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B. Minimum Requirements: See Section 1005.01. 1005.06: B-4 RETAIL OFFICE SERVICE DISTRICT: The B-4 Retail Office Service District is designed to provide a limited mix of land uses, made compatible through controls and high quality standards, to facilitate more intensive, larger, and higher valued development and redevelopment areas for the regional market. This district allows opportunities to integrate high quality offices, hotels, restaurants, retail uses and selected office and manufacturing uses visible from state or county roads. The B-4 Retail Office Service District is intended for certain areas designated as B Business area in the Comprehensive Plan. A. Permitted, Accessory, and Conditional Uses: See Section 1005.015. B. Minimum Requirements: See Section 1005.01. The following minimum requirements shall also apply in all B-4 Districts: 1. Building Height; Floor Area Ratio: No limit shall be placed on the height of buildings in the B-4 District, nor shall any minimum floor area ratio be required. However, buildings over 40 feet in height shall have front lots not less than 3/4 of the height of the building and side and rear yard setbacks of not less than 1/2 of the height of the building. 2. Outdoor Storage: There shall be no outdoor storage of equipment, materials, or products. 1005.07: B-6 MIXED USE BUSINESS PARK DISTRICTS: The B-6 Office Park District is designed to provide a high quality office, clinic, hotel, and research complex with multiple stories. Because the intent is to create tall and dense office towers, there is no height limit in this district. This district is normally located adjacent to and is visible from state or county roads. The B-6 Office Park District is intended for selected areas designated as B Business area within the Comprehensive Plan. A. A mixed use business park land use designation is defined as a geographically identifiable area containing a consistent architectural mix of office, office-laboratory, office-showroom- warehousing, biotechnical, biomedical, high-tech software and hardware production uses with support services such as limited retail, health, fitness, lodging and multifamily housing. A "Mixed Use Business Park" is a redevelopment area, in which the environmental impacts of business park have been analyzed through an environmental impact statement or similar. The impacts are then mitigated within the requirements a Planned Unit Development as defined in Section 1008. All parcels shall have well-planned roads, utilities, ponding and communication systems. Parcels within a "Mixed Use Business Park" shall have access to an internal parkway and/or external County roads as well as convenient access to the . Interstate Highway System. Emphasis shall be placed on creating a unique, safe and high- quality work and play environment by installation of extraordinary, architecturally distinct buildings, parkways, transit and transportation services, site planning, landscaping, parks, pedestrian pathways, and lighting. B. A B-6 district may be established after completion and city approval of a mixed-use master plan for the entire district and completion of any required or voluntary environmental review such as an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or Alternate Urban Area Review (AUAR) as defined by the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board rules. Uses permitted within a B-6 district shall comply with Section 1008 of this Code by completing a Planned