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ORDINANCE NO. 2004-10-6876
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SEC. 126-117, PLANNED OFFICE PARK,
POP, OF CHAPTER 126, ZONING, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH,KENTUCKY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Sec. 126-117, Planned Office Park, POP, of Chapter 126,
Zoning, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, is hereby amended to read
as follows:
"Sec. 126-117. Planned Office Park, POP.
(a) Intent. The intent of this zone is to provide adequate space for offices,
communications related, educational, and research activities, and other
similar development in a park setting designed and operated for tenants who
may require access to high capacity information sharing, transmitting, and
receiving facilities and utilities. Furthermore, the zone is intended:
(1)
To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for attractive,
landscaped offices.
(2)
To insure compatibility of uses and operations within the Planned
Office Park District.
(b) Principal permitted uses.
(1)
Offices for business, professional, governmental, political, and
charitable organizations.
(2)
Banks, credit agencies, security and commodity brokers, credit
institutions, savings and loan companies, and holding and investment
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companies.
(3)
Computer and data processing centers.
(4)
Telephone exchanges.
(5)
Radio and television studios.
(6)
Cable television signal distribution centers and studios.
(7)
Ticket and travel agencies.
(8)
Kindergartens, nurseries and day care facilities.
(9)
Business colleges, technical and trade schools, educational
institutions.
(10)
Hospitals.
(11)
Parks (Public & Private).
(12)
Research, testing and development laboratories or centers.
(13)
Production facilities (high degree of scientific input, tech)
(14)
Educational, scientific & research organizations
(15)
Library
(c) Accessory uses. Accessory uses are those permitted uses that are clearly
incidental and subordinate to the permitted use.
(1) Offices for the limited display of merchandise.
(2) Personal service centers, including food service, only for employees,
residents, or visitors to any permitted use and having no direct access to
I' the exterior and having no display space, drive-through areas, or any signs
visible from the outside.
(3) Residential dwellings
(d) Conditionally permitted uses. The following list of uses are special exceptions
that will not impair the character of the district. As determined by the Board of
Adjustment, these uses cannot emit onto adjacent properties an objectionable
amount of hazardous and/or obnoxious emissions.
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These might be, but will not be limited to, smoke, odor, noise, glare, vibrations,
etc. These uses require written approval of the Board of Adjustment.
0) Libraries, museums, and histerie buildings.
(2) Facilities in connection with bona fide agricultural operations.
(3) Clubs (private and non -private).
(4) Satellite dish antennas.
(6) Airports and heliports.
(7) Hotels/motels or lodges with facilities specifically intended to serve
the needs of the park tenants.
(8) Drive-through facilities for sale of goods or services otherwise
permitted.
(10) Light manufacturing and assembly operations.
(11) Warehousing operations.
(12) Sit-down restaurants (Drive through not permitted).
e) Minimum lot requirements.
(1) Minimum area: One acre.
(2) Minimum frontage width: 100 feet per lot.
(f) Minimum yard requirements.
(1) Front: 50 feet.
(2) Side: 30 feet.
(3) Street side: 50 feet.
(4) Rear: 50 feet.
(5) Maximum coverage: 50 percent (building only, surface parking
excluded).
(6) Maximum height: Five stories, except that minimum yard standards
are increased by five feet for each story over three stories or 35 feet.
(g) Open space. At least 25 percent of contiguous Planned Office Park zoned
areas must be allotted to open space.
(h) Parking requirements. See section 126-71.
(i) Reserved.
(j) Landscaping.
(1) Generally. A minimum of ten percent of the entire lot shall be devoted
to landscaping. Up to 50 percent of this requirement may be credited
toward preservation of substantial naturally occurring trees,
shrubbery, wildflowers, water courses, and rock formations. Areas of
preservation should be inventoried and indicated on site plans.
(2) Parking lot landscaping requirements. For each 100 square feet or
fraction thereof of vehicular use area, a minimum of five square feet
of landscaped area shall be provided; this may be included inside of
islands, peninsulas, and other geometric devices used to encourage
vehicle circulation.
(3) Screening. In addition to subsection 0)(1) above, screening per
section 126-72(1) shall be provided in the rear yards of those lots,
which abut adjacent properties outside the POP zone. -
Minimum area. Amendments to the zone map for POP districts shall be:
(1) Free-standing zones: 40 acres.
(2) Expansion of existing: No minimum.
SECTION 2. That if any section, paragraph or provision of this ordinance shall be
found to be inoperative, ineffective or invalid for any cause, the deficiency or invalidity of such
section, paragraph or provision shall not affect any other section, paragraph or provision hereof,
Motion Form: 3-92B
OR Ar
it being the purpose and intent of this ordinance to make each and every section, paragraph, an
provision hereof separable from all other sections, paragraphs and provisions.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be read on two separate days and will become
effective upon summary publication pursuant to
ATTEST:
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Tammara S. Brock, City Clerk
Introduced by the Board of Commissioners September 28, 2004
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners October 12, 2004
Recorded by Tammara S. Brock, City Clerk, October 12, 2004
Published by The Paducah Sun, October 18, 2004
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