(a) As used in this Zoning Code, “Shopping Center District” means a retail business area within or adjacent to a Residence District, characterized by a concentrated grouping of stores, shops and other uses herein permitted, ordinarily planned as a unit and built according to such plan. The designation Shopping Center District shall apply to all areas so designated on the Building Zone Map by appropriate symbol and to all Local Retail Business Districts more than 200 feet in lot depth and more than one (1) acre in area, and, where such local retail business zone is separated from a street line by an adjoining general retail business zone, the Shopping Center District includes such General Retail Business District zone.
(b) The Shopping Center District is hereby created in order to secure in such store groupings, so located, traffic safety through provisions for proper traffic routing and car parking, freedom from traffic congestion on public streets through provision for adequate off-street car parking and off-street loading and protection of residential character of neighborhoods through provision of adequate and suitably treated business area open spaces at boundaries adjacent to residential areas.
(Ord. No. 1144-51. Passed 6-25-51, eff. 6-28-51)