The O Office District is designed to provide opportunity for office use and to regulate office development to promote effective site design and compatibility with adjoining properties and uses. The district is also designed to provide for varying design regulations relative to the size of the tract proposed for development.
A. 
Permitted principal uses. A building may be erected, altered or used and land may be used, subject to the provisions in Articles XXIX and XXX, for any of the following purposes and no others:
(1) 
Offices of business, professional or financial organizations.
(2) 
Offices of individuals and of such organizations as labor unions, civic, social, fraternal and other nonprofit groups.
(3) 
Schools, including nursery, kindergarten, elementary, junior and senior high schools.
(4) 
Day-care centers.
(5) 
Communications antennas mounted on an existing public utility transmission tower, building or other structure and communications equipment buildings, subject to the regulations set forth in § 275-216 of Article XXXIV.
[Added 9-14-1998 by Ord. No. 588]
B. 
Accessory uses to permitted principal uses.
(1) 
Accessory uses on the same lot and customarily incidental to the principal uses permitted in Subsection A.
(2) 
Parking in accordance with Article XXXI.
(3) 
Signs in accordance with Article XXXII.
C. 
Conditional uses.
(1) 
An office for professional occupations in Subsection A.
(2) 
Private club for recreation.
(3) 
Communications towers, subject to the standards for communications towers as conditional uses set forth at § 275-216.1, and communications equipment buildings, subject to the regulations set forth in § 275-216 of Article XXXIV.
[Added 9-14-1998 by Ord. No. 588]
The maximum height of buildings or other structures erected, enlarged or used shall be two stories and shall not exceed 35 feet, except as provided in Article XXXIV, Special Provisions, which provide for exceptions to height regulations for certain structures.
A. 
Permitted principal uses.
(1) 
Minimum lot area: two acres for each principal permitted building.
(2) 
Minimum lot width at building line: 150 feet.
(3) 
Minimum lot width at street line: 100 feet.
(4) 
Maximum impervious surface coverage: 40%.
(5) 
Maximum building coverage: 20%.
(6) 
Minimum depth of each front and rear yard: 75 feet.
(7) 
Minimum aggregate width of side yards: 125 feet.
(8) 
Minimum width of each individual side yard: 50 feet.
(9) 
Minimum side yard abutting the street on a corner lot: 75 feet.
A. 
Buffer area.
(1) 
A buffer area of 25 feet shall be provided, of which at least 15 feet shall be landscaped in accordance with the provisions in Article XXXIV, except as provided below.
(2) 
When any use in the O Office District abuts an area zoned residential, a buffer of 100 feet shall be provided, or which at least 25 feet shall be landscaped in accordance with the provisions in Article XXXIV.
B. 
Water and sewers. The tract must be served with public water and a public sanitary sewer system.
C. 
Illumination.
(1) 
All driveways, parking areas and vehicle maneuvering areas shall be adequately illuminated.
(2) 
All exterior lighting shall be directed in such a way so as not to create a nuisance to the adjoining properties or roadways.
(3) 
All exterior lighting shall be arranged in such a manner so as to protect the street or highway and adjoining properties from any direct or indirect glare or interference of any kind. All such lighting shall be equipped with glare shielding devices and be at a height maximum approved by the Township.
D. 
Parking.
(1) 
No parking area shall abut a street or highway, unless separated from said street or highway by a raised curb and a buffer planting strip of the minimum width, except for necessary accessways.
E. 
Clear sight triangle. A clear sight triangle consistent with good safety practices, but a minimum of 50 feet, shall be maintained at all street intersections and at all points where private vehicular driveways and accessways intersect public streets.
F. 
Ingress and egress.
(1) 
There shall be no more than two access points to any street or highway for each 400 feet or less of frontage. No two access points shall be closer than 200 feet from each line, center line to center line.
(2) 
All accessways, driveways and maneuvering lanes shall be designed in a manner conducive to safe ingress and egress and shall not be less than 100 feet from the intersection of any street or highway right-of-way lines.
G. 
Distance between buildings. On any lot containing more than one building, there shall be a minimum distance of 50 feet between buildings measured from the nearest point of any other building.
H. 
All development shall be in accordance with the environmental controls in Article XXXIII.
I. 
All refuse storage areas shall be maintained indoors.
J. 
All development shall be served by public water and public sewer.