(a) General description. The Community Business I District is established to provide areas for medium-density business and service uses serving several residential neighborhoods. This community business center may serve as a workplace for many residents in the surrounding neighborhoods and should be sensitive to a significant pedestrian population, but also provide for adequate and safe vehicular access. The Community Business I District is designed to be located primarily along streets which serve multiple residential neighborhoods.
(b) Allowable land uses. All permitted uses, special uses, conditional uses and uses expressly prohibited are identified in subsection 7-8-1(d), Table of Permitted Uses. Standards for special uses and conditional uses can be found in article XVI of this chapter.
(c) Reserved.
(d) Reserved.
(e) Reserved.
(f) Development standards.
(1) Density standards. The maximum residential density per acre within the Community Business I District shall be 20 dwelling units; or 40 dwelling units if 20 percent of the dwelling units are designated affordable. Projects including affordable units must provide a declaration of deed restrictions ensuring that rents or sale prices will remain affordable for the first ten years after completion, increasing by no more than three percent per year, or the annual increase in the Consumer Price index, whichever is lower. Also, such units must be reserved for qualified households in a form satisfactory to the city attorney.
(2) Structure size standards. New structures in the Community Business I District shall have a building footprint of not more than 6,000 square feet. The gross floor area of new structures shall not exceed 12,000 square feet. Existing structures shall not be expanded to exceed a footprint or gross floor area of 12,000 square feet.
(3) Lot size standards. None.
(4) Lot width standards. None.
(5) Setback standards. The following minimum setbacks shall be required for uses in the Community Business I District.
Front: 15 feet, except that the minimum setback may be reduced to zero feet in pedestrian-oriented areas where road widening is not anticipated provided that all parking is located to the side or rear and not closer to the street than the façade of the principal structure, and where pedestrian-oriented design features are incorporated in building and site design.
Side: None required.
Rear: None required.
Corner lot, street side: 15 feet.
The landscape and buffering standards (section 7-11-3) may require additional setback; if so, the most restrictive requirement shall apply.
The minimum spacing between structures shall, in addition, be as per the Asheville Fire Prevention Code.
(6) Impervious surface standards. The maximum impervious surface coverage in the Community Business I District shall be 80 percent.
(7) Height standards. The maximum height of structures in the Community Business I District shall be 40 feet.
(8) Landscaping/buffering standards. Landscaping and/or buffering shall be provided as required by section 7-11-3
of this chapter.
(9) Parking/loading standards. Parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required by section 7-11-2 of this chapter. No parking shall be permitted in any required setback. Parking shall be provided at the side or rear and not closer to the street than the edge of the structure. Uses in the Community Business I District are permitted a 25 percent reduction in the minimum number of parking spaces required by section 7-11-2 of this chapter.
(10) Sidewalk standards. Sidewalks shall be provided as required by and pursuant to the requirements for sidewalks as set forth in subsection 7-11-8 of this chapter.
(11) Access standards. None.
(12) Open space standards. Open space shall be provided as required by section 7-11-4 of this chapter.
(13) Design and operation standards. None.
(14) Emergency wireless communications. Communication requirements shall be provided as required by section 7-11-9 of this chapter.
(15) Drive-through facilities. Uses with drive-through facilities are prohibited in the district.
(Ord. No. 2369, § 1, 5-27-97; Ord. No. 2539, § 1, 1-26-99; Ord. No. 2663, § 1(g), 2-8-00; Ord. No. 2664, § 1(l), 2-8- 00; Ord. No. 2904, § 1(l), 3-12-02; Ord. No. 3010, § 1b, 3-25-03; Ord. No. 3156, § 1, 8-24-04; Ord. No. 3209, § 1b, 1- 25-05; Ord. No. 3272, § 1(b), 7-26-05; Ord. No. 3337, § 1(b), (c), 2-28-06; Ord. No. 3390, § 1(b), 9-12-06; Ord. No. 3483, § 1(b), 6-2-07; Ord. No. 3583, § 1(a), 2-12-08; Ord. No. 3643, § 1a, 7-22-08; Ord. No. 3685, § 1b, 1-13-09; Ord. No. 3700, §§ 1d, e, 2-10-09; Ord. No. 3743, § 1a, 6-9-09; Ord. No. 3856, § 1b, 5-25-10; Ord. No. 3908, § 1b, 10-26- 10; Ord. No. 3959, §§ 1f, n, p, 4-12-11; Ord. No. 4374, § 1d, 12-9-14; Ord. No. 4361, § 1m, 3-23-21; Ord. No. 4961, § 1a, 7-26-22)