Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right25
- single-unit dwelling
- two-unit dwelling
- townhouse dwelling
- multi-unit dwelling
- auxiliary dwelling
- business and professional office
- cemetery
- church
- day care center
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
- medical laboratory
- health profession office
- motor vehicle parking or storage for 20 vehicles or fewer
- outdoor dining located on private property at a commercial complex
- personal service establishment
- private school, commercial
- public school
- radio or TV broadcasting office and studio
- recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- retail shopping establishment
- restaurant located within a commercial complex or hotel
- seminary, convent or monastery
- social service use
- utilities
- accessory uses
Conditional / special use35
- animal care facility with overnight accommodation
- co-living dwelling
- restaurant
- outdoor garden center
- outdoor market
- outdoor dining on private property
- valet parking
- any use with live entertainment
- automobile service station
- bus shelter on private property
- catering operation
- congregate housing facility
- continuum of care facility
- day labor agency
- drive through facility
- food and beverage production exceeding 5,000 square feet
- fraternal or private club
- funeral home
- homeless shelter
- hospital
- hotel
- interstate bus station
- light automobile repair
- medical care facility
- motor vehicle parking or storage for more than 20 vehicles
- nursing or convalescent home or hospice
- outdoor dining on private property
- outdoor market
- outdoor garden center
- private school, academic, with more than 20 students
- public building
- research and testing laboratory
- recreation and entertainment use, outdoor
- retail shopping establishment, larger than 20,000 gross square feet
- wholesale business
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk, including, but not limited to, walls, window film, storage cabinets, carts, shelving, boxes, coat racks, storage bins, and closets, shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.
Other
- Auxiliary dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.4 units
Up to four auxiliary dwelling units are permitted and shall be categorized as nonresidential for the purpose of applying the area and bulk regulations of this zone.
- Co-living dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.2 units
Up to two co-living dwellings shall be categorized as nonresidential for the purpose of applying the area and bulk regulations of this zone.
- Day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day. pick-up/drop-off plan
A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
- All operations enclosed
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 4-800 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.
- Noxious uses prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No use shall be conducted in any manner which would render it noxious or offensive by reason of dust, refuse matter, odor, smoke, gas, fumes, noise, vibration or glare.
- Tobacco retail proximity
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.
From the ordinance
The OC zone is designed to allow areas for primarily office use of moderate density and relatively low heights.