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Oak Ridge North City Zoning Code

Sec. 14

Neighborhood shopping center.

The owner or owners of any tract of land comprising an area of not less than two and one-half acres and not lying within a business district, may submit a development plan for a neighborhood shopping center. Such application shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of section 18 of this ordinance.

The city council may approve such application provided it conforms to the following:

1.

The uses permitted in the center be limited to that of the B-1 neighborhood business district as listed in section 7 of this ordinance provided it is designed as a single architectural unit with appropriate landscape and architectural treatment of the entire area.

2.

Reserved.

3.

That at least four times the gross floor area of the stores included in the development is provided in off-street parking areas, which are integral parts of the design of the unit plan.

4.

That the appropriate use of property adjacent to the area included in the plan will be fully safeguarded, and to this end the council may make such requirements as it deems necessary.

5.

That satisfactory evidence be submitted that the automobile parking areas and the landscaped area will be properly constructed and maintained.

6.

That the plan is consistent with the intent and purposes of this ordinance to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare.

(Ord. No. 14-2013, § 2, 3-11-13; Ord. No. 21-2017, § 2(Exh. A), 12-18-17)