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A. PURPOSE AND VISION.

1. The purpose of the Business Park (BPD) District is to provide an attractive environment for modern offices, light assembly, and warehouse development and to create employment and economic development opportunities in a campus-like setting. The standards promote development intended to create an environment compatible with nearby, existing developed areas.

2. The Business Park (BPD) District allows a mix of business and employment uses in a design-integrated development consisting of one (1) or more buildings having an exterior appearance and pedestrian-friendly park-like walkability of a business park, with all loading docks, outdoor storage, and other higher intensity uses and activities occurring within internalized courts visible and accessible only from the interior of the development.

B. LOCATION. The Business Park (BPD) District may be located in one (1) of the following areas:

1. On a site that is adjacent to or near an arterial or major non-residential collector street.

2. On a site that is adjacent to a rail line.

3. Near existing or proposed employment uses.

4. On a site that functions as a transition between commercial and industrial uses.

5. Adjacent to a residential use or district only if the physical location of the site allows for significant buffering and a project design that mitigates potential adverse effects of the Business Park (BPD) District on the residential use or district.

C. PRINCIPAL PERMITTED USES. Only listed use of structures or land shall be permitted.

1. Automobile Repair, but excluding collision and body work.

2. Auto sales, leasing, and rental, from within an enclosed building, and with no more than three (3) vehicles displayed outdoors.

3. Bar or cocktail lounge subject to conditions or limitations set forth in Section 3-3-3-A-8 of this Ordinance.

4. Brewpub, subject to the provisions of Section 4-2-15 of this Ordinance.

5. Business and professional offices.

6. Cultural facilities for the arts, such as dance, theater, art, music.

7. Data centers and chip making facilities.

8. Fine arts and crafts studios.

9. Governmental offices, libraries, auditoriums, and museums.

10. Indoor entertainment establishments and uses, including athletic facilities, health clubs, bowling alleys, electronic game centers and arcades, ice and roller rinks, miniature golf, performing arts centers, pool halls and theaters, but excluding adult bookstores, adult theaters, and adult live entertainment establishments.

11. Institutions of a religious, educational, or philanthropic nature.

12. Manufacturing, assembling, and processing.

13. Medical office.

14. Microbrewery, producing 15,000 barrels of beer or less per year subject to the provisions of Section 4-2-16 of this Ordinance.

15. Private business, professional, and trade schools.

16. Professional services including but not limited to ticket offices, bonding companies, brokerage firms, credit bureaus, credit unions, employment agency, messenger service, delivery services, public relations consultants, real estate office, title insurance companies, copying services, graphic design businesses, office equipment sales and repair, and travel bureaus.

17. Public utility offices.

18. Restaurant, excluding drive-in and drive-through facilities.

19. Retail stores with sales only, excluding drive-through facilities and convenience uses.

20. Scientific, research, and development laboratories, including those related to medical research.

21. Trades wholesales and sales, including plumbing, electrical, building materials and HVAC.

22. Warehouse, wholesale, or distribution facility with loading docks on only one side of each building (cross-dock buildings are prohibited).

23. Similar uses as determined by the Zoning Administrator.

D. PERMITTED ACCESSORY USES.

1. All accessory uses permitted in the C-2 General Commercial District.

2. Outdoor storage conducted within internalized courts, in an area enclosed and screened from view by a solid masonry wall on all sides, with no storage higher than the wall.

E. DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS.

1. Buildings shall be oriented and designed with truck courts, loading docks, service bays, and bay doors on only one (1) side of the building and facing internally to the site, within an internalized court screened by other onsite primary buildings, and not visible from development boundaries.

Intended Design Configuration

2. Development shall comply with the screening standards in the Development Standards for Commercial Districts set forth in Section 3-3-7-B-7 of this Ordinance, except to the extent those standards conflict with more stringent requirements set forth in this Section.

3. As more strictly applied herein, above ground structures and equipment, such as silos, generators, chiller units, storage tanks, and other similar accessory structures, shall be located within internalized courts adjacent to the primary buildings onsite and shall not exceed the height of the building. Such accessory uses and structures shall not be visible from adjacent properties or surrounding roadways.

4. Developments within the Business Park (BPD) District shall provide a minimum of five (5) percent of the net site area as recreational open space, in conformance with the following:

a. Recreational open space shall include plazas, open turf areas, landscaping, and amenities, such as game areas, exercise stations, seating, benches, and tables.

b. Shade shall be provided through a combination of trees and structures to ensure fifty (50) percent shade coverage.

c. Recreational open space shall be visible to surrounding properties and streets adjacent to the development.

d. Pedestrian scale lighting and security lighting shall be provided to ensure visibility during low light and nighttime hours.

e. Sidewalks and pathways shall connect recreational open space areas to other open spaces, building entrances and all employee and customer/visitor gathering areas.

f. For multi-phased developments, the required recreational open space shall be completed with the first phase of development, or in accordance with a phasing plan approved by the Zoning Administrator or designee.

g. Recreational open space may not be used as a stormwater retention or detention basin.

h. Recreational open space is included in the minimum fifteen (15) percent landscaping area requirement of Section 5-1-4-B-1-c.

5. Artificial turf shall be used for all turf areas.

6. Office and similar uses shall face the street that provides primary access or shall face a major collector or higher classification roadway.

7. Where a lot in the Business Park (BPD) District abuts a residential district or an existing residential use, the existing landscape buffer requirements of Section 5-1-4-B-3-b shall be increased by an additional twenty-five (25) feet, with a double row of trees planted within the buffer.

8. All principal uses shall take place within entirely enclosed buildings.

9. All uses are subject to Site Plan review.

10. Area, Setback and Height and related requirements shall conform with the standards for the District, as set forth in Commercial Districts standards, Section 3-3-7.

11. Off-Street Parking. Paved, screened parking, which may be covered, subject to setback standards, shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of Article 6, Parking and Loading.

12. Landscaping, Walls, Screening. Refer to Article 5, Property Improvements Standards.

13. Supplemental Regulations. Refer to Article 8, General Provisions. (Ord. 23-1592, passed 9-25-23)