(a) PURPOSE AND INTENT. The ORT District is intended to provide for major office, research and technology-based light industrial uses primarily located along expressways or arterial roads consistent with the Office, Commercial, Commercial/Industrial, and Business Park Overlay Future Land Use Categories of the adopted Moline Comprehensive Plan. 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 ORT District in Moline is characterized by large, attractively landscaped, low-density, office and research uses and some specialized unobjectionable light industrial activities. These uses take advantage of the adjoining transportation corridors but are sufficiently restricted to be compatible with adjacent residential and commercial development. These may include manufacturing, processing, packaging, assembly or treatment of finished or semi-finished products from previously prepared materials. No outdoor storage is allowed in this District, and all operations must be in an enclosed building. Areas within the District typically are the subject of a master development plan that includes multiple lots in a campus like setting. All parking needs are provided on-site, and off-site impacts from traffic generation, noise, odors, lights, and vibrations are minimized through site layouts and building orientations designed to achieve compatibility with the adjoining lower intensity districts, while also providing appropriate screening and buffering from the adjoining, more intensive non-residential development. This District is intended to have a green/open space atmosphere conducive to quality development with the preservation of significant natural features. Thus, 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.
(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 Divisions 1 through 4, comply with the quality building and site standards contained in Division 5 of Article V.