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BILL NO, 2002-9
AMENDMENT TO RICHFIELD CITY ZONING CODE
CREATION OF SECTION 524
THE CITY OF RICHFIELD DOES ORDAIN:
Sec. 1. Appendix B of the Richfield City Code is amended by adding a new
section 524 as follows:
524.01. Service Office District (SO-1 ). Subdivision 1. Subsections
524.01 to 524.19 apply to the SO-1 District.
Subd. 2. Service Office defined. A Service Office use is a low
intensity business that is primarily oriented to providing professional
services to individual customers in a small office environment.
Service and office uses do not include retail sales.
Subd. 3. Purposes. The purposes of the SO-1 District are to:
a) provide appropriately located areas where Service Office uses
may locate;
b)
provide opportunities for Service Office uses to concentrate for
the convenience of the public and in mutually beneficial
relationship to each other;
c) permit the development of Service Office uses according to
standards that minimize adverse impacts on adjacent uses;
d) provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern
development, including off-street parking areas, and
landscaping;
e) minimize traffic congestion and avoid the overloading of
utilities by preventing the construction of buildings of excessive
size in relation to the surrounding land, buildings, and
infrastructure; and
f) protect Service Office uses and neighboring properties from
noise, odor, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, traffic, fire,
explosion, noxious fumes, and other objectionable or
hazardous influences.
524.03, Permitted uses. Subdivision 1. The uses listed in this
subsection are permitted uses in the SO-1 District (excluding those listed in
subsections 524.07 and 524.09):
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Subd. 2. Executive, administrative, and nonprofit organization
offices with 4,000 square feet or less of gross floor area.
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Subd. 3. Business offices such as, but not limited to, insurance
offices, real estate offices, loan companies, savings and loan
associations, and sales offices with 4,000 square feet or less of gross
floor area.
Subd. 4. Professional offices such as, but not limited to, medical
offices, including medical clinics and medical laboratories; dental
clinics; chiropractic offices; therapeutic massage centers licensed
under section 1188 of the City Code; offices of engineers, architects,
and accountants; auditing, bookkeeping and legal offices; and studios
of artists and photographers with 4,000 square feet or less of gross
floor area.
Subd. 5. Service businesses providing services on the premises
with 4,000 square feet or less of gross floor area. The following
service businesses only are permitted: photocopying, non-auto repair
shops (such as watch or shoe repair), tailor shops, beauty parlors and
barbershops. Hours of operation for these businesses are limited to
no earlier than 6:00 a.m. and no later than 9:00 p.m.
Subd.6. Multi-tenant office developments with 6,000 square feet or
less of gross floor area.
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Subd.7. Religious institutions and related convents and
parsonages.
Subd, 8, Nursing or rest homes.
Subd. 9. Minor public utilities.
Subd. 10. Governmental buildings and public libraries, including
their appurtenances.
524.05. Accessory uses. Subdivision 1. The uses listed In this
subsection are allowable accessory uses in the SO-1 District.
Subd. 2. One accessory building that is 750 square feet or less in
gross floor area.
Subd.3. Parking, as authorized by a council approved off-street
parking permit.
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Subd. 4. Assembly or warehouse operations incidental to a
permitted or conditional use, provided such use occupies no more
than 30 percent of the gross floor area of the principal building.
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Subd. 5. Accessory satellite dish antennas and other antennas and
towers that are incidental to the principal use on the premises,
provided that they conform to section 425 of the City Code and that
they do not extend higher than 15 feet from the antenna or related
structure's point of contact with the building to the highest point of the
antenna, except as provided for in subsection 524.07, subd. 4 of this
Code.
Subd.6. Commercial Wireless Telecommunication Services
(CWTS) antennas and related features, the use of which is not
incidental to the principal use; provided that they conform to section
426 of the City Code, are located on the rooftop or near the roof-line,
screened from public view to the extent possible, and do not extend
higher than 15 feet from the antenna or related structure's point of
contact with the building to the highest point of the antenna, except as
provided for in subsection 524.07, subd. 5 of this code.
Subd.7. Fences, walls, and hedges as permitted In subsection
511.23 of this code.
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Subd. 8. Apartments within commercial buildings, provided such
use occupies not more than 50 percent of the gross floor area of the
principal building.
Subd. 9. Other uses customarily associated with, but incidental to
the principal use, as determined by the City pursuant to subsection
511.05 of this code.
524.07. Conditional uses. Subdivision 1. The uses listed in this
subsection are conditional uses in the SO-1 District, and are subject to the
conditional use permit provisions outlined in subsection 546.05 of this
code.
Subd. 1. Office and service uses as allowed in subsection 524.03,
subdivisions 2, 3, 4, and 5 with more than 4,000 square feet of gross
floor area.
Subd. 2. Multi-tenant office developments as allowed in subsection
524.03, subdivision 6 with more than 6,000 square feet of gross floor
area.
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Subd.3. Licensed day care facilities with no more than 5,000
square feet of gross floor area, provided the following conditions are
met:
a)
pick-up and drop-off areas must be located on the site, and
must be designed to avoid interfering with traffic and
pedestrian movements;
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b) outdoor recreational areas must be located and designed in a
manner that mitigates visual and noise impacts on any
abutting residential parcels; and
c) such facilities must obtain all applicable state, county, and city
licenses.
Subd. 4. Accessory roof-mounted antennas that extend higher than
15 feet from the antenna or related structure's point of contact with
the building to the highest point of the antenna, provided that they
conform to section 425 of the City Code.
Subd. 5. cwrs antennas and related features that extend higher
than 15 feet from the antenna or related structure's point of contact
with the building to the highest point of the antenna, provided that
they conform to section 426 of the City Code.
Subd. 6. Major public utilities.
Subd.7. Other uses similar to those conditionally permitted by this
section, as determined by the City pursuant to subsection 511.05 of
this code.
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Subd. 8. Apartments within commercial buildings that exceed 50
percent of the gross floor area of the principal building.
524.09. Prohibited uses. The uses listed in this subsection are prohibited
in the SO-1 District:
Subd. 1 All uses not included under permitted, accessory, or
conditional uses are prohibited in the SO-1 District.
524.11. Lot area, width, depth, and covera~e. Subdivision 1.
Standards. The standards set out in this subsection apply in the SO-1
District.
Subd.2. Minimum lot area: 8,000 square feet.
Subd. 3. Minimum lot width:
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b)
Interior lot: 60 feet.
Corner lot: 75 feet.
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Subd. 4. Minimum lot depth: 100 feet.
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Subd. 5. Maximum impervious surface coveraqe: 75 percent.
524.13. Required buildinq setback and maximum heiqht. Subdivision
1. Standards. The standards set out in this subsection apply in the SO-1
District.
Subd. 2. Required setback and maximum heiqht:
30 Ft.
8 Ft.
15 Ft.
20 Ft.
Subd. 3. Additional setback requirement: vehicle access door
facing a side or rear lot line. Whenever any building (principal or
accessory) is located in such a manner that a vehicle access door
faces a side or rear lot line, such side or rear setback requirement
must be not less than 20 feet.
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Subd. 4. Additional setback
requirement: all structures located on a
corner lot that abuts a key lot. On a
corner lot that abuts a key lot, the
streetside side setback requirement of
such corner lot must be not less than 30
feet. (Figure 12)
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Subd. 5. Front setback _ reduction:
principal buildings. The front setback
requirement for a principal building on a
lot may be reduced to no less than the
average front setback of the existing
principal building(s) abutting such lot, to a minimum of 25 feet, except
that this provision does not apply if any single family lot faces the
same street and lies between the same two cross-streets.
Subd.6. Interior side setback reduction: principal and accessory
buildinqs. Whenever an interior side lot line abuts a non-residentially
zoned parcel, such interior side setback requirement may be reduced
to ten (10) feet for principal and accessory buildings.
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Subd.7. StOry limitations. Principal buildings must not exceed two
stories in height, and accessory buildings must not exceed one story
in height.
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524.15. Additional requirements for accessory buildinqs and uses.
Subdivision 1. The requirements set out in this subsection apply to
accessory buildings and uses in the 50-1 District.
Subd. 2. No accessory building on any lot, except through lots,
may be situated forward of the front building line of the principal
building. In the case of a through lot, no accessory building may be
located within 30 feet of the lot lines abutting either street.
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Subd. 3. In the case of a corner lot, no accessory building may be
located in the yard area between the principal building and either
street.
Subd. 4. The required setback between an accessory building and
any other building on the lot is governed by section 400 of the City
Code.
Subd. 5. No accessory building may be located on any lot prior to
the time of construction of the principal building on the lot, unless
specifically approved by the City Council.
Subd. 6. The architectural design and building materials of an
accessory building must be similar to the principal building.
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Subd.7. No accessory building may be greater in lot coverage than
the principal building, or greater in height than the principal building.
524.17. Conduct of business operations. Subdivision 1. The following
restrictions apply in the SO-1 District.
Subd. 1. No retail sales are allowed in the SO-1 district other than
sales directly resulting from service, maintenance, or repair work.
Subd. 2. No services regulated under section 1187 or 1196 of the
city code are allowed in the SO-1 District.
Subd. 3. No business may operate without an approved off-street
parking permit on file with the department of community development.
524.19. Additional requlations and requirements. Subdivision 1. The
regulations and requirements set out in this subsection apply to buildings
and uses in the SO-1 District.
Subd. 2. Developments must be constructed and maintained In
accordance with the applicable performance standards set out In
section 541 of this code.
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Subd. 3. Signs within the SO-1 District are governed by subsection
416.07 subdivision 2 (c) of the City Code.
Subd. 4. Where no alley is present, a rear yard area that abuts any
residential parcel must not be used for parking, loading, or storage
within eight feet from the rear lot line.
Subd. 5. All property located within a design district or corridor
overlay district is subject to such district's additional requirements
and/or modifications.
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Passed by the City Council of the City of Richfield, Minnesota this 9th day of April,
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Martin J. Kir~M'ayor
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City of Richfield
(Official Publication)
SUMMARY PUBLICATION
BILL NO. 2002-9
AMENDMENT TO RICHFIELD CITY ZONING
CODE; CREATION OF SECTION 524
The City Council has adopted Bill No. 2002-9, an ordi-
nance entitled "Amendment to Richfield City Zoning Code;
Creation of Section 524." This summary of the ordinance
is published pursuant to Section 3.12 of the Richfield City
Charter.
The purpose of this ordinance is to establish a new zoning
district known as Service Office (SO-I) for service-office
uses. The new district is intended for low intensity busi-
ness uses primarily oriented to professional services uses
in small office environments. The ordinances identifies
the uses that are permitted, principal uses, permitted ao-'
cessory uses, uses allowed by conditional use permit, and
prohibited uses in the Service-Office district. The ordi-
nance also establishes parcel and building requirements,
including minimum lot size, building setbacks and maxi-
mum building height. Copies of the full text of the ordi-
nance are available for public inspection in the City Clerk's
office during normal business hours or upon request by
calling 612-861-9760.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the city clerk is di-
rected to keep a copy of the ordinance in her office at city
hall for public inspection and to post a full copy of the or-,
dinance in a public place in the City for a period of two,
weeks. I .
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Richfield, Min- i I
nesota this 23rd day of April, 2002.
Martin J. Kirsch, Mayor
ATTEST:
Nancy Gibbs, City Clerk
(May 1, 2002)0212002-9