Hallsville O-C Office/Commercial District ordinance (§ 400.400)

A. Purpose. This district is intended to provide for professional, administrative, or other offices and certain commercial uses. It may serve as a buffer between residential and more intense nonresidential uses.

B. Permitted Uses. In District O-C, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered, except for one or more of the following uses:

1. All permitted uses in District R-1 (subject to the height and area regulations of District R-1).

2. Antique stores.

3. Banks, other financial institutions, and travel agencies.

4. Counseling centers operated by charitable or not-for-profit organizations, excluding any use connected with penal or correctional institutions.

5. Hospitals for human beings, medical or dental clinics, sanitariums, and medical laboratories.

6. Office buildings used for the administrative functions of businesses, professions, companies, corporations; and social, philanthropic, eleemosynary, or governmental organizations or societies.

7. Offices for professional and business use involving the sale or provision of services:

a. Artists, sculptors, photographer.

b. Authors, writers, composers.

c. Barber and beauty shops.

d. Lawyers, engineers, planners, architects, realtors, accountants, insurance agents, brokers, and other consultants in similar professions.

e. Ministers, rabbis, priests, or other clergy members.

f. Physical fitness centers.

g. Physicians, dentists, chiropractors, or other licensed medical practitioners.

h. Seamstresses, tailors.

i. Teachers of private lessons in art, music, or dance.

j. Residential care facilities.

k. Schools operated as a business within an enclosed building, except trade schools and schools, which offer retail goods or services to the public.

C. Conditional Uses. The following uses shall be permitted in District O-C only after the issuance of a conditional use permit pursuant to the provisions of Section 400.650:

1. Bed-and-breakfast.

2. Buildings and premises for public utility services or public service corporations, whose buildings or uses the Board deems reasonable necessary for public convenience or welfare.

3. Drive-up facilities incidental to any permitted uses.

4. Hospitals for small animals, if within an enclosed building.

5. Process laboratories within an enclosed building (dentures, eyeglasses, etc.).

6. Research laboratories (limited to research such as medical research, statistical research, etc.).

D. Water Supply And Sewage System. Each lot with an O-C Zoning District shall be served by a public water supply and a public sewer supply.

E. Parking Regulations. Off street parking space shall be provided in accordance with the same requirements of C-1 as set forth in Section 400.580 of this Chapter.

F. Dimensional Requirements. Minimum width, depth, and minimum lot size shall be provided in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 400.480 of this Chapter.