The K-OF District is intended and designed to provide certain areas of the Kettlestone development with professional office uses consisting of single or multi-tenant buildings that are one or more stories tall. Sites should be well landscaped and buildings should have a high level of exterior finish to promote a professional image. The K-OF zoning designation is reserved for those properties located within the adopted Kettlestone District Boundary Map of the Kettlestone Design Guidelines document identifying areas for residential, commercial, office and mixed uses.
1. Principal Permitted Uses. Only the uses of structures or land listed in this section shall be permitted in the K-OF District.
A. Office uses such as:
(1) Business and professional offices including the following: law, engineering, real estate, insurance, accounting, bookkeeping, finance, banking (including retail banks with drive-throughs), stock brokerage, and uses of a like or similar nature.
(2) The office of a doctor, dentist, osteopath, chiropractor, optometrist, chiropodist, or similar profession.
(3) Clinics or group medical centers, including dental clinics, but not including animal clinics or animal hospitals.
(4) Hospitals, libraries, funeral homes, and mortuaries.
(5) Office buildings serving the management, research, design, marketing and production needs of the general business community.
B. The low-intensity commercial service uses, intended primarily to serve the occupants and patrons of the Kettlestone Office District, shall be permitted within a building, housing a use permitted above:
(1) Office supply stores.
(2) Computer and electronic equipment sales and service stores.
(3) Drug stores.
(4) Gift shops.
(5) Restaurants and coffee shops (not including drive-through restaurants and coffee shops).
(6) Travel agencies.
C. Places of assembly such as churches, other places of worship, public and private schools, civic uses, and fraternal lodges.
D. Consumer fireworks sales.
2. Permitted Accessory Uses.
A. Private garage or carport.
B. Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to any principal permitted use.
C. Temporary buildings for uses incidental to construction work, which buildings shall be removed upon the completion or abandonment of the construction work.
3. Bulk Regulations. The following minimum requirements shall be observed subject to the modifications contained in Section 165.19.
Lot Area | No minimum requirement |
Lot Width | No minimum requirement |
Front Yard | No minimum for principal permitted uses. 20 feet minimum for accessory structures |
Side Yards | No minimum for principal permitted uses unless adjacent to adjoining single-family, in which case the minimum setback shall be 50 feet. 5 feet for accessory structures. |
Rear Yard | No minimum for principal permitted uses unless adjacent to adjoining single-family, in which case the minimum setback shall be 50 feet. 5 feet for accessory structures. |
Principal Building Separation | 25 feet |
Accessory Building Separation | 25 feet between principal building and accessory building |
Minimum Height | Principal building under 15,000 square feet – 1 story Principal building over 15,000 square feet – 2 stories |
Maximum Height | Principal building – 8 stories Accessory building – 1 story |
Floor Area Ratio | 0.35 |
4. Off-Street Parking and Loading. One space per 250 square feet of retail and office uses. Spaces for all other uses shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 168 of these zoning regulations.
5. Minimum Open Space. The total land area devoted to open space and landscaping shall not be less than 25 percent of the gross land area included in the building lot. Such open space shall be maintained as grassed and landscaped area and shall not include access drives, parking areas, structure, or buildings, except ornamental structures included as part of the landscaping theme.
6. Site Plan Requirements. See Chapter 160 of this Code of Ordinances and the adopted Kettlestone Design Guidelines.
(Section 169.26 – Ord. 3071 – Apr. 23 Supp.)