15800 Snow Rd Brook Park, OH 44142-2852

1121.24 U-3B OFFICE BUILDING DISTRICT. (a) Intent. A U-3B Office Building District and regulations are established to achieve, among others, the following purposes: (1) To provide, in appropriate and convenient places, sufficient area for the development of office buildings, public buildings and institutions; (2) To provide a desirable setting for such development; (3) To minimize the interference to the flow of traffic along major arterial streets by requiring parking and regulating access driveways, and (4) To protect adjacent residential areas by restricting the type of use and by requiring yards and buffer features along common boundaries. (b) Regulations. Buildings and land shall be used and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered, moved or maintained only for the uses specifically set forth as permitted in a U-3B Office Building District and not for uses enumerated in a prior or subsequent use classification of this Zoning Ordinance unless such uses are expressly permitted. (1) The main buildings or main uses as set forth and permitted shall be the only buildings and uses permitted therein by right. The accessory buildings or uses as set forth shall be permitted therein by right as a subordinate building or use, provided such use is planned and developed integrally therewith and clearly incident thereto and located on the same zoning lot as the main building or use. (2) A building designed and occupied as a residence cannot be occupied in whole or in part by another use unless the building is redesigned to express the new function and reconstructed so that it will fully accommodate the proposed use, and a lot occupied by a dwelling shall not be occupied by any other main use permitted herein or an accessory use other than accessory to the dwelling. (3) Existing dwellings within a U-3B Office Building District shall be construed as a legal nonconforming use and may be continued, extended, altered, enlarged, relocated, moved and maintained subject to all lot area, building area, coverage and yard regulations of the nearest adjoining residential district. (c) Permitted Uses. Buildings and land shall be used and buildings shall be designed, erected, altered, moved and maintained in whole or in part in a U-3B Office Building District only for the uses set forth in the following schedule and regulations: (1) Main buildings and uses permitted. A. Office buildings. 1. Administrative; executive; financial; governmental; professional, including medical laboratories and clinics; public utility; real estate. 2.