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BOOK 61 PKA77 <br />Vice Chairman Scurlock wished to know what exactly is <br />included in the definition of a general office. <br />Planner Shearer clarified that they have a table in the new <br />non-residential zoning districts that has a category called <br />General Office and Financial Services. The General Office <br />referred to would not include the financial services; it would <br />include the other uses listed, which include health services, <br />insurance and real estate services, medically related offices, <br />optical firms and professional offices. <br />Vice Chairman Scurlock noted that this includes everything <br />from a low traffic generator to a very intense use; he did not <br />feel you can get a more intense use than a doctor's office. <br />Director Keating explained that staff was hoping to find a <br />compatible area where medical uses would not necessarily be <br />limited to a hospital node, and when they did an analysis of the <br />types of offices allowed as special exception uses in multi <br />family zoning districts, they did not find any consistent pattern <br />for differentiating between medical offices and other types of <br />general professional offices. <br />Discussion followed about the fact that this will only apply <br />to multi family areas on arterial roads, and Director Keating <br />clarified that these roads would be those classified as arterial <br />on our County Thoroughfare Plan, such as U.S.1, SR 60, 27th <br />Avenue, Kings Highway, CR 510, CR 512, A -1-A, 17th Street, etc. <br />Commissioner Bird believed at one time we said there might <br />be an instance where this use might be compatible with single <br />family on roads such as these, but apparently staff is limiting <br />this to multi family. <br />Director Keating felt if the offices were a realistic use, <br />it would be possible to rezone such a single family area to <br />multiple family and reported that actually we have such a case <br />right now where some single family on SR 60 came in for rezoning <br />to multi family. <br />32 <br />