Chapter 17.56
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL OFFICE (BPO) DISTRICT
Sections:
17.56.010 Purpose.
17.56.020 Permitted uses.
17.56.030 Conditional uses.
17.56.040 Design review required.
17.56.050 Accessory uses, buildings and structures.
17.56.060 Prohibited uses.
17.56.070 Development standards.
17.56.080 Other uses, standards and requirements.
17.56.010 Purpose.
The business and professional office district (BPO) designation provides for professional and administrative offices, medical and dental offices, laboratories, financial institutions, public and quasi-public uses and similar and compatible uses. Residential uses in this designation can be considered for upper floor areas. (Prior code § 27.90)
17.56.020 Permitted uses.
Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services;
Advertising agencies;
Business credit institutions;
Commercial and stock savings banks;
Computer and data processing services;
Contractors’ offices and showrooms, excluding storage yards;
Dental offices;
Engineering, architectural and surveying services;
Holding and investment offices;
Home health care equipment;
Home health care services;
Insurance agents, brokers and service;
Mailing, reproduction, commercial art and photography services, stenographers for advertisers;
Management, consulting and public relation services;
Massage offices;
Media representatives;
Medical offices;
Miscellaneous health care, including outpatient care;
Mortgage bankers and brokers;
Office use, local-serving business, professional and medical offices; off-site winery offices are permitted with no wine tasting;
Personal and business credit institutions;
Physicians;
Real estate agents and managers;
Savings and loan associations;
Security and commodity brokers;
Title abstract offices;
Trust companies;
Wholesale offices, excluding storage or on-site shipping and receiving of products;
Other similar uses found consistent with the general plan and the BPO district pursuant to Chapter 17.08. (Ord. 09-6 § 2 (Exh. A (part)): prior code § 27.91)
17.56.030 Conditional uses.
The following list of uses require approval of a use permit as regulated by Chapter 17.168:
Child care services;
Electric and gas utilities;
Health club and fitness centers;
Nursing and personal care facilities;
Off-site winery offices with nonpublic wine tasting. Tasting of wine may be offered to wine distributors and wine merchants;
Parking facilities when not required to serve an approved use;
Public and quasi-public noncommercial uses (open to the public but privately owned), buildings and facilities of an administrative, educational, religious, cultural, communications or public service nature;
Research and development laboratories;
Residential units, limited to upper floors;
Sanitary services;
Schools and educational services;
Social halls, lodges, fraternal organizations and clubs when owned and operated by nonprofit organizations;
Other similar uses found consistent with the general plan and the BPO district pursuant to Chapter 17.08. (Ord. 09-6 § 2 (Exh. A (part)): prior code § 27.92)
17.56.040 Design review required.
Pursuant to Chapter 17.164 all signs, new structures or buildings, or exterior revisions of any existing structures or buildings for both permitted and conditional uses shall require design review. (Prior code § 27.93)
17.56.050 Accessory uses, buildings and structures.
The following are the accessory uses, buildings and structures permitted in the BPO district:
A. Signs subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.148;
B. Small recycling centers (not more than five hundred (500) square feet) including mobile recycling units, nonprofit drop-off facilities and reverse vending machines, subject to design review approval by the planning director;
C. On-site storage facilities accessory to the primary use are subject to design review approval by the planning commission. On-site storage shall not be located within required parking areas. Design review will include, but not be limited to, location, length of time for the storage facility, and size of the storage facility;
D. Other uses and structures which are customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to permitted and conditional use pursuant to Chapter 17.08. (Prior code § 27.94)
17.56.060 Prohibited uses.
The following uses are specifically prohibited in the BPO district: (Reserved.) (Prior code § 27.95)
17.56.070 Development standards.
The following requirements shall be observed in the BPO district, except as otherwise provided in this title:
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A. Maximum Standards. |
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1. Height of building/structures |
30 feet1 |
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B. Minimum Standards. |
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1. Lot area |
7,000 square feet |
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2. Front setback |
20 feet |
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3. Side setback |
10 feet |
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4. Side yard |
10 feet |
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5. Rear yard |
15 feet |
1 No roof pitch shall be less than 4:12.
(Prior code § 27.96)
17.56.080 Other uses, standards and requirements.
A. Landscaping Requirements.
1. Fifteen percent (15%) of the site shall be landscaped.
2. Installation and Maintenance of Landscaping and Shade Trees. All required frontage yards, off-street parking areas, and all other open areas, other than screened storage areas, shall be improved and shall be permanently maintained by the property owner with the installation of shade trees and landscaped areas and planters in accordance with the following standards:
a. At least two trees shall be installed in any parking lot with a total of one tree per four spaces required in lots of not more than fifteen (15) spaces and twenty (20) trees per acre with forty (40) feet or greater canopies or twenty-four (24) trees per acre with canopies less than forty (40) feet required in all other lots. Such trees generally shall be fifteen (15) gallons can size and shall conform to the National Association of Nurserymen’s adopted standards for growth, condition and development of nursery-supplied materials. Modification of these standards for equivalent quality of tree or shade plant may be permitted depending on species and quality of stock.
b. Where a parking lot abuts a public right-of-way, there shall be provided a landscaped planter contiguous to and parallel to such right-of-way.
c. Shade trees shall be of a variety approved by the city that will, under ordinary circumstances and growing conditions, provide shade upon reaching maturity. Distribution of trees shall generally be in a grid or similar pattern within off-street parking lots, required yards, and other open spaces and landscaped areas so as to fulfill the intent of the ordinance to shade expanses of pavement and other open space.
d. Landscaping and shade trees shall be contained in planters and tree wells bordered by a six-inch-high concrete curb or equivalent barrier approved by the city.
e. Unless otherwise specified in this title or under the conditions of an approved permit, planters and tree wells shall have a width of not less than five feet and shall be protected from automobile overhang where necessary through the provision of barriers, tire stops or additional width.
f. Landscaped areas and planters shall be served by an irrigation system approved by the city and shall be kept in a weed-free condition.
B. Wastewater Generation. Each and every use allowed in the BPO district shall be restricted such that all said uses on any single “lot of record,” as defined by Section 13.24.090(C) of this code, do not in the aggregate generate wastewater in excess of the following standards:
1. Six hundred (600) gallons per day, without a use permit which regulates wastewater generation;
2. Two thousand five hundred (2,500) gallons per day, upon grant of a use permit regulating wastewater generation; provided the city council approves a use permit with conditions ensuring that all reasonable water conservation measures are implemented, and finds that approval is in the best interest of the city; or
3. For all uses lawfully in effect on any lot of record on December 8, 1981, which generated in aggregate more than six hundred (600) gallons of wastewater per day, such uses may be altered, reconstructed or changed; provided, that the resultant uses on any such lot of record do not in the aggregate generate wastewater exceeding the aggregate wastewater gallonage per day for all uses existing on said lot of record on December 8, 1981.
C. Demolition Permit Required. Except when required for the emergency protection of public health, safety or welfare as determined by the city manager, no permit authorizing the demolition of any structure within the commercial zone districts shall be issued until reviewed by the planning commission in accordance with the procedures established in Chapter 17.92 and the following findings:
1. That, based on the public record and testimony presented at a public hearing, the structure is determined not to be a significant architectural or historical building.
2. If a structure is determined to be significant by the planning commission, no demolition will be authorized unless the following findings are made by the commission:
a. That the structure poses a threat to health, safety and general welfare if it is not demolished;
b. That restoration of the structure is not feasible or practicable using current building codes including, but not limited to, the historic building code provisions of the Uniform Building Code of the state;
c. That no public or other funding is available for financing renovation or purchase of the structure.
D. Right to Farm Provision. Property owners within the district shall recognize that there exists a right to farm properties within the district and in the vicinity of the district. There is a good faith expectation that no complaints will occur regarding legal normal agricultural activities on properties in the district or in the vicinity of the district. Such activities may include day or night disbursement of chemicals and creation of dust, noise, or fumes. (Prior code § 27.97)