§ 59-8300. - Commercial and office use unit classifications.
Commercial and office use unit classifications include the distribution, sale or rental of goods, and the provision of services other than those classified as civic uses.
8300.1. Administrative and Professional Offices. Offices of firms or organizations providing professional and executive management or administrative services. Typical uses include advertising agencies, architectural and engineering offices, corporate offices, data management and computer software consulting, government offices, financial institutions, investment brokers, law offices, non-profit organization offices, real estate offices and other office uses that generate a low proportion of vehicle trips or walk-in traffic attributable to visitors or clients in relationship to employees. This use does not include Personal Services (59-8300.58 and 59-8300.59).
8300.2. Adult Day Care Facilities. Any place, home or institution, which, for periods of over six hours in a 24-hour calendar day or for more than 20 hours per week, provides supervision and care, but not housing, for six or more individuals for part of the 24-hour day on either a temporary or ongoing basis.
8300.3. Adult Entertainment Uses. Amusement or entertainment which is distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on acts or material depicting, describing or relating to "Sexual Conduct" or "Specified Anatomical Areas" including, but not limited to, topless or bottomless dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or similar entertainment. Such uses also include, but are not limited to, adult bookstores, adult motion picture theaters, adult motels, massage parlors, sexual encounter centers and adult motion picture arcades.
8300.4. Agricultural Supplies and Services. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail or wholesale sales from the premises of feed, grain, fertilizer, pesticides and similar goods, as well as the provision of agriculturally-related services with incidental storage on lots other than where the service is rendered. Typical uses include feed and grain stores, crop dusting supply stores and tree service firms.
8300.5. Alcoholic Beverage Retail Sales. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages. Typical uses include liquor stores.
8300.6. Animal Interment Services. Interring services involving the permanent disposition of animal bodies. Typical uses include animal cemeteries.
8300.7. Animal Sales and Services: Auctioning. Auctioning of livestock on a wholesale or retail basis with incidental on-site storage of animals on a temporary basis not to exceed a 48-hour period. Typical uses include animal or livestock auctions, or livestock auction yards.
8300.8. Animal Sales and Services: Grooming. Grooming of dogs, cats and small domestic animals. Typical uses include dog bathing and clipping salons, or pet grooming shops.
8300.9. Animal Sales and Services: Horse Stables. Boarding, breeding or raising of horses not owned by the occupants of the premises, or riding of horses by other than the occupants of the premises. Typical uses include boarding stables or public stables.
8300.10. Animal Sales and Services: Kennels and Veterinary, General. Kennel and veterinary services for domestic animals, with accessory outdoor storage, exterior animal enclosures and dog runs permitted. Typical uses include animal and veterinary hospitals, boarding and breeding kennels, pet motels, and animal training centers.
8300.11. Animal Sales and Services: Kennels and Veterinary, Restricted. Kennel and veterinary services for small domestic animals, such as dogs, cats or other household pets, with all operations and storage conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include animal or veterinary hospitals, boarding and breeding kennels, pet motels, and animal training centers.
8300.12. Automotive: Parking Garages. Transient parking (non-storage) of automobiles or non-commercial vehicles, within an enclosed structure of one or more stories, with or without a fee. A parking garage shall be considered a primary structure and not an accessory use for purposes of applying the development regulations of a district.
8300.13. Automotive: Parking Lots, as a Principal Use. Transient parking (non-storage) of automobiles or non-commercial vehicles within an off-street parking area, with or without a fee. This use unit does not refer to parking areas contiguous to a residential, commercial, industrial or civic development which have been provided to meet parking requirements for the use and are permitted as a part of the use.
8300.14. Automotive and Equipment: Cleaning and Repairs, Light Equipment. Establishments or places of business engaged in the washing, polishing and light repair of automobiles, and the sale, installation and service of automobile equipment and parts, but excluding body repairs and painting. Typical uses include automated car washes and facilities for manual washing, and repairing of light motor vehicles, including quick oil change operations, tire and muffler shops, transmission repair, tune-up shops or auto glass shops.
8300.15. Automotive and Equipment: Heavy Repairs, Heavy Equipment. Repair of motor vehicles, such as aircraft, boats, recreational vehicles and trucks, as well as the sale, installation and service of automotive equipment and parts, together with body repairs, painting and steam cleaning. Typical uses include engine replacement or rebuilding operations, truck transmission shops, body shops or motor freight maintenance facilities, and wrecking services, which include temporary storage of damaged vehicles.
8300.16. Automotive Auction. A facility that auctions passenger automobiles and trucks to automobile dealers or the general public.
8300.17. Automotive Vehicle Impound Yard and Damaged Vehicle Auctions. Tow-away lots and/or impound lots and lots used for the storage of damaged vehicles offered for sale and/or auction.
8300.18. Automotive and Equipment: Automobile Dealerships and Malls. A business that provides display space and centralized services for any number of automobile facilities that rents, sells or leases new or used passenger automobiles and trucks, and may have a vehicle showroom and multiple accessory uses, such as automobile maintenance and service, parts storage, and financial services on the same premises.
8300.19. Automotive and Equipment: Sales and Rentals, Farm and Heavy Equipment. Sales or rental from the premises of heavy farm or construction equipment, trucks, buses, trailers, aircraft or similar heavy mobile equipment, together with incidental maintenance.
8300.20. Automotive and Equipment: Sales and Rentals, Manufactured (Mobile) Homes and Recreational Vehicles. Sale or rental from the premises of equipment together with incidental maintenance, including paint and body repair facilities that are a part of the agency. Typical uses include motor home and travel trailer sales, manufactured (mobile) home sales, boat sales, and moving truck rental agency.
8300.21. Automotive and Equipment: Storage. Storage of vehicles used regularly in business operations and not available for sale or long-term storage, and facilities or structures for the storage of non-operating motor vehicles. Typical uses include new car dealer's off-site auto storage lots, taxi fleets, truck storage facilities or yards, and auto storage garages, but excluding junk or salvage yards.
8300.22. Bingo Parlors. An establishment engaged in the operation of bingo games, as authorized and defined in Title 3A O.S. § 401 et seq.
8300.23. Building Maintenance Services. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the sale, rental or repair of equipment and supplies used by office, professional and service establishments primarily to other firms, rather than to individuals, but excluding automotive, construction and farm equipment. Typical uses include office equipment and supply firms, janitorial services, disinfecting and exterminating services, and vending machines sales and services.
8300.24. Business Support Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services of a clerical, employment, protective or minor processing nature to firms, rather than individuals, and where the storage of goods or equipment, other than as samples or as necessary for daily operation, is prohibited. Typical uses include secretarial services, telephone answering services, blueprint services and reproduction services.
8300.25. Child Care Centers. Any day nursery, nursery school, foster home or preschool, or any place, home or institution which receives eight or more children under the age of 18 years and not of common parentage for foster care, apart from their natural parents, legal guardians or custodians, whether for compensation or not. This use shall not include public or private schools which offer before school or after school activities of an educational or recreational nature, and shall not include any non-profit corporation or organization, which receives eight or more children under the age of 18 years, and not of common parentage, for foster care apart from their natural parents, legal guardians or custodians, when received for periods not exceeding six hours in a 24-hour calendar day, and which operates no more than 20 hours per week. This use unit shall include Large Family Child Care Homes as defined in 10 O.S. 1998 Supp., Section 402. This use does not include Family Day Care Homes (8300.40).
8300.26. Commercial Blood Centers. Establishments engaged in extracting blood or plasma from individuals, and paying said individuals for the blood or plasma. This use unit does not include those facilities where blood or plasma is donated by individuals.
8300.27. Communication Services: Antennas. Any structure or device used to collect or radiate electromagnetic waves, including antennas and other equipment, such as whips but excluding satellite earth stations, to be used in connection with mobile cellular telephones, mobile radio systems facilities and commercial mobile services which are not located on a tower. This use unit shall be subject to use regulations set forth in Section 59-9350.19 C (Antennas).
8300.28. Communications Services: Broadcast Towers. Any tower used for radio and television broadcasting, and/or business dispatching or receiving antennas located on a tower, which are taller than 50 feet above ground level at grade and/or any broadcast tower attached to a building which is proposed to reach a height over 20 feet above the roof line of the building. Where a broadcast tower is permitted, a broadcast studio is permitted to locate on the same site. This use unit does not include any tower used for wireless and/or cellular telecommunications facilities, or any tower used for amateur uses, such as ham radio operations, if the tower is under a height of 50 feet.
8300.29. Communications Services: Limited. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of broadcasting and other information relay services accomplished through the use of electronic and telephone mechanisms, but excluding those classified as major impact services and utilities. Typical uses include television/radio studios and telecommunication service centers.
8300.30. Communications Services: Telecommunication Towers. Towers used for wireless and/or cellular telecommunications facilities. This facility is inclusive of the placement of the following referenced equipment on a communication tower 35 feet or taller: whip antennas, panel antennas, microwave dishes, cell enhancers, and related equipment for wireless transmission from a sender to one or more receivers, such as for mobile cellular telephones, mobile radio systems facilities and commercial mobile radio service. This term does not include small wireless facilities, as defined by state law.
8300.31. Construction Sales and Services. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in construction activities and incidental storage on lots other than construction sites. This includes wholesale or retail sales, from the premises, of materials used in the construction of buildings or other structures, but excluding equipment and uses found in Automotive and Equipment: Automobile Dealerships and Malls (59-8300.18). Typical uses include lumberyards and building materials stores, tools and equipment rental or sales, electrical supplies, plumbing supplies, and air conditioning or heating shops.
8300.32. Convenience Sales and Personal Services. Establishments or places primarily engaged in the provision of frequently needed, day-to-day retail commercial goods and services. Such uses are designed and intended to serve a limited local market, and to be generally within a short walking or driving distance of a residential area. Typical uses include small grocery stores, candy stores, ice cream parlors, dry cleaning establishments, barbershops, shoe repair shops, self-service laundries, newsstands, and body piercing and tattoo parlors, provided they do not exceed 10,000 square feet in area. Uses that create increased traffic, noise or other such impacts that would be considered incompatible with a residential use shall not be permitted.
8300.33. Drinking Establishments: Sitdown, Alcohol Permitted. Establishments or places of business where customers are seated and served and which are primarily engaged in the sale, mixing or dispensing of alcoholic beverages as defined by State law for consumption on the premises. Typical uses include a tavern or private club with minimal or no kitchen facilities and little or no food items served.
8300.34. Eating Establishments: Drive-In. Establishments or places of business with little or no inside seating where prepared food and beverages are consumed within a motor vehicle on the premises or are carried outside by the purchaser to tables. These uses are normally adjacent to high volume vehicular movement areas, and are characterized by either remote order of food from within the vehicle and delivery by attendants or by carry-out packages for consumption on or off the premises.
8300.35. Eating Establishments: Fast Food. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the sale of prepared food and beverages for both on- and off-premise consumption. These uses are normally adjacent to high volume pedestrian and/or vehicular movement areas, and are characterized by pre-packaged and pre-cooked foods, and a central ordering and serving point within the establishment.
8300.36. Eating Establishments: Fast Food, with Drive-Thru Order Window. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the sale of prepared food and beverages for both on- and off-premise consumption. The fast food restaurants within this use unit classification have drive-thru order windows that allow patrons to pick up food orders from their vehicles and encourage off-premises consumption.
8300.37. Eating Establishments: Sitdown. Establishments or places of business where customers are seated and served, and that are primarily engaged in the sale of prepared foods and beverages for on-premises consumption. They are located at high capacity/high volume sites that are easily accessed by vehicles and pedestrians. Typical uses include restaurants, short-order eating places, cafeterias, and coffee shops.
8300.38. Eating Establishments: Sitdown, Alcohol Permitted. Establishments or places of business where customers are seated and served and are engaged in the sale, mixing or dispensing of alcoholic beverages as defined by State law for on-premises consumption as accessory to the primary purpose of a restaurant operation. Typical uses include restaurants and short order eating places.
8300.39. Eating Establishments: Sitdown, Limited Alcohol Permitted. Establishments or places of business where customers are seated and served, and are engaged in the sale or dispensing of beer and wine as defined by State law for on-premises consumption as accessory to the primary purpose of a restaurant operation. Typical uses include restaurants and short order eating places, serving beer and wine.
8300.40. Family Day Care Homes. A family home that provides supervision, care and/or protection for seven or fewer children for part of the 24-hour day. This definition shall not include informal arrangements that parents make independently with neighbors or friends, nor shall it include the child's home. (An informal arrangement is a situation, not on a regular basis, where the caregiver is not compensated and no advertising is done in any way.) A Family Day Care Home shall be classified as a home occupation and subject to the applicable provisions thereof.
8300.41. Food and Beverage Retail Sales. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the retail sale of food and beverages for home consumption. Typical uses include grocery stores and delicatessens.
8300.42. Funeral and Interment Services: Cremating. Crematory services within a funeral home or within a special structure on the grounds of a cemetery involving the purification and reduction of the human dead by fire. A typical use includes crematoriums.
8300.43. Funeral and Interment Services: Interring. Interring services involving the permanent disposition of human bodies. Typical use is a cemetery, which may include on-site structures for such accessory uses as columbarium, crematoriums, funeral homes and mausoleums.
8300.44. Funeral and Interment Services: Undertaking. Undertaking services, such as preparing the dead for burial and arranging and managing funerals. Typical uses include funeral homes or mortuaries.
8300.45. Gasoline Sales, Large. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the on-site retail sale of petroleum products with incidental retailing. Typical uses include automobile filling stations. Road service tow trucks are permitted, but not temporary or permanent parking or storage of damaged, wrecked or inoperable vehicles. This use does not include facilities for semi-trucks and trailers.
8300.46. Gasoline Sales, Small: Restricted. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the on-site retail sale of petroleum products with incidental retailing. Typical uses include automobile filling stations. Road service tow trucks are permitted, but not temporary or permanent parking or storage of damaged, wrecked or inoperable vehicles. This use does not include facilities for semi-trucks and trailers. Small gasoline sales establishments shall be limited to two service islands and three gasoline pumps per island.
8300.47. Gasoline Sales: Truck Stops. Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in the on-site retail sale of petroleum products with incidental sale of tires and batteries, and replacement items, lubricating services and minor repair services for both vehicles and trucks. Other incidental uses may include the sale of prepared foods and beverages for on-premises consumption, along with sleeping and showering facilities. Typical uses include truck stops.
8300.48. Laundry Services. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing services other than those classified as Convenience Sales and Personal Services (59-8300.32). Typical uses include laundry agencies, diaper services or linen supply services.
8300.49. Lodging Accommodations: Bed and Breakfast. Lodging services that provide rooms for rent for short periods of time and meals only to those persons renting rooms in the establishment, and are the operator's personal residence and occupied by the operator at the time of room rental.
8300.50. Lodging Accommodations: Campgrounds. Campground services involving temporary accommodation areas for travelers, recreational vehicles or tents, including food, drink and other sales and services intended for the convenience of guests. Typical uses include recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds.
8300.51. Lodging Accommodations: Commercial Lodging. Lodging services that provide room accommodations for travelers and may include food, drink, and other sales and services intended for the convenience of guests and the broader public. Typical uses include hotels, motels and transient boardinghouses. Size and location of all retail facilities shall be subject to all the zoning district regulations in which the use unit is located.
8300.51.1 Lodging Accommodations: Home Sharing/short term rental or home sharing/short term rental accommodation: Lodging accommodations that are provided in a dwelling unit or room(s) in a dwelling unit for rent for a temporary period of time less than 30 consecutive days per renter/guest, and the dwelling unit is the host's primary residence; provided if the dwelling unit is located within a Historic Preservation District or said dwelling unit is not the primary residence of the host, a special exception must be obtained from the Board of Adjustment. The use of a dwelling unit for such purpose must meet the use standards of Section 9350.38.1 Lodging Accommodations: Home Sharing.
8300.52. Medical Services: General. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal health services, including related retail sales activities. Typical uses include medical offices, dental offices, dental laboratories, clinics and health maintenance facilities with related sales facilities, such as opticians or apothecaries in the same structure, but not including hospitals, convalescent centers or nursing homes.
8300.53. Medical Services: Restricted. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of personal health services, including the prevention, diagnosis and treatment or rehabilitation services provided by physicians, dentists, nurses and other health personnel, as well as the provision of medical testing and analysis services. Typical uses include medical offices, dental offices, dental laboratories, clinics and health maintenance organizations, but not including any sales facilities, hospitals, convalescent centers or nursing homes.
8300.54. Outdoor Sales and Display, and Outdoor Storage. Part of a lot permanently used for outdoor sales and display, and/or outdoor storage of goods in conjunction with or accessory to the principal use.
8300.55. Participant Recreation and Entertainment: Indoor. Those participant recreation and entertainment uses conducted within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alleys, billiard parlors, dance halls, gymnasiums, health clubs, skating rinks and arcades. Any spectators would be incidental to the participant recreation activity.
8300.56. Participant Recreation and Entertainment: Outdoor. Those participant recreation and entertainment uses conducted in open facilities. Typical uses include driving ranges, miniature golf courses, batting cages, go-cart tracks, drive-in theaters and amusement parks.
8300.57. Payday or Title Loan Agencies. An establishment providing loans to individuals in exchange for receiving personal checks or titles to the borrowers' motor vehicles as collateral.
8300.58. Personal Services: General. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of services to customers or clients which have one or more of the following characteristics: high customer volume, hand-carried parcel delivery or mailing facilities, overnight parking for small service or delivery vehicles, or sale of non-mercantile items such as postage stamps or public event tickets, and all activity takes place within a completely enclosed building. Typical uses include theater ticket offices, post offices, employment offices, motor vehicle licensing facilities, spas operated by licensed massage therapist and certified personal trainers and utility company business offices.
8300.59. Personal Services: Restricted. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of informational, instructional, personal improvement and similar services, which are able to be located in an office-type building. Typical uses include photography studios, travel agencies, reducing salons, dancing and music academies, automobile driving schools, and classrooms for business schools. Lodge and meeting halls including, but not limited to, a Masonic Lodge, V.F.W. Post and Shrine Temple, shall also be included in this use unit. Excluded are services which would be classified as Payday or Title Loan Agency (59-8300.57), Spectator Sports and Entertainment (59-8300.67, 59-8300.68 and 59-8300.69), Participant Recreation and Entertainment (59-8300.58 and 59-8300.59), or Lodging Accommodation (59-8300.49, 59-8300.50 and 59-8300.51).
8300.60. Personal Storage. Buildings containing enclosed individual rental storage facilities not exceeding 800 square feet per unit. These facilities are not used for sales purposes or storage of highly combustible materials. Typical uses include mini-warehouses and storage for recreational vehicles, boats or trailers. A single living quarters for caretakers and/or security personnel is permitted.
8300.61. Repair Services: Consumer. Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of repair services to individuals and households, rather than to firms. Typical uses include appliance repair, apparel repair, musical instrument repair, electrical repair, shoe repair and jewelry repair shops.
8300.62. Research Services: Restricted. Administrative offices plus research facilities of a technical or scientific nature which are located within a completely enclosed building. There is no product manufacturing and no outside storage, display or activity. Typical uses include electronics or medical research facilities, product testing laboratory or a pharmaceutical laboratory.
8300.63. Retail Sales and Services: General. Establishments engaged in the sale or rental of goods and services, both retail and wholesale, of commonly used goods, merchandise and services. Excluded are retail sales establishments that would be classified as Retail Sales and Services: Pawn Shops (59-8300.65).
8300.64. Retail Sales and Services: Outdoor Swap Meets. The display, exchange, barter or sale of new or used common household items or office equipment and furnishings, carried out on any open lot. Typical uses include flea markets where clothing, personal effects, household furnishings and household appliances are sold or otherwise exchanged.
8300.65. Retail Sales and Services: Pawn Shops. An establishment where used merchandise is sold at retail. This term includes pawn shops, but does not include antique or collectibles stores or other retail sales establishments that would be classified as Retail Sales and Service (59-8300.63, 59-8300.64 and 59-8300.65).
8300.66. Reserved.
8300.67. Spectator Sports and Entertainment: General. Establishments or places engaged in the provision of cultural, entertainment, athletic and other events to spectators, as well as providing space for social or fraternal gatherings. These uses are conducted in open facilities or within an enclosed building with a capacity of more than 500 people, and include retail sales, storage facilities and other activities incidental to the operation. Typical uses include large theaters and amusement places.
8300.68. Spectator Sports and Entertainment: High Impact. Establishments or places engaged in the provision of cultural, entertainment, athletic and other events to spectators as well as providing space for social or fraternal gatherings. These uses are conducted in open facilities or within an enclosed building with a capacity of more than 500 people, which may generate significant noise, odor, traffic or other impacts, and include retail sales, storage facilities and other activities incidental to the operation. Typical uses include drag strips, racetracks, fairgrounds, rodeo grounds, large exhibition halls, sports stadiums and arenas, and convention centers and trade expositions.
8300.69. Spectator Sports and Entertainment: Restricted. Establishments or places engaged in provision of cultural, entertainment, athletic and other events to spectators as well as providing space for social or fraternal gatherings. These uses are conducted within an enclosed building with a capacity of 500 or less people, and include retail sales and storage facilities that are incidental to the operation of such uses. Typical uses include small theaters and amusement places.
(Ord. No. 24726, § 4, 8-13-13; Ord. No. 25972, § 5, 7-31-18; Ord. No. 26081, § 4, 1-15-19; Ord. No. 26434, § 1, 4-28-20; Ord. No. 27526, § 5, 2-13-24, eff. 3-15-24; Ord. No. 27743, § 4, 12-17-24)