure, and shall not exceed 15% of the gross floor area of the principal use. Permitted accessory retail and service uses shall be limited to the following:
1. Convenience orientated retail uses that cater to the needs of employees and guests of the principal use such as drug stores, convenience stores, uniform supply stores, or similar retail business as determined by the Planning Commission.
2. Personal service establishments such as beauty and barber shops, fitness centers, child care, dry cleaning drop off and pick up establishments, travel agencies, tailor shops, or similar service establishments.
3. Dine in restaurants without drive through facilities.
4. Financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, and saving and loan associations.
5. Technical training centers, business schools and similar uses.
B. Ancillary business service support uses are permitted independent of a principally permitted use to provide service and amenity related uses for the businesses, employees, and guests of the office/industrial office park. Such uses shall only be permitted on separate parcels from the generally-permitted uses in the AO-1 District. Such uses shall be permitted only as determined by the Planning Commission with the maximum area devoted to any combination of accessory retail and service uses and ancillary business service support uses not to exceed 15% of the gross land area of the entire Austin Overlay (AO-1) District.
1. Automobile fueling/recharging stations.
2. Financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, and saving and loan associations.
3. Hotels and conference centers.
4. Retail establishments under 15,000 square feet in size such as convenience stores, drug stores, uniform supply stores, or similar retail businesses.
5. Personal service establishments which are intended to serve workers or visitors in the district or nearby residents, such as beauty and barber shops, corporate fitness centers, dry cleaning establishments, travel agencies, tailor shops, or similar service establishments.
6. Standard eating establishments without drive-through facilities.
7. Medical offices and clinics.
(c) The following uses are prohibited in the Austin Center Overlay District:
(1) Prohibited uses.
A. Building material sales, including establishments which sell hardware, glass, paint, and lumber, and which may require outdoor retail or wholesale display or sales area. Outdoor storage of materials and equipment shall be prohibited.
B. Any retail establishment larger than 15,000 square of gross floor area.
C. The assembly or manufacture of automobiles and automobile bodies.
D. Machine and tool and die shops; metal buffing, plating and polishing shops; metal and plastic molding and extrusion shops, millwork and planing mills; painting and sheet metal shops; undercoating and rustproofing shops; and welding shops.
E. Warehouse, material handling, packaging and product distribution facilities.
F. Mini storage or self-storage facilities of any kind or size, whether for rental or sale are not permitted.
G. Truck, tractor, and trailer sales, rental and repair.
H. Truck terminals, truck plazas, truck stops.
I. Food research, handling, preparation and packaging of fish, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast, and rendering or refining of fats and oils.
J. Heating and electric power generating stations.
K. Drive in theaters.
L. Junk, scrap, wrecking yards, or salvage yards where the operations are for the conversion of saleable materials.
M. Petroleum refining, petroleum storage.
N. Sewage disposal plants and landfills.
O. Coal, coke, and fuel yards.
P. Private outdoor recreation uses, such as archery ranges, baseball, football or soccer fields, bicycle motocross (BMX) tracks, court sports facilities, golf driving ranges, swimming pools, and similar outdoor recreation uses except as developed as an accessory use to an approved permitted or conditional use.
Q. Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster manufacturing.
R. Distillation of bone, coal, tar, petroleum, refuse, grain or wood.
S. Explosive manufacturing or storage.
T. Fertilizer manufacturing.
U. Compost or storage of garbage, offal, dead animals, refuse, or rancid fats.
V. Incineration, glue manufacturing, size or gelatin manufacturing where the processes include the refining or recovery of products from animal refuse or offal.
W. Livestock feeding yards, slaughtering of animals, or stock yards.
X. Petroleum or asphalt refining or manufacturing.
Y. Smelting or refining of metals from ores.
Z. Steam board hammers and forging presses.
AA. Storage, curing and tanning of raw, green, or salted hides or skins.
BB. Manufacturing involving the use of sulphurous, sulphuric, nitric, picric, carbolic, hydrochloric or other corrosive acids.
CC. Commercial television, telecommunication, radio and microwave towers.
(Ord. 6698. Passed 1-16-18.)