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Article 3: Base Zoning Districm <br /> Section 3.4: Conventional Commercial Districts <br /> DIMENSIONALCC-3 . RATIO STANDARDS <br /> COMMUNITY <br /> 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 ensure 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 <br /> 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). <br /> Floor Area Ratio, max., if <br /> 2. In the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition area, new located outside of a CTAN NR[4] .400 <br /> developments of a CC-3 nature should be approved as an or CITAN <br /> appropriate Conditional District. <br /> Floor Area Ratio, max., if <br /> 3. Use would serve a market area population extending to located within a CTAN or NR .60 <br /> major segments of the county and its municipalities. CITAN <br /> Required Open Space <br /> 4. Generally,for property designated Transition in the adopted Ratio, min., if located NR .72 <br /> Comprehensive Plan urban services such as water supply and outside of a CTAN or <br /> sewerage would exist or be made available as part of the CITAN <br /> development process. For property located in other areas,the Required Open Space <br /> water supply and sewage disposal shall be appropriate to the Ratio, min., if located .45 <br /> uses proposed and the site conditions. within a CTAN or CITAN <br /> DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS NOTES: Required Recreation R .197 <br /> [1] Lot size for individual uses shall be appropriate to the Space Ratio, min. <br /> method of water supply and sewage disposal. Required Pedestrian/ <br /> [2] Required side and rear setbacks adjacent to residentially Landscape Ratio, min., if NR .18 <br /> zoned land shall be equal to the required side or rear setback of located outside of a CTAN <br /> the adjacent residential district. or CITAN <br /> [3]Two feet of additional height shall be allowed for one foot Required Pedestrian/ <br /> increase of the required front and side setbacks. Landscape Ratio, min., if <br /> [4] R= residential, NR= non-residential located within a CTAN or NR .05 <br /> CITAN <br /> DEVELOPMENTCC-3 DISTRICT SPECIFIC D• -D <br /> 1. Uses shall be restricted to those indicated for the CC-3 District in Section 5.2, unless a Conditional District is <br /> approved (see Section 3.8).Additionally, non-residential uses are restricted based on the Watershed Protection <br /> Overlay District in which the property is located. Refer to Section 4.2.3 for land use restrictions. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 3-24 <br />