Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 120 - Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission
Chapter 10 - Zoning Regulations for the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning District
Subchapter 3 - Specific District Regulations
Section 120:10-3-25 - Office Commercial District (CO)

Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 120:10-3-25

Current through Vol. 41, No. 7, December 15, 2023

(a) General description. The Office Commercial District (CO) is intended to provide a place for institutional and commercial activities that will service the Zoning District and which require separate buildings and building groups surrounded by landscaped yards and open area.

(b) Uses permitted. Property and building in an Office Commercial District (CO), shall be used only for the following purposes:

(1) Multi unit dwellings containing not less than 8 living units per building.

(2) Office building.

(3) Accessory buildings and uses typically associated with the uses permitted in this Section.

(c) Conditional uses permitted on review. The following uses may be permissible on review in accordance with the provisions listed in OAC 120:10-13-19:

(1) Any uses permitted in a High Rise General Residential District (RD-4).

(2) Research laboratories housed completely within enclosed buildings, and which the Commission determines are not more objectionable due to the emission of smoke, noise, dust, odor, and blast than office building operation.

(3) Hotels.

(4) Motels.

(d) Height regulations. No building shall exceed the height limitations set forth in OAC 120:10-5-3.1 of this Chapter.

(e) Area regulations.

(1) Front yard. The minimum depth of the front yard shall be 25 feet. When a lot has double frontage, the front yard requirements shall be complied with on both streets.

(2) Side yard. Main and accessory buildings shall be set back from all side lot lines not less than 1 foot for each 2 feet of building height.

(3) Rear yard. Main buildings used for residential purposes shall be set back from all rear lot lines not less than 25 feet or 1 foot for each foot of building height, whichever is greater. All other main buildings shall be set back from all rear lot lines 1 foot for each 3 feet of building height or fraction thereof.

(f) Intensity of use. A lot occupied by an 8 unit dwelling shall contain an area of not less than 12,000 square feet, and for each additional dwelling unit in the building 1,000 square feet of lot area shall be added.

(g) Coverage.

(1) Main and accessory buildings for uses other than residential use shall not cover more than 40% of the lot area on interior lots and 45% of the lot area on corner lots, and in no case shall the gross floor area of main and accessory buildings exceed the total area of the lot.

(2) Main and accessory buildings for uses other than residential shall not cover more than 40% of the lot area of interior lots and 45% of the lot area for corner lots, and in no case shall the gross floor area of main and accessory buildings exceed 1 1/2 times the total lot area.

(3) Not less than 20% of the lot area shall be maintained as and remain landscaped open area and shall not be used for any other purpose including off-street parking.

(h) Off-Street Parking. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed and constructed in accordance with Subchapter 7 and Subchapter 17 of this Chapter.

Added by Oklahoma Register, Volume 34, Issue 24, September 1, 2017, eff. 9/11/2017

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