§ 17.16.175. Professional office park.

A professional office park erected, constructed, placed, altered, converted or otherwise changed, may be allowed by right in the PDD2 and TED districts and only by special permit in the RB, RC, RC1, RC2, RC3, PDD1, NB, GB, GB1, CB, HB, LI and IP districts by the city council in conformance with the dimensional and parking control requirements of this title, except as specifically changed by this section.

A.

There shall be no public restaurants, however, eating facilities and other amenities for office park occupants and guests is permitted.

B.

One parking space per three hundred square feet of general business and professional office space; and, one parking space per two hundred square feet of medical and dental office space is required.

C.

Minimal parcel size shall be five acres.

D.

No retail businesses shall be allowed except for sales and services reasonably incidental to an office park complex.

E.

The structure shall meet the following setback requirements:

1.

Twenty feet front yard;

2.

Fifty feet side and rear yard.

F.

Maximum height of any new structure shall not exceed two and one-half stories or thirty-five feet. However, if any preexisting structure is altered or reconstructed, its height shall not exceed its existing number of stories.

G.

Genetic engineering and the handling of volatile or hazardous substances that endangers the public health, safety and welfare is forbidden.

H.

The lot coverage, excluding accessory structures and parking facilities, shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the land area.

I.

Fifteen percent of the land shall be designated "open space."

(C.O.97-105 § 15; C.O. 88-20 § 2)