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ORDINANCE 6389
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An Ordinance to amend the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance adopted by
the Board of Commissioners of Richmond County and the City Council of
Augusta effective November 15, 1983, entitled "An Ordinance to Readopt
and Reconfirm the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance adopted March 25,
1963, by the Board of Commissioners of Richmond County and the City
Council of Augusta, by amending Section 20, P-1 (professional) Zone of
the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.
THE AUGUSTA COMMISSION HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. That the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance is amended by deleting Section
20, P-1 (professional) in its entirety:
SECTION II. That the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance is amending by adding the
following as the new Section 20, P-1 (professionaVOffice) Zone:
20-1 Permitted Uses:
(a) General offices where no retail or wholesale sales are conducted resulting
in the exchange of goods on the premises and where no vehicles or
equipment other than standard passenger vehicles (cars, vans, and pickup
trucks) are parked or stored on the premises.
(b) Physicians, lawyers, engineers, architects, and similar professional uses
which may occupy an entire building or group of buildings.
(c) DELETED.
(d) Branch banks or other financial institutions.
(e) Freestanding Automated Teller Machines.
(f) DELETED.
(g) Provision of the following services where no retail or wholesale activities
are conducted on the premises: insurance, finance, mortgage, accounting,
appraisal, business consultant, real estate, and other similar services.
(h) Beauty shops, barber shops.
(i) Uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses located within the
same building or group of buildings and accessory buildings, when located
on the same lot, including garages for the use of patrons and for
employees.
(j) Public parking areas, when located and developed as in Section 4 and
where the area adjoins a use other than provided for in the R-1 Zone,
provided such transitional use does not extend more than one hundred
(100) feet from the boundary of the less restricted zone.
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Fence, walls: A fence, latticework screen, or wall in a required side or
rear yard shall not exceed six (6) feet in height. ,A fence, "latticework
screen, or wall located in a required front yard shall be limited to four (4)
feet in height. Any fence, wall, or landscape feature located at the corner
of intersection streets described in Section 3,.6 of this Ordinance shall be
subject to additional restrictions discussed in that subsection.
20-2 Special Exceptions: The following may be permitted in a P-l Zone by Special
Exception:
(a) Facilities for public or private assembly such as conference center,
convention centers, meeting rooms, hospitality facilities (if utilized
for more than fourteen total days per calendar year), and facilities
utilized for similar social events. Applications for special
exceptions pursuant to this subsection shall be accompanied by
supportive documentation which describes in detail the services to
be provided and the proposed use and development of the site.
This supporting documentation shall illustrate conformity to the
following objective and subjective criteria. Special exceptions
granted pursuant to this subsection shall be specifically for the use
described, and they shall be invalid and automatically rescinded if
the use changes substantially or ceases to exist for a period of one
year:
(1) Exterior lighting shall be designed so that the light is
reflected away from adjacent properties;
(2) If there are any single-family residences on adjoining
properties then all outdoor activities shall cease at 11 :00
P.M.;
(3) Only one sign per street front shall be permitted. Such sign
may identify the business only, not to exceed 24 square feet
in area, and extend not higher than. six feet above the
ground. No such sign may be intern all)' lighted;
(4) Alcoholic beverages may not be sold on the premises. An
open bar where guests are not charged for drinks may be
provided;
(5) The volume of amplified sound shall be kept at such a level
that it is not audible from any single-family residence;
(6) Parking facilities shall be provided as the staff deems
necessary;
(7) The design and scale of any improvements shall be
consistent with the surrounding area;
(8) Improvements shall conform to all appropriate provisions
of the Tree Ordinance; and
(9) Additional conditions may be imposed if deemed
appropriate to the proposed use and location.
(b) Any use permitted in the R-3C zone, subject to the
restrictions and regulations of the R-3C Zone.
20-3 Height: Not to exceed three (3) stories nor higher than fifty-five (55) feet.
20-4 Setbacks:
(a) Front Yard: The front setback provisions oftlie R-3A Zone shall apply to
the P-l Zone;
(b) Side Yard: The side yard setback provisions of the R-3A Zone shall apply
to the P-l Zone;
(c) Rear Yard: The rear yard setback provisions of the R-3A Zone shall apply
to the P-l Zone;
20-5 Maximum Individual Building Area: No individual building, whether
freestanding or attached as part of a planned center or similar group of buildings,
may be constructed in excess of 15,000 gross square feet in area after the effective
date of the Ordinance amendment.
SECTION III. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Done in Open Meeting under the Common Seal thereof this
1st d f
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May
,2001.
APPROVED THIS 1st
day of
May
,2001.
1st reading 4-17-01
MAYOR, AUGUS
AUGUSTA,
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Publsihed in the Augusta Chronicle May 10, 2001