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An Ordinance Regarding Commercial Office District
Section 100. Purpose: and intent. The CO, Commercial Office District is established
primarily to provide areas for the development of professional and administrative
offices, related uses together with supportive, lour intensity commercial uses in
locations in close proximity to residential areas where such uses can conveniently
serve the public and to create a suitable environment for ,such uses and buildings
especially designed for their purposes, located on sites large enough to provide
room for appropriate separation of uses, landscaped opera spaces and off street park -
ng facilities.
This district is intended to be located primarily on heavily traveled streets or
adjacent to commercial or industrial districts and is designed to lessen the impact
of these uses on residential areas.
Section 101. Permitted uses. in a commercial office District, unless otherwise provided
in this code, no building or use of land shall be erected, structurally altered or ex-
panded except for one or more of the: following uses:
(a) Professional offices;
(b) Administrative Offices;
(c) Medical and dental offices and clinics;
(d) Financial offices, stock brokerages, banks and savings and loans, real
estate offices and rather general business offices;
(a) Related commercial uses
Incidental services such as restaurants, pharmacies, and retail
sales which nerve primarily the occupants and patrons of the per-
mitted office use, when conducted within the same building. Related
commercial uses shall not exceed 257. of the total net floor area of
the building.
(f) Supportive Commercial uses:
The following free standing uses may be permitted upon approval by
the City Council of a sgecial en€ce..ptim Specialty or gift stores,
office: supply, ticket agency, travel service, opticians and similar
uses. The uses provided for in this subse=ction may be the sole use
of a particular property or building or may be combined with any
permitted or conditional cases allowed in the district upon compliance
with the necessary special exception or special use procedures.
Section 102. Conditional Uses. The following uses are permitted subsequent to
review and approval of a special use permit:
(a) medical and dental laboratories, not including the manufactures of
pharmaceutical or other products for general sales and distribution;
(b) Public and quasi -public uses appropriate to the district such as
hospital, convalescent hospitals and professional, businesses and
technical schools;
(c) Public utility and service buildings, structures and uses appropriate
to the district;
It is the intent of this subsection to provide for uses which supply public
or quasi -public services which are of a substantially automated nature or
require only periodic maintenance such as water pumping stations, telephone
relay or switching facilities and similar uses. It is not intended that office
facilities, maintenance dispatching depots or any use which generates regular
daily use and/or traffic would fall within this definition.
(d) Restaurants;
In keeping with the intent and purpose of the CO District a restaurant use
does not include a drive-in or any restaurant commonly referred to as "fast
food" or "franchise" wherein the emphasis is on automobile oriented clientele
and/or where any sizeable proportion of the total activity is involved in
take-out orders intended for consumption other than within the building.
Questions of the applicability of this definition to an individual proposal shal
be reviewed by the Planning Commission which shall forward a recommendation
to the City Council for final determination.
(e) Any other office use which is determined to be the same general character as
the above uses.
Section 103. Interpretation of Permitted or Conditional Uses. where there is a question
concerning the appropriateness of a particular use as permitted or conditional within
the CO zone the Planning Commission shall review the question and forward a recommendatioi
to the City Council for final determination.
Section 104. Site Development Standards. The establishment, operation and maintenance
of the uses permitted by Sections 100 through 104 shall be in compliance with the
following standards:
(a) Minimum building site area: 20,000 square feet
(b) Minimum building site width: 100 feet
(c) Minimum building site depth: 200 feet
(d) Building height limit: 5 stories and not to exceed 50 feet
(e) Maximum building site coverage: 35%
(f) Building setbacks:
Adjacent to residential
Building shall be setback a minimum of 50 feet or twice the building
height whichever is greater from any property line where adjacent
property is zoned for or developed to residential uses. A 25 foot
wide landscape area shall be provided adjacent to any residential
area.
Non -Residential
In all other instances a 15 foot setback or a setback equal to 50%
of the height of the building, whichever is greater shall be observed
from side and rear property linea. A 30 foot setback shall be provided
adjacent to all streets.
(g) Off street parking requirements: Off street parking facilities shall be
provided in accordance with Section 912.164 of the Maplewood Municipal Code.
The following specific uses shall provide parking as indicated:
1. Offices. One parking space for each 150 square feet of gross floor
area.
2. Restaurants. One parking space for each 2 1/2 seats or 50 square
feet of floor area devoted to patron use, whichever is greater.
3. Retail uses and medical or dental clinics. One parking space for
each 150 square feet of gross floor area.
4. Hospitals. One parking space for each bed.
5. Convalescent hospitals. One parking space for each three beds and
one space for each employee.
All parking spaces shall measure 10 feet in width and 20 feet in length
and shall be provided with a 25 foot wide access drive.
(h) All lighting shall be designed and located so as to confine direct rays
to the premises. Lighting standards shall not exceed a height of 15 feet.
Lighting standards and fixtures shall be of a design and of materials that
are compatible with the architecture and the landscape architecture of
the site.
(i) Trash storage and loading area: All storage of cartons, containers and
trash shall be shielded from view within a building or within an area
enclosed by a wall not less than 5 feet in height. Such area shall not be
within the front or side yard building setback areas. Such enclosure shall
be of materials and design that is compatible with the architecture of the
main structure. All loading areas shall be screened from view from adjacent
properties by similar use of design and materials.
(j) All uses shall, unless otherwise specified, be contained entirely within a
completely enclosed structure. Parking facilities are exempted from this
requirement.
(k) Signs:
1. Identification signs - building. One identification sign shall be
permitted for each principal building. This sign shall not exceed
an area of 50 square feet, shall be attached flat against the building,
shall not project above the eave of the roof or the top of the parapet,
and shall be unlighted or provided with indirect illumination. Signing
for individual tenants may be approved by the City Council upon review and
approval of a total, comprehensive signing plan which provides for coordin-
ation amongst signs and compatibility with building architecture.
2. Identification Signs Appurtenant to Conditional Uses. Contemporaneous
with or subsequent to the granting of a special use permit pursuant to
Section 911 of the Maplewood Municipal Ordinance, the Planning Commission
may authorize the erection of identification signs pertinent to such
special use and may impose restrictions on their size, height, lighting,
shape, color, location and similar matters. The obtaining of this author-
ization and the erection of said signs in conformity with restrictions shall
constitute conditions to the exercise of said special use permit.
Any request for said authorization made subsequent to the granting of the
special use permit shall be deemed a further hearing on the said permit,
and shall be subject to the same requirements as the initial hearing.
3. Temporary Signs; Signs advertising the sale of the property, the avail-
ability of stores for rent or lease, and construction signs, shall be
permitted for a period not to exceed 60 days. Such signs shall not exceed
an area of 12 square feet, nor an overall height of g feet.
4. All other signs, banners, pennants and similar attention getting devices
are prohibited.
5. All sib -shall comply with Sections 202* 816 and 912 of the Municipal
Cade.
S-ection 205, &eferral &2 P99VIMit Design Reviamm Bo rd. Wheat in their judpwate
the Planning Commission determine that any consideration before them will be benefit-
ted by s review by the comm ity Design Review Board it shall be eupowered to contti
;its deliberation peadiA--
.such rises.
Section 106. ibis ordinance shall take effect after its passage and publication.
Passed by the City Ctnancil of the
City of Maplewood„ Rinreota this
16th day of ,Tmw ary, 1975.
Attu
Ayes - 5
Mays - 0
ORDINANCE fil fTn
An Ordinance Regarding
Commercial Office Diefriaf
Section 100. Purpose ano Intent. The CO, Commerelat,
Ofiica.District, is establ (shed primarily to provide areas.
for, "darn opment of professional and Administrative
office!, related uses together with supportive, lav In-
fensl"mlyfeFtial uses in locations in close Proximity
to residential afteal where such uses can gpmeniently
wells the public and to create a suitable amilronmeld
for sbch uses and buildings especially designed for ther
Purposes, located on sites large enough to provide room
for appropriate sepaeation of uses, landscaped Olson
scams and off street parking facilities.
This district is intended to Dc located yet Matily on
heavily traveled streets or adlawt to commercial a
industrial districts and Is designed to lessen the impact
of these uses on resldentlal areas.
Section 101. Permitted uses. In a commercial office
District unless otherwise provided in this code, no
building or use of land shall be erected, structurally
altered or expanded except for one or more of the
following uses.
(a) Professional Offices,
(b) Administrative Offices;
(O Medical and tleetal offices and clinics;
(it) Finenclal offices, stock brokerages, banks and
savings and loans, real estete offices and other general
business offices:
(a) Related commercial uses:
Incidental services Such as restaurants, pharmacies,
and retail sales which serve primarily the occupants
and patrons of the Permitted office use, when conducted
within the same building. Related commercial uses
Shall not exceed 75 Percent Of the total net floor area Of
(t) Supportive Commercial 'uses:
The following free standing uses may be permitted
upon approval by the City Council M a special ex
caption: Specially or gift slormalfice supply, ticket
agency, travel service, opticlals and similar uses. The
uses Provided for in this subsection may be the sole use
Of a particular property or building Or may be combined
with any permitted or conditional uses allowed in the
district upon compliance with the necessary special
exception pr Special use procedures,
Section 102. COMlllonal Uses. The following uses are
Permitted subsequent to revilw and approval of a
(a) Medical and dental laboratories, hot including the
manufacture Of pharmaceutical or all products for
general sales and distribution:
(b) Public and quasi public uses appropriate to the
district such as hospital, convalescent hospitals and
professional, businesses and technical schools;
(c) Public utility and service buildings, structures
atg uses appropriate to the district;
It is the intent of this subsection to provide for uses
which supply public or quasi public services which are
of a substantially automated nature or require only
periodic maintenance Such as water pumping Stations,
Mephonle relay or switching facilities and similar uses.
It is not irdanded that Office facilities, maintenance
dispatching depots or any use which ge erases regular
daily use and or traffic would fell within this definition.
(d) Restaurants;
In keeping with the intent and purpose of the CO
District a restaurant use does wt include a drive in or
any restaurant commonly referred to as "fast food" or
"frses ism" wherein the elrppphasis is on automobile
oriented clienteled
and whha any simble proportion
of the total activity js imtolyed in take cut orders in
tended for consumption Met than will the buildilg.
Questions of me applicability of this definition to an
individual proposal shall be reviewed by the Planning
Commission which shall forward a recommwyation to
the City Council far final determination.
(3) Any other Office use which is determined to be the
some general character as the above uses.
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
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__ publisher and printer of the newspaper known m Maplewood Review,
and .ha, full knowledge of the facie herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in the
English language in newspaper format and in column and shout form equivalent in printed apace to at
least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and to distributed at treat once each week.
(e) Said newspaper hos 50 percent of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the com-
munity, which it purporfa to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and la not made
up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (d) Said newspaper is circulated in and near
the municipality which it purports to serve. has at Imat 500 copies regularly delivered to paying
subscribers, has an average of at least 75 percent of Its total circulation currently paid or no mora than
three months in arrears and has entry An seconddeem matter in its local pogL ffice. (5) said newspaper
no in the Village of North St. Paul in said county, established and open during its regular
aces boom for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and main -
by the publisher of said newspaper or persona in his employ and subject to hie direction load
d during ail such regular business hours at which said newspaper is printed. (6) Said newa-
film a dopy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper hoe
ied with all the foregoing conditions for at least two ymee preceding the day or dates of VON! -
mentioned below. (6) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior
wary 1, 1966, and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary
Its and signed by the publisher and sworn to before a pottery public atatiag that the nowopaper is
I newspaper.
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Section 103. Interpretation of Permitted or Con,
ditional Uses. Where there is a question concerning the
appropriateness of a particular use as permitted w
conditional within the CO zone the Planning Com
mission shall review the question and forward a
recommendation t0 the City Council for final deter
mination.
Section 104. Site Development Standards. The
establishment, operation and maintenance of the uses
permitted by Sections 100 through 104 shall be in
compliance with the following standards:
(a) Minimum building site area: 20,000 square ieet
(b) Minimum building site width 100 feet
(c) Minimum building site depth: 200 feet
(d) Building height limit: 5 stories and not to exceed
50 feet
(e) Maximum building site coverage. 35 percent
.(f) Building setbacks:
Adjacent to residential
Building shall be setback a minimum of 50 feet or
twice the building height whichever is greater from any
property line where adjacent property is zoned for or
developed to residential uses. A 25 foot wide landscape
area shall be provided adjacent to any residential area.
Non Residential
In all other instances a 15 foot setback or a setback
equal to 50 percent of the height of the building,
whichever is greater shall be observed from side and
rear property lines. A 30 foot setback shall be provided
adjacent to all streets.
(g) Off street parking requirements: Off street
Parking facilities shall be provided in accordance with
Section 912.160 of the Maplewood Municipal Code.
The following specific uses shall provide parking as
indicated:
1. Offices. One parking space for each 150 square feel
of gross floor area.
2. Restaurants. One parking space for each V'. seats
or 50 square feet of floor area devoted to patron use,
whichever is greater.
3. Retail uses and medical or dental clinics One
Parking space for each 150 square feet of gross floor
area.
4. Hospitals. One parking space for each bed.
5. Convalescent hospitals. One parking space for each
three beds and One space for each employee.
All parking spaces shall measure 10 feet in width and
20 feet in length and shall be provided with a 25 foot wide
access drive.
(h) All lighting shall be designed and located so as to
confine direct rays to the premises. Lighting standards
shall not exceed a height of 15 feet. Lighting standards
and fixtures shall be of a design and of materials that
are compatible with the architecture and the landscape
architecture of the site.
Ill Trash storage and loading area. All storage of
cartons, containers and trash shall be shielded from
view within a building or within an area enclosed by a
wall not less than 5 feet in height. Such area shall not be
within the front or side yard building setback areas.
Such enclosure shall be of materials and design that is
compatible with the architecture of the main structure.
All loading areas shall be screened from view from
adjacent properties by similar use of design and
materials.
(j) All Uses shall, unless otherwise specified, be
contained entirely within a completely enclosed
structure. Parking facilities are exempted from this
reQuirement.
(k) Signs:
1. Identification signs - building. One idemification
sign shall be permitted for each principal building. This
sign shall not exceed an area of 50 square feet, shall be
attached flat against the building, shall not project
above the eave of the roof or the fop of the parapet, and
shall be unlighted or provided with indirect
illumination. Signing for individual tenants may be
approved by the City Council upon review and approval
of a total, comprehensive signing plan which provides
for coordination amongst signs and compatibility with
building architecture.
2. Identification Signs Appurtenant to Conditional
Uses. Contemporaneous with or subsequent to the
granting of a special use permit pursuant to Section 911
Of the Maplewood Municipal Ordinance, the Pianning
Commission may authorize the erection of identification
signs pertinent to such special use and may impose
restrictions on their size, height, lighting, shape, color,
location and similar matters. The obtaining of this
authorization and the erection of said signs in con
formity with restrictions shall constitute conditions to
the exercise of said special use permit.
Any request for said authorization made subsequent
to me granting of the special use permit shall be deemed
a further hearing on the said permit, and shall be
subject to the same requirements as the initial hearing.
3. Temporary Signs. Signs advertising the sale of the
property, the availability of stores for rent or lease, and
construction signs, shall be permitted for a period not to
exceed 60 days. Such signs shall not exceed an area of 12
square feet, nor an overall height of 8 feet.
d. Ali Other signs, banners, pennants and similar
attention getting devices are prohibited.
5 All signs shall comply with Sections 202. E18 and :12
of the Municipal Code.
Section 105. Referral to Community Design Review
Board. When, in their judgment, the Planning Com
mission determines that any consideration before their,
will be benefitted by a review by the Community Design
Review Board it shall be empowered to continue its
deliberation pending such review.
Section 106. This ordinance shall take effect after its
passage and publication.
Passed by the City Council of the City of Maplewood.
Minnesota this 16th day of January, 1975
S Robert 1. Bruton
Mayor
Ariesi-. s- Lucille E. Aurelius
City Clerk
Ayes -5
Nays -0
Jan. 22. 1975)