A.

CBD Central Business District. This district accommodates uses found in a central city location and encourages high intensity, compact, urban development in a pedestrian-oriented setting. Retail, office, personal service, and institutional uses typically found in a central business district are allowed. To encourage more efficient building usage and to take advantage of the area's centralized location, second-story residential uses are permitted, as are high-density residential developments. Signage requirements shall be specifically tailored for a downtown setting.

B.

UMU Urban Mixed Use. This district is generally located in the fringes of central business districts and allows for the redevelopment of older commercial districts in a pedestrian-friendly manner. An Urban Mixed Use area may not represent the true downtown business core of a community. However, it contains development features (i.e., limited or no front yard setbacks, limited amounts of off-street parking) that often pre-date the implementation of land use regulations. Redevelopment of such areas, for both commercial and residential purposes, is encouraged.

C.

C-1 Light Commercial. This district accommodates a large variety of retail uses designed to meet the needs of individual neighborhoods or other relatively small geographic areas. Stores and shopping complexes are relatively small in size and designed to be compatible and integrated with adjoining residential neighborhoods. This zoning district was not created to accommodate retail uses that attract persons from outside the neighborhood or attract large numbers of passing motorists.

D.

C-2 Highway Commercial. This district accommodates retail services and distributive uses typically located along or adjacent to principal or minor arterials and require high visibility, good road access, and which cater primarily to passing motorists. Development in this district is designed to promote aesthetics and the safe and efficient movement of traffic so as to not unduly burden adjacent thoroughfares. As larger and more intensive developments create more significant impacts on adjoining neighborhoods, roads, and utility infrastructures, larger developments may be allowed in this zoning district. Most (C-2) zoning districts are located within the Urban Standards (US) overlay district.

E.

C-3 General Commercial. This district accommodates the broadest array of commercial uses of all the commercial zoning districts, some of which are not allowed in any other commercial zoning districts. Like the (C-2) district, the (C-3) district is intended to accommodate the community's larger and most intense commercial developments (outside of the central business district) and generally located within the Urban Standards overlay district.

F.

NBS Neighborhood Business Services. This district is designed primarily for local retail, offices, and personal services developed at relatively low intensity levels and are compatible with adjoining residential neighborhoods. It is not intended to accommodate retail uses which are designed to attract persons from outside the neighborhood or to attract large numbers of traveling motorists. Regulations for this district are designed to encourage the development of small, neighborhood-oriented retail areas.

G.

GPX Garden Parkway Interchange. This district accommodates an array of aesthetically pleasing and well-designed developments close to interchanges along the Garden Parkway. While developments near the interchange exits may be designed for automobile access and provide amenities to motorists using the Parkway, the district is intended to accommodate mixed residential, retail, service and office uses that are well-integrated, compact, and pedestrian friendly. This district is not intended to accommodate nor promote typical "strip commercial" developments typically found along roads that emanate from limited access road interchanges.

As indicated in Table 7.1-1, a wide variety of residential, retail, service, and office uses are allowed within the (GPX) district. This district promotes well-designed development that integrates a variety of uses. Lot by lot incremental development of parcels within an individual (GPX) zoning district is NOT recommended. Planned developments such as Planned Residential Developments (PRDs), Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TNDs), and Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) are strongly encouraged. Individual uses outside of these developments are limited to the following:

1.

Single-Family Dwellings.

2.

Convenience Stores.

3.

Hotels/Motels.

4.

Restaurants without drive-through facilities.

5.

Essential Services, Classes 1, 2, and 4.

Except for Single-Family Dwellings and Essential Services, all other uses listed above shall be subject to the issuance of a Special Use Permit.

For uses that existed when the (GPX) zoning was placed on a piece of land (i.e., a use shown above, or as a use within a PRD, TND or PUD) any expansion of a conforming use will be subject to the issuance of a Special Use Permit. Other uses not specifically listed in Table 7.1-1 as being allowed in the (GPX) district or otherwise allowed as part of a (PRD), (TND), or (PUD) shall be considered "non-conforming" and shall be subject to the provisions of Section 3.5.