Section Reference

PERMITTED USE GROUPS

 

 

20-610.1

USE GROUP 1.[CoL1]   AGRICULTURAL-ANIMAL HUSBANDRY.  Agricultural uses and nearby residential uses:

1.        Agricultural Uses

Animal and poultry husbandry, dairying and pasturage, but not including the keeping of swine, the feeding of offal or garbage or retail sales on the premises; all other agricultural uses which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses; and (2) are not included in any other use group.

2.            Accessory Uses

 

 

20-610.2

USE GROUP 2.  [CoL2] AGRICULTURAL-FIELD CROPS.  Agricultural uses and accessory uses that are compatible with nearby residential uses:

1.        Agricultural Uses

Field crops, floriculture, greenhouse, horticulture, nursery, truck gardening or viticulture, but not including retail sales on the premises; all other agricultural uses which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses and (2) are not included in any other use group.

2.            Accessory Uses

 

 

20-610.3

USE GROUP 3.  RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED

Low density single-family detached residential uses, and accessory uses.

1.        Residential Uses

Single-family detached dwelling

2.        Group homes of 10 or fewer individuals

3.            Residential design manufactured homes

4.            Accessory Uses

 

 

20-610.4

USE GROUP 3A.  RESIDENTIAL-DUPLEX

1.              Residential Uses.  Single family dwelling or duplex

2.              Accessory Uses 

(Ord. 4247, Sec. 3)

 

 

20-610.5

USE GROUP 4[CoL3] .  RESIDENTIAL - MULTI-FAMILY.  Medium and high-density multi-family residences.

1.              Residential Uses

Multi-family dwelling, including duplex

Rooming and/or boarding house

Single-family attached dwelling (row house or

      Townhouse)

Bed & Breakfast establishment, except in the RM districts it is not  permitted in RM-D and RM-1

2.              Accessory Uses

(Ord. 6048, Sec. 1; Ord. 6382)

 

 

20-610.6

USE GROUP 5.  RESIDENTIAL-DORMITORY.  High-density residential uses other than those multi-family uses permitted in Use Group 4.

1.   Residential Uses

Apartment hotel

Dormitory-type residence hall

Fraternity

Sorority

2.   Accessory Uses

 

 

20-610.7

 

USE GROUP 6.  RESIDENTIAL - MOBILE HOME PARK[CoL4] 

1.   Residential Uses

Mobile homes park

2.   Accessory Uses (Ord. 6048, Sec. VII)

 

 

20-610.8

USE GROUP 7.  COMMUNITY FACILITIES - PUBLIC UTILITIES  (a) may appropriately be located in residential areas to provide education, recreation, health, and other essential services and, (b) do not create significant objectionable influences in residential areas.

1.   Community Facilities

Adaptive reuse of properties listed as a landmark on the Lawrence, State or National Registers of   Historic Places or included in the Lawrence or National Register of Historic Districts

Art gallery or museum

Cemetery, columbarium, or mausoleum

Child care center

Child care home - occupant primary provider

Child care home - non-occupant primary provider

Church or other place of worship, including student center

Club or lodge, private, except those whose chief activity is carried on as a business

Communication Towers

Community building, public

Golf course, but not including commercially operated driving range, pitch and putt course or miniature golf course

Halfway house or service-oriented rehabilitation center or residence

Health center, government operated

Hospital, general, not including animal

Institution for children and aged, nonprofit

Library or museum: public or private, open to public without charge

Monastery, convent or similar institution of religious training

Mortuary, funeral parlor, or undertaking establishment

Nursing home or rest home

Parish house, nunnery, rectory, etc.

Park, playground, or playfield, public

Private recreation facility (exclusive of family swimming pools and swimming pools that are accessory uses to hotels, motels and apartments)

Rehabilitation center for persons with disabilities

Sanitarium

School, public, parochial, or private, non-profit:

   (a)  Grades nine and below including kindergarten

   (b)  Grades ten and above

Studio for professional work or for teaching of any form of fine arts  e.g. photography, music, dancing, drama, etc.

Swimming pool, accessory

Theatre, live (if indoors)

2.   Public Utilities

Electrical substation

Gas regulator station

Radio or television transmitter or tower

Sewage disposal plant, private

Telephone exchange, but not including garage, shop,  or service

Water filtration plant, pumping station, elevated storage or reservoir

3.   Similar Uses

All other uses which (1) are similar to the

listed uses in function,     traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses and (2) are not included in any other use group.

4.   Accessory Uses

(Ord. 6359; Ord. 6382; Ord. 6489)

 

 

20-610.9

 

USE GROUP 8.  TEMPORARY USES[CoL5] 

(a)       Uses of a non-residential nature which need to be located in residential areas on a temporary basis.

(b)       Uses of a commercial nature which are temporary and where in duration, traffic generation, or intensity, are allowable in residential neighborhoods or as accessory commercial uses to established commercial operations.

1.              Temporary Uses - Non-residential Nature

Automobile parking lot, for special event

Batching plant, asphaltic or Portland cement, concrete, non-commercial

Construction building and/or yard

Earth moving and excavation; depositing construction materials, clay,

     earth, gravel, minerals, rock, sand or stone on the ground

Off-street parking and loading

Tract office

All other temporary uses which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses and (2) are not included in any other use group.

2.              Temporary Uses - Commercial Nature

Special Events

Temporary outdoor sales area as an accessory use to an established

     commercial operation

Licensed transient merchant's temporary structures as defined in Chapter  6, Article 8, of the City Code. (Ord. 6698)

 

20-610.10

USE GROUP 9.  PROFESSIONAL OFFICES.  Offices for medical, professional and governmental purposes and accessory use, not including retail sales to the public, that are of a nature that may be located adjacent to or combined with residential uses without harmful effects to said residential uses.

1.  Medical and Related Offices

Chiropody, chiropractic, dental, electrology, medical, optical, optometric,

osteopathic, including a clinic

2. Ambulatory (Outpatient) Surgery Center

3. Professional [CoL6] and Governmental Offices

Accounting, architecture, engineering, governmental, insurance sales,

 law, real estate and sales and brokerage, motion picture studios (enclosed)

4. Veterinarian Office and incidental boarding, with no open kennel or yard where animals are confined or exercised

5.   Financial Institutions[CoL7] 

6.   Studio for professional work or for teaching of any form of fine arts  e.g. photography, music, dancing, drama, etc.

7. Other Offices

All other offices which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.

8. Accessory Uses.

(Ord. 6287; Ord. 6770; Ord. 7047 rev.)

 

20-7A04.3

USE GROUP 9A.  LIMITED SERVICES.  These uses are limited in development, intensity and traffic-generating capacity to uses which are compatible with established residential neighborhoods.

 

1.   Bank, savings & loan, and trust company

Dry cleaning outlet store

Freestanding automated banking or dispensing facility

Funeral home, mortuary or undertaking establishment

Laboratory, medical or dental

Loan office

Personnel services[CoL8] 

Photographic studio

Post Office branch facility

Professional cleaning services

Radio and television studio

Recording studio

School, commercial or trade, when not involving  any danger of fire or explosion, nor of  offensive odor, noise, dust, glare, heat,  vibration or other objectionable factors

Secretarial service

Studio for professional work or for teaching of any form of fine arts i.e. photograph, music, dancing, drama, etc. 

Telephone answering service

2.             Accessory Uses

 

 

20-709.8

 

USE GROUP 10[CoL9] .  OFF-STREET PARKING.  Off-street parking areas and accessory uses for customer parking or parking for a fee.

1.   Off-Street Parking

Off-street parking lot, fee or customer

(Ord. 6702)

 

 

 

20-709.9

 

USE GROUP 11.  INNER NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL USES.  These uses are

limited in development, intensity and traffic-generating capacity to uses which are compatible with established residential neighborhoods.

1.          Bicycle sales, rental or repair

Book store, new or used

Dry cleaning outlet store

Food store, not including 24 hr. convenience store

Hair care establishment

Laundry, self-serve

Professional Offices (excluding medical and veterinarian offices and clinics)

Quick copy center

Restaurant, not including one with drive-up facilities or service to automobiles

Retail bakery

Reverse vending machines (recycling)

Shoe repair service

Small collection facilities (recycling)

Studio for professional work or for teaching of any form of fine arts i.e.  photography, music, dancing, drama, etc. 

2.          Accessory Uses

(Ord. 6578; Ord. 6777)

 

 

 

20-709.10

USE GROUP 12.  RETAIL STORES - PERSONAL SERVICES.  Certain types of retail stores and service establishments which:

(a)  Provide for a wide variety of local consumer and transient needs, and

(b)      Have a small service area and are, therefore, not distributed widely throughout the city.

(1)         Retail Stores and Service Establishments

Altering, pressing, repairing of wearing apparel

Antique sales

Appliance, furniture, home furnishings, sales, rental repair

Art supply sales

Automobile service stations

Bank, savings & loan and trust company

Barber or beauty shop

Bicycle sales, rental, repair

Book sales

Bowling alley[CoL10] 

Camera or photographic supply sales

Clothing sales

Club or lodge, whose chief activity is carried on as a business

Computer store; sales, service and equipment

Confectionery store

Department store

Drug store

Dry cleaning

Eating place, enclosed, without dancing or entertainment and not   providing service in  automobiles

Florist shop and greenhouse

Food convenience store, including gasoline sales and single-bay auto wash     (Ord. 6205)

Food store, including retail bakery

Furrier shop, including storage of furs

Garden supply sales

Gift, novelty, souvenir sales

Hardware store and small tool rental, but not including sales of lumber or  industrial hardware

Hat blocking and repair

Hobby supply sales

Ice vending machine

Interior decorating shop

Jewelry sales and repair

Laundry pick-up station

Laundry, self-service only

Licensed premises

Liquor, wine and beer sales, for consumption off the premises

Loan office

Locksmith, key shop

Mail order agency

Music, musical instrument and phonographic record sales

Newsstand

Nursery stock sales

Optical goods, sales

Orthopedic or medical appliance sales

Paint and wall paper sales

Pawnshop (Ord. 5033)

Photographic processing

Photographic studio

Post Office

Quick copy or duplicating center

Radio and television studio

Reading room

Sewing machine sales and repair

Shoe repair and sales

Sporting goods sales

Surgical and dental supply sales

Theatre, indoor commercial

Variety store

Video store, sale or rental of video equipment, movies and games parlor[CoL11] 

2.          Similar Uses

Other uses which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic- generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.

3.          Accessory Uses

(Ord. 6578)

 

 

 

20-709.11

USE GROUP 13.  AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES; RETAIL SALES; OTHER.  Primarily automotive service establishments and accessory uses, including consumer and non-consumer retail goods and services not appropriate for the neighborhood shopping district, including certain goods and services for agricultural, industrial, commercial, or institutional use.

1.          Automotive Services and Retail Sales

Aircraft sales, rental, service

Ambulance service

Amusement park, commercial

Auction room auctioneer

Automobile parking garage

Automobile parts store; tires & accessories

Automobile repair and services

Automobile sales, service, rental (new and used)

Automobile service station

Barber and beauty equipment sales

Baseball park, commercial

Blueprinting and similar reproduction processes

Boat and marine sales, rental and repair

Bus passenger station

Business machine rental, repair, sales

Car or truck wash

Carnival or circus

Carting, crating, express hauling, moving and storage

Caterer

Eating establishment, enclosed, with dancing or entertainment

Eating establishment, providing only drive-up service or no seating facilities

Exterminator, pest

Food convenience store, including gasoline sales

Food locker plant, for consumer use

Free standing automated banking or dispensing facility

Funeral home, mortuary, or undertaking establishment

Garage or parking for common or public utility vehicles

Glass sales and cutting shop

Golf driving range, commercial, (pkg. requirement applies to tee area only)

Golf pitch and putt courses, miniature golf course

Home improvement center

Hotel

Laboratory, medical or dental

Leather goods, sales and repair

Linen supply, diaper service, uniform supply

Liquids, flammable, underground storage of

Lumber, limited sales

Media Store (Ord. 7226)

Mobile homes, sales and service

Monument sales, including incidental processing

Motel

Motorcycle sales, service and rental

Office equipment and supplies, sales and service, rental and repair

Pet shop

Photostatting

Plumbing fixture sales

Quick copy or duplicating center

Recording studio

School, commercial or trade, when not involving any danger of fire or explosion, nor of offensive odor, noise, dust, glare, heat, vibration or other objectionable factors

Secretarial service

Sex Shop (Ord. 7226)

Sexually Oriented Media Store (Ord. 7226)

Skating rink, commercial

Studio for professional work or for the teaching of any form of fine arts, music, drama, etc.

Swimming pool, commercial (parking requirements include pool area)

Taxidermist

Telephone answering service

Theatre, drive-in

Trailer sales and rental

Transit vehicle storage and servicing

Truck rental and sales

2.          Similar Uses

Other business services which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects upon other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.

3.          Manufacturing Uses

Baked goods, candy, delicatessen, and ice cream, all for retail sales on the premises only

Clothing:  custom manufacturing or altering for retail, including custom dressmaking, millinery, or tailoring

4.          Accessory Uses

(Ord. 6578)

 

 

 

20-709.12

USE GROUP 14.  RETAIL - WHOLESALE SALES AND SERVICES.  Consumer and non-consumer type retail and wholesale stores and service establishments and accessory uses that serve a wide area, including the entire city and surrounding trade area.

1.          Retail - Wholesale Goods and Services[CoL12] 

Automobile body shop

Blacksmith shop

Building materials and lumber yards (parking requirements do not apply to

      lumber sheds)

Cold storage plant

Contractor or construction offices and shops

Dry cleaning plant, including carpet cleaning

Farm equipment sales, service and repair

Feed and fertilizer sales

Freight depot, railroad or truck

Hardware, industrial sales

Ice plant

Machine tools, sales, rental, repair

Mini-warehouse facilities

Pawnshop

Sexually Oriented Cabaret (Ord. 7226)

Sexually Oriented Motion Picture Theatre (Ord. 7226)

Warehousing establishment

Wholesaling establishment, including storage

2.          Similar Uses

Other uses which (1) are similar to the listed uses in function, traffic-generating capacity, and effects on other land uses, and (2) are not included in any other use group.

3.          Accessory Uses

(Ord. 6768)

 

 

 

20-709.13

USE GROUP 15.  AMUSEMENT, RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL FACILITIES.  Uses similar in nature and traffic-generating capacities that appeal to large groups of people or that provide uses with high density (people to space) ratios whose primary intent is one of amusement or recreational pursuits or cultural enrichment.

1.          Indoor Recreational Amusement or Cultural Facilities

Athletic club

Auditorium

Bowling alley

Field house

Game arcade, including video games

Physical culture center and health services, including spas, gymnasiums, educing  salons, masseur/masseuse, or hot tubs

Skating rink

Swimming pool, commercial

Theatre, indoor

2.          Outdoor Amusement, Recreational or Cultural Facilities

Baseball park or batting cages, commercial

Golf driving range or putting greens, commercial

Golf, miniature or pitch and putt

Marina

Race track

Stadium or amphitheater

Swimming pool, commercial

3.          Similar Uses

Other uses not specifically mentioned in this or any other use group which are similar in function and traffic-generating capacity to those specifically listed in this use group.

4.          Accessory Uses

Uses which meet the requirements of the definition of accessory uses, Sections 20-2002(2) and 20-2002(3).

(Ord. 5658, Sec. IX)

 

 

 


 [CoL1]Use Group not allowed in PCD-2

 [CoL2]Use Group not allowed in PCD-2

 [CoL3]Possible use for space on 6th & 7th floors (equivalent to 30 hotel rooms with regard to space allocation)

 [CoL4]Use not allowed in PCD-2

 [CoL5]Add to Use Restrictions for this Development.

 [CoL6]Office uses associated directly with hotel functions are anticipated.

 [CoL7]Small banking branch or freestanding ATM would be plausible uses for the hotel and the neighborhood.

 [CoL8]Small studio for hair care, spa, salon would be plausible uses for hotel and the neighborhood.

 [CoL9]Recommend to restrict this use

 [CoL10]Unless accessory to hotel , not generally open to the public.

 [CoL11]As an accessory to hotel, not generally open to the public

 [CoL12]Applicant voluntarily willing to restrict this entire use group from allowed uses