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18 Article 3: Base Zoning Districts <br /> Section 3.4: General Commercial Districts <br /> lSECTION 3.4: GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS <br /> DIMENSIONAL AND RATIO STANDARDS <br /> LC-1 <br /> LOCAL COMMERCIAL <br /> (square feet} <br /> PURPOSE Lat Width,min. 75 <br /> (feet) <br /> The purpose of the Local Commercial-I(LC-1)District Is to provide <br /> appropriately located and sized sites for limited commercial uses Front Setback from <br /> 15 <br /> designed to serve a population at the neighborhood and rural level ROW,min.(feet) <br /> with convenience goods and personal services. Performance <br /> standards will be used to insure the absence of adverse impacts <br /> beyond the immediate space occupied by the building. Side Setback,min. 15[2] <br /> (feet) <br /> APPLICABILITY <br /> This district will usually be applied where the following conditions <br /> exist Rear Setback,min. 15[2] <br /> (feet) <br /> 1. Site is located within areas designated by the adopted <br /> Comprehensive Plan as either a Commercial Transition Activity <br /> Node,a Commercial-industrial Transition Activity Node,a Rural 0 <br /> Community Activity Node or a Rural Neighborhood Activity Node.' <br /> Height,max. (feet) 25[3] <br /> 2. Uses would serve a market area population confined to the <br /> immediate area and would generally not serve commuters or <br /> persons outside the surrounding neighborhood. <br /> F <br /> R-!CU 1[4-], <br /> NR <br /> NR-CU <br /> Required Open R-CU .80 <br /> Space Ratio,min. NR <br /> DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS NOTES: NR-CU .79 <br /> [1]Lot size for individual uses shall be appropriate to the method of ,,Re 910 brl I <br /> ty <br /> R-CU, .6k, <br /> water supply and sewage disposal. PAW Rt[o mina <br /> [2]Required side and rear setbacks adjacent to residentially zoned Required R .074 <br /> land shall be equal to the required side or rear setback of the Recreation Space R-CU .077 <br /> adjacent residential district. Ratio, min. <br /> [3]Two feet of additional height shall be allowed for one foot Gros I Lq 5,0001 <br /> increase of the required front and side setbacks. I&,�4,�Td Area,� R-CU_ 11 none, <br /> [4]R residential, NR non-residential,CU conditional use. norfel, <br /> 61`41d t Nit-CU :Qf,344- <br /> Required NR .20 <br /> Pedestrian/ <br /> Landscape Ratio, NR-CU .198 <br /> min. <br /> 10 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 3-20 <br />