(A) The intent of the C-3 General Business District is to provide for intensive commercial development. C-3 districts typically exhibit one or more of the following characteristics.
(1) Permitted businesses offer a broad range of goods and services, including both comparison and convenience goods and services.
(2) The market for businesses in the C-3 district may include the general city population, residents in surrounding communities, and the people in transit.
(3) Permitted businesses are frequently auto-oriented, rather than pedestrian-oriented.
(4) Because of the negative impacts commonly generated by C-3 uses, these districts are not generally appropriate adjacent to residential uses unless extensive buffering is provided.
(B) Because of the variety of business types permitted in the C-3 district, special attention must be focused on site layout, building design, vehicular and pedestrian circulation, spacing of uses, and coordination of site features between adjoining sites. Accordingly, General Business District developments should be as follows.
(1) Compatible in design with adjacent commercial development.
(2) Designed in coordination with development an adjoining commercial sites.
(3) Buffered from or located away from residential areas.
(4) Directly served by a major thoroughfare.
(Ord. 92-005, passed 2-17-92)