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24 Article 3: Base Zoning Districts <br /> Section 3.4: General Commercial Districts <br /> GC=4 DIMENSIONAL AND RATIO STANDARDS <br /> GENERAL <br /> Lot Size, min. (square 40,000[1] <br /> COMMERCIALfeet) <br /> PURPOSE <br /> Lot Width, min. (feet) 75 <br /> The purpose of the General Commercial-4(GC 4)District is to Front Setback from <br /> provide suitable situated and sized sites that allow a broad range ROW, min. (feet) 35 <br /> of commercial,office and service uses. Performance standards <br /> will be used to insure the absence of adverse impacts beyond <br /> the zoning district boundary. <br /> Side Setback, min. None[2] <br /> (feet) <br /> APPLICABILITY <br /> This district will usually be applied where the following conditions <br /> exist: Rear Setback, min. None[2] <br /> (feet) <br /> 1. The site is within an area designated by the adopted <br /> Comprehensive Plan as either a Commercial Transition Activity <br /> Node, or Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Node-er <br /> 17 <br /> 2. Water and sewer mains exist at the site or are to be made Height, max. (feet) 45[3] <br /> available as part of the development process or the lot size for <br /> individual uses are appropriate to the method of water supply <br /> and sewage disposal. <br /> Floor Area Ratio, max. NR[4] .492 <br /> DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS NOTES: NR-CU .566 <br /> [1] Lot size for individual uses shall be appropriate to the method Required Open Space NR <br /> of water supply and sewage disposal. Ratio, min. NR-CU .71 <br /> [2] Required side and rear setbacks adjacent to residentially <br /> zoned land shall be equal to the required side or rear setback of Gross Land Area, <br /> the adjacent residential district. min./max. NR-CU 425,600/ <br /> [3]Two feet of additional height shall be allowed for one foot (square feet) none <br /> increase of the required front and side setbacks. Required <br /> [4] R=residential, NR=non-residential,CU=conditional use. Pedestrian/Landscape NR .178 <br /> Ratio, min. p NR-CU <br /> DEVELOPMENT GC-4 DISTRICT SPECIFIC D• -D <br /> 1. Uses shall be restricted to those indicated for the GC-4 District in Section 5.2, unless a Conditional Use(CU) <br /> or MPD-CZ District is approved(see Section 3.8). Additionally, non-residential uses are restricted based on <br /> the Watershed Protection Overlay District in which the property is located. Refer to Section 4.2.3 for land <br /> 17 The Commercial-Industrial Land Use category is a discrete category on the Land Use and Zoning Matrix <br /> contained in Appendix F of the County's Comprehensive Plan but it is not described as a separate category and is <br /> not consistently referred to in the UDO. Staff believes this is an oversight that may have occurred in the late 1980's <br /> or 1990's when the Comprehensive Plan was changed to include a combined Commercial-Industrial Activity Node <br /> category on the Land Use Element Map and on the matrix,but other necessary updates were not made. Staff <br /> considers this to be a"clean-up"or"housekeeping"amendment to reflect intent and interpretation which will <br /> provide clarity and conciseness to the regulations. Note that a Comprehensive Plan amendment is also proposed as a <br /> separate item to fix these inconsistencies. <br /> Orange County,North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 3-26 <br />