(a) PURPOSE AND INTENT
. The O-1 District is intended to provide areas for office, institutional and residential uses consistent with the Mixed Use, Office, Commercial and Business Park Overlay Future Land Use Categories of the adopted Moline Comprehensive Plan. In special or unique circumstances, the O-1 District may also accommodate personal or small business services where consistent with the defining characteristics of the District. The District standards have been crafted, and are intended to be implemented, so that redevelopment and new development projects preserve and enhance the defining characteristics of the District.
(b) DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS
. The O-1 District in Moline is primarily characterized by professional office, institutional and residential uses housed in smaller buildings (20,000 square feet or less) with low building heights (30 feet or less) and low lot coverages (50% or less). The District may also include secondary business establishments with accessory or specialty retail sales on a limited basis where the development focus is more on design rather than use to ensure compatibility with the surrounding development. Some developments within the District have two or more buildings/lots arranged in a campus-type setting, while others entail single buildings on single lots lined up along prominent collector and minor arterial roads that bi-sect residential areas. Accordingly, the District can serve as a transition between residential development and higher traffic roadways or, in some instances, more intensive non-residential development. All parking needs are provided on-site. Off-site impacts from traffic generation, noise, odors lights and vibrations are minimal in this District. Site layouts and building orientations are designed to achieve compatibility with the adjoining residential districts, while also providing appropriate screening and buffering from the adjoining, more intensive non-residential development. Where areas in the District adjoin deep ravines or other natural features, lot sizes are larger than the minimums specified for the District as a whole or buildings and improvements clustered in order to protect these natural features and resources in accordance with Article IV of this Code. This District is mapped in areas that have adequate public facilities and services with capacity to serve the existing and projected impacts and needs of development of this magnitude.
(c) BULK STANDARDS
. Tables 35-3301.1. and 35-3301.2. list bulk standards for principal and accessory structures.
(1) Residential Uses
. For all principle residential uses, the R-6 District bulk standards shall apply (see Table 35-3201.1.).
(d) LAND USE REGULATIONS
. Division 4 of this Article provides all land use regulations for this District.
(e) SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
. Article IV of this Code provides site development standards applicable to development within this District.
(f) SITE IMPROVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
. Article V, Divisions 1 through 4, of this Code provides site improvement and performance standards applicable to development within this District All land uses in this district, except one- and two-family dwellings shall, in addition to Division 1 through 4, comply with the quality building and site design and materials standards contained in Division 5 of Article V.