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RBC Recreational Business Campus.
The purpose of the RBC district is to provide areas for professional office, general office, research and development, hotel, conference facilities, low to medium intensity retail, health and fitness clubs, executive style housing, retirement housing, active recreational activities and other specified uses in a business campus environment integrated with activities dependent on significant areas of open space such as golf courses, marinas, and/or nature and wildlife preserves.
(a) Uses permitted by right:
Active recreation.
Amphitheater.
Athletic fields.
Automobile service.
Bake shop.
Barber/beauty shop.
Bank and lending institution.
Bocci ball fields.
Bowling alley.
Business service and supply.
Child care center.
Clinic, medical or dental.
Clubs/lodges/fraternal organizations.
Community use.
Conference facility.
Convenience center.
Convenience store.
Croquet field.
Dance studio.
Dance/exercise studio.
Drug store.
Dry cleaner/laundry.
Executive-style housing.
Flex office.
Florists.
General office use.
Gift/antique shops.
Golf course.
Golf driving range and practice area.
Health/fitness club or spa. 
High intensity commercial retail.
Horseback riding and stables.
Hotel/motel.
Laboratory, development, research and testing.
Light industrial use.
Light manufacturing use.
Low intensity commercial retail.
Marina.
Medical/dental office.
Medium intensity commercial retail.
Parks and playgrounds.
Passive recreation.
Private school and instructional facility.
Professional office.
Public facility/utility. *
Public Works excluding wastewater treatment facilities.
Racquetball/squash/handball courts.
Recreational facility.
Restaurant.
Retail food store (one such store shall be permitted per 500 acres of the district).
Retirement housing.
Skating rink.
Swimming pool/sauna.
Tennis court/club.
Theater.
Volleyball court/club.

(b) Conditional use permit:
Convention facility.
Helistop
Motor vehicle rental.
Nightclub.
Public facility/utility.**
Recreational enterprises not otherwise permitted as a matter of right in this district.
Schools.
Schools,vocational.
Vehicle fuel sales.

*- but not including generating facilities, substations, switching stations and wastewater treatment facilities which are permitted as a conditional use permit.

**- for generating facilities, substations, switching stations and wastewater treatment facilities (except for the expansion or modification to wastewater treatment facilities existing prior to October 17, 2006)


(c) Requirements:
(1) Intensity:
Allocated density (executive housing) . . . 1 du per 6 acres
Allocated density (retirement housing) . . . 7 du per 1 acre
Minimum open space ratio (executive housing) . . . 0.50
Minimum open space ratio (retirement housing) . . . 0.25
Maximum floor area ratio (office) . . . 1.00
Maximum floor area ratio (commercial retail) . . . 0.50
Maximum floor area ratio (hotel) . . . 0.75
Maximum floor area ratio (other) . . . 0.50
(2) Minimum yards: Feet
Front . . . 40
Side . . . 0 
Rear     . . 25
(Retirement housing)..........See Table 5.1, Cluster option for R-2 District


TABLE INSET:  

Multi-family  

Feet  

Front..........  

40  

Side..........  

0  

Rear..........  

25  

(3) Maximum building height ..........120 feet
(4) Minimum district size ..........500 acres
(5) Minimum lot area:
Retirement housing . . . See Table 5.1, Cluster Option for R-2 District
Executive housing . . . 1 acre


 -For multifamily structures, the minimum setback is thirty-five (350 feet from any public right-of-way, and thirty (30) feet from any other structure.
-Nonresidential buildings shall have an additional yard requirement of one foot for each foot of building height greater than fifty (50) feet.
-Retirement housing minimum yards-see Table 5.1, Cluster option for R-2 District.
-The gross area of all commercial retail uses shall not exceed ten(10) percent of the gross area of the district.
-The gross area of all retirement housing communities shall not exceed thirty (30) percent of the gross area of the district.


(Ord. No. 099-26, 7-13-99; Ord. No. 099-59, 11-4-99; Ord. No. 099-60, 11-4-99; Ord. No. 000-42, 6-20-00; Ord. No. 001-16, 4-10-01; Ord. No. 001-27, 5-1-01; Ord. No. 001-48, 9-13-01; Ord. No. 002-18, 4-2-02; Ord. No. 003-03, 7-1-03)




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