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Article 3: Base Zoning Districts <br /> 12 <br /> Section 3.4: General Commercial Districts <br /> DIMENSIONAL . RATIO STANDARDS <br /> COMMUNITY Lot Size, min. (square <br /> COMMERCIAL <br /> feet) 2,000[1] <br /> PURPOSE <br /> Lot Width, min. (feet) 20 <br /> The purpose of the Community Commercial-3(CC 3)District is <br /> to provide suitably located and sized sites for commercial,office Front Setback from ROW, 50 <br /> and service uses designed to serve a county-level market area. min. (feet) <br /> Performance standards will be used to insure the absence of <br /> adverse impacts beyond the zoning district boundaries of the <br /> use. <br /> Side Setback, min. (feet) None[2] <br /> APPLICABILITY <br /> This district will usually be applied where the following Rear Setback, min. (feet) None[2] <br /> conditions exist: <br /> 1. Existing community commercial type developments on sites <br /> that are within areas designated by the adopted Comprehensive Height, max. (feet) 45[3] <br /> Plan as a Commercial Transition Activity Node(CTAN)or <br /> Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Node(CITAN). R-CU[4] <br /> Floor Area Ratio, max., if .400 <br /> 2. In the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition area, new located outside of a CTAN <br /> NR <br /> developments of a CC-3 nature should be controlled by the or CITAN NR-CU .459 <br /> appropriate Conditional Use designation. <br /> Floor Area Ratio, max., if R-CU 60 <br /> 3. Use would serve a market area population extending to located within a CTAN or NR <br /> major segments of the county and its municipalities. CITAN NR-CU .65 <br /> 4. Generally, for property designated Transition in the adopted Required Open Space R-CU <br /> Comprehensive Plan urban services such as water supply and Ratio, min.,if located NR 72 <br /> Com <br /> p pp y outside of a CTAN or <br /> sewerage would exist or be made available as part of the CITAN NR-CU <br /> development process. For property located in other areas,the <br /> water supply and sewage disposal shall be appropriate to the Required Open Space <br /> uses proposed and the site conditions. Ratio, min., if located <br /> within a CTAN or CITAN <br /> Required Livability Space R-CU .44 <br /> Ratio, min. <br /> Required Recreation R .197 <br /> DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS NOTES: Space Ratio, min. R-CU 200 <br /> [1] Lot size for individual uses shall be appropriate to the R-CU 5,000/ <br /> method of water supply and sewage disposal. Gross Land Area, none <br /> [2]Required side and rear setbacks adjacent to residentially min./max. 425,600/ <br /> zoned land shall be equal to the required side or rear setback of (square feet) NR-CU 1,273,54 <br /> the adjacent residential district. 4 <br /> [3]Two feet of additional height shall be allowed for one foot Required <br /> increase of the required front and side setbacks. Pedestrian/Landscape NR <br /> [4]R=residential, NR=non-residential, CU=conditional use. Ratio, min., if located NR-CU .18 <br /> outside of a CTAN or <br /> CITAN <br /> Required <br /> Pedestrian/Landscape NR .05 <br /> Ratio,min.,if located NR-CU <br /> within a CTAN or CITAN <br /> Orange County,North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 3-24 <br />