76-372. Professional office district, O-1., Article X. Office and Commercial Districts, Chapter 76. Zoning, Code of Ordinances, Code of Ordinances, Chesterfield

(a)

Purpose. The O-1 district is designed to provide a suitable environment for various types of office uses performing professional, administrative and related service occupations. This district is also intended to provide a transition or buffer between more intense uses and/or major thoroughfares and abutting one-family residential neighborhoods.

(b)

Permitted uses. Permitted uses are as follows:

(1)

Office building, with the majority of its occupancy made up of these service professions: attorneys-at-law; doctors of medicine, dentistry, optometry, osteopathy, physicians and surgeons; land surveyors; architects; landscape architects; professional engineers; community planners; certified public accountants; and similar professional occupations.

(2)

Occupations and uses permitted to make up the balance of the office building whose occupancy is primarily professional may include real estate, clerical, drafting, executive, accounting, administrative, stenographic, insurance and similar occupations requiring no outside storage of vehicles or equipment on the premises.

(3)

Accessory uses customary and incidental to a principal use shall be permitted, provided such accessory uses are within the building. Accessory buildings shall not be permitted. The accessory use within the building shall not have an outside entrance for customers (users) separate from the entrances that serve the principal use.

(4)

Uses permitted as a matter of right or special land uses as regulated under this chapter in the immediate abutting R-1-A, R-1-B, R-1-C or R-2 districts.

The outside storage of vehicles, materials or equipment on the premises is prohibited and no uses with a drive-through shall be permitted in this district.

(c)

Special approval land uses. The following uses, and others similar to those cited in this article, may be permitted by the planning commission, subject to the standards of section 76-371 and the general and specific standards for each cited in article XIII of this chapter.

(1)

Day care centers and nursery schools (see section 76-499).

(2)

Funeral homes and mortuaries (see section 76-503).

(3)

Planned unit development (see section 76-518).

(d)

Site area and placement requirements. Site area and placement requirements are as follows:

(1)

The minimum size of each lot per building:

Area: 12,000 square feet.

Width: 80 feet.

(2)

Minimum yard setback per lot:

Front and street-side. Front and street-side setbacks shall be measured from the centerline of each road right-of-way in accordance with the township's master plan, as follows:

		Distance From Centerline (feet)
	Regional (204-foot right-of-way)	132
	Regional (150-foot right-of-way)	105
	Major	90
	Secondary	90
	Collector	73
	Local	60
	Cul-de-sac	90
	Freeway	30*
	Private roads	30**

	*	Freeways shall be measured from the established right-of-way lines.
	**	In the case of private roads, the front yard setback shall be measured from the road easement or common usage line abutting the subject lot

Parking shall not be permitted in the required front or street-side setback.

Side. No side yards are required along the interior side lot lines, except as specified in the building code in article II of chapter 14. If the wall of a structure faces interior side lot lines and contains windows or other openings, a side yard not less than 20 feet shall be provided. No building shall be located closer than 35 feet to the outer perimeter (property line) of such district when the property line abuts any residential district. A suitable twenty-foot-wide access drive shall be provided to the rear yard.

Rear. Twenty feet, except no building shall be located closer than 35 feet to the outer perimeter property line of such district when the property line abuts any residential zoning district.

(e)

Building requirements. The building requirements shall be as follows:

(1)

Maximum height (stories/feet): 1/18.

(2)

Maximum lot coverage (percent): 30.

(f)

Additional site requirements. See section 76-371.

(g)

Environmental and off-street parking improvements. Environmental (landscaping, lighting, screening and signs) and off-street parking improvements shall be provided in accordance with articles V and VI of this chapter.