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294 <br />Article 3: Base Zoning Districts <br />Section 3.4: General Commercial Districts <br />Lot t) Size, min. (square I 40,000 [1] <br />Lot Width, min. (feet) 1 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 />This district will usually be applied where the following conditions <br />exist: <br />Rear Setback, min. <br />(feet) <br />None [2] <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-,-49F <br />n <br />2. Water and sewer mains exist at the site or are to be made <br />Height, max. (feet) <br />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 dis osal. <br />Ratio ,!R <br />. 01 <br />492 <br />DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS NOTES: <br />F ooifA tmax <br />:r <br />NR, CU0 <br />[1] Lot size for individual uses shall be appropriate to the method <br />of water supply and sewage disposal. <br />Required Open Space <br />NR <br />[2] Required side and rear setbacks adjacent to residentially <br />Ratio, min. <br />NR -CU <br />71 <br />zoned land shall be equal to the required side or rear setback of <br />the adjacent residential district. <br />Goss <Lsa pal �� <br />�,� <br />25600% <br />[3] Two feet of additional height shall be allowed for one foot <br />i %rrtax <br />x <br />s uare feet; <br />)� <br />t NRCU`" <br />fr fir_< <br />norm <br />increase of the required front and side setbacks. <br />� � <br />� � <br />Required <br />NR <br />[4] R = residential, NR = non - residential, CU = conditional use. <br />Pedestrian /Landscape <br />NR -CU <br />.178 <br />Ratio. min. <br />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 />" 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 <br />Page 3 -26 <br />