Neighborhood business district
(a) Purpose and intent. The purpose and intent of the neighborhood business district is to encourage the continued growth and vitality of town villages. Development in this district should meet the following objectives:
(1) Provide areas within and adjacent to residential neighborhoods where groups of businesses may be located to:
a. Serve the frequent commercial and service needs of residents within convenient traveling distances.
b. Serve as a transitional zone between more intensive business areas and residential neighborhoods.
c. Provide a district for business activities which do not generate the traffic, noise, glare or large parking areas associated with large-scale business uses.
(2) Encourage traditional development design and mixed use development appropriate to village centers.
(3) Serve the traffic-carrying capacity of the town's road system by concentrating certain uses within village centers, thereby reducing the overall traffic burden.
(4) Preserve the residential, rural, agricultural and historic characteristics of the community by encouraging new development to its village centers.
(5) Strengthen the role of the neighborhood as a support for the village retail center and in turn to keep each village center to a scale that services its neighborhood without an undue dependence on automobile-borne customers.
(6) Provide for a visual center for each village.
(7) Promote unified physical, visual and spatial characteristics that are compatible with each village's traditional development pattern.
(b) General requirements. General requirements are as follows:
(1) On-site parking shall be located to the rear of the principal structure, but not in the required minimum rear or side setback or required buffer area.
(2) The front yard setback shall be the average of the existing setbacks on the same side of the street as the subject site for a distance of 500 feet on both sides. Principal buildings shall front at this setback or no more than five feet behind it. If the latter, the area between the building and the street line shall be landscaped with appropriate material (e.g., bricks, concrete, stone pavers, but not asphalt) and appropriately planted, signed and lit. Properties in the neighborhood business district shall be exempt from subsection 21-306(a).
(Ord. No. 95-3, § 1, 5-8-1995)
Cross reference— Licenses, permits and miscellaneous business regulations, ch. 9.