(a) Purpose. The "OR-1" Office Residence District is designed to accommodate a mixture of residential and office uses. Medium intensity residential and office uses are permitted with a lot area requirement of three thousand (3,000) square feet per dwelling unit. Residential and office uses may be mixed in the same building or structure. A variety of personal service uses which are compatible with the other uses of the "OR-1" Office-Residence District are permitted. This district is mapped along major thoroughfares, near hospitals and as a transitional area between commercial and residential uses.
(b) Principal Permitted Uses. Only those uses set forth below which continuously conform to all the requirements of divisions (d) through (f) of this section shall be permitted:
• Accountant's office.
• Adult Family Home.
• Adult Group Home.
• Architect's office.
• Art galleries and museums.
• Artist, sculptor and composer studios.
• Attorney's office.
• Automobile parking garages.
• Automobile parking lots.
• Banks and financial institutions.
• Barber and beauty shops.
• Bed and Breakfast.
• Day-care centers.
• Churches, chapels, temples, synagogues.
• Engineer's office.
• Family Home.
• Florists.
• Foster Family Home.
• Gift shops.
• Government buildings, structures, or premises used exclusively be federal, state, county, township, or municipal governments for public purposes, but not including work shops, warehouse, or open material storage.
• Group Home.
• Halfway House.
• Health studios and clubs.
• Insurance agent's office.
• Intermediate Care Home.
• Libraries.
• Medical and dental laboratories.
• Medical and dental office/clinic.
• Mortuaries and funeral parlors.
• Multiple-family dwelling.
• Newsstand-retail sales.
• Nursing homes.
• Photo studios.
• Professional Offices not otherwise mentioned.
• Public parks, playgrounds and community centers.
• Public utility.
• Real estate broker's office.
• Residential use on second story or above.
• Rooming houses.
• Schools - primary, intermediate and secondary - public or private.
• Seamstress and tailor.
• Single family dwellings.
• Social Care Home.
• Two-family dwellings.
(c) Permitted Accessory Uses. The following are permitted as accessory uses subject to the provisions of Section 1151.04 of this Zoning Code:
(1) Private garages or carports.
(2) A structure for storage incidental to a permitted use.
(3) A guest house.
(4) Private swimming pool, bath house, and tennis courts.
(5) Child's playhouse.
(6) Statuary, arbors, trellises, barbeque equipment, flagpoles, fences, play equipment, clothes lines, walls, and hedges.
(7) Fallout shelters.
(8) Day-care centers.
(9) Satellite earth stations and dish antennas.
(10) Antennas used by amateur radio operators.
(11) Any other use customarily found in conjunction with the principal use.
(d) Lot Size Requirements. Each separate zoning lot in the "OR-1" Office-Residence District shall:
(1) Contain a minimum lot area as follows:
A. Single-Family Residence = 6,000 square feet.
B. Two-Family Residence = 3,000 square feet per unit.
C. Multi-Family Residence = 3,000 square feet per unit.
D. Rooming houses, Nursing homes, Boarding house = 1,000 square feet per bed.
E. Other permitted uses = 6,000 square feet.
(2) Have a minimum lot width of sixty (60) feet.
(3) Have a minimum lot depth of one hundred (100) feet.
(4) Have a maximum lot depth to lot width ratio of 3:1 except on cul-de-sacs lots and other lots bearing unique topography.
(e) Buffer Strips. A buffer strip shall be established on the lot being developed in the "OR-1" Office-Residence District when it abuts the following zoning districts:
(1) A, A-R, R-1 to R-7: A minimum of fifteen (15) feet in width.
All buffer strips shall be developed in accordance with the standards outlined in Section 1149.11 of this Zoning Code.
(f) Bulk Regulations. All construction on any zoning lot in the "OR-1" Office Residence District shall provide for:
(1) Maximum building lot coverage of fifty (50) percent.
(2) Maximum structure height of forty (40) feet.
(3) Minimum front yard of twenty-five (25) feet.
(4) Minimum side yard of ten (10) feet or half (1/2) the building height.
(5) Minimum rear yard of thirty (30) feet.