(A) Intent. The purpose of the office professional district shall be to locate and establish areas in the city which are deemed to be uniquely suited for the development of professional office uses and services protected from the intense development of commercial and industrial facilities. Development standards and provisions are established to ensure proper development of uses within the district; to reduce conflicts with adjacent residential uses; and to minimize traffic conflicts along adjacent thoroughfares.
(B) Principal uses and structures. The following uses and structures are permitted for any use or group of uses that are developed, either separately, or as a unit with certain site improvements shared in common:
(1) Professional offices and services such as medical and dental, legal, engineering, real estate, insurance, accounting, chiropractic, architectural, technical, and similar professions.
(2) Financial institutions without drive-through service.
(C) Accessory uses and structures. Customary accessory uses of one (1) or more of the principal uses, clearly incidental and subordinate to the principal uses, in keeping with the professional character of the district. No storage of material is permitted except where such material is clearly incidental to and an accessory component of the rendering of professional services. All storage shall be within an enclosed structure.
(D) Conditional uses:
(1) Churches.
(2) Libraries.
(3) Public utility equipment and facilities not located within a public utility easement.
(4) Public uses.
(5) Veterinarian clinics provided all activities are within the principal structure and there is no boarding of animals.
(6) Camouflaged communication towers and facilities.
(E) Prohibited uses and structures:
(1) Retail, wholesale, drive through services/facilities, warehousing, storage, building contractor storage, personal service, assembling, and/or manufacturing.
(2) All uses not specifically or provisionally permitted herein; any use not in keeping with the intent of this district.
(3) Corrections facilities.
(4) Pain-management clinic.
(F) Lot and structure requirements:
(1) Minimum lot area — ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
(2) Minimum lot width — one hundred (100) feet.
(3) Minimum lot depth — one hundred (100) feet.
(4) Maximum building coverage — twenty-five percent (25%).
(5) Minimum floor area — three hundred (300) square feet.
(6) Maximum height — twenty-five (25) feet.
(7) Minimum yard requirements:
(a) Front — thirty (30) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located in the front yard except within ten (10) feet of front lot line.
(b) Side interior — ten (10) feet minimum building and parking setback. Side yards abutting residentially zoned property shall maintain a twenty- five (25) foot minimum setback for all buildings and parking.
(c) Side corner — twenty-five (25) feet minimum building setback. Parking areas may be located on the side corner yard except within ten (10) feet of the side corner lot line.
(d) Rear — thirty (30) feet minimum building and parking setback. Fifteen (15) feet when abutting a dedicated alley.
(8) Shared access and parking areas.
(a) No side interior building and parking area setbacks are required provided all of the following are met:
1. Buildings on adjacent parcels, under separate ownership, are joined by a common wall;
2. Parking areas and aisles are joined with adjacent parcel(s) under separate ownership;
3. Curb cuts and driveways on principal roadways (collector and arterial streets) are shared in common by all parcels involved and a minimum spacing of one hundred and fifty (150) feet is maintained; or access is provided by an approved frontage road;
4. Easements and/or written assurances of cross access and a sharing of common facilities (stormwater system, solid waste, container(s), lighting, landscaping, etc.), as may be applicable, from all property owners involved must be approved prior to the issuance of a building permit.
(b) No interior side parking area setbacks, are required provided the requirements of divisions 2. through 4. are met.
(c) For adjacent developments meeting the requirements of divisions 2. through 4. above, the total number of off-street parking spaces required for uses on all parcels involved may be reduced by ten percent (10%) where the location of shared parking areas provides convenient access to all principal buildings.
(9) A six (6) foot high completely opaque masonry wall shall be provided along the entire length of any side or rear property line abutting property zoned residential. Landscaping shall be provided in accordance with the landscape requirements of this zoning code.
(10) Design requirements.
(a) An Architectural Style for each structure is required. This shall include adherence to all standards contained in § 185.134.
('74 Code, § 25-133) (Ord. 89-08, passed 4-27-89; Am. Ord. 94-29, passed 6-16-94; Am. Ord. 95-44, passed 11-2-95; Am. Ord. 98-20, passed 7-16-98; Am. Ord. 98-31, passed 9-17-98; Am. Ord. 2000-57, passed 11-2-00; Am. Ord. 2004-59, passed 10-7-04; Am. Ord. 2008-27, passed 5-1-08; Am. Ord. 2009-16, passed 5-7-09; Am. Ord. 2010-41, passed 9-16-10; Am. Ord. 2016-17, passed 4-21-16)