1113.01 PURPOSE.

   The purpose of this district is to provide for the development of pedestrian-oriented uses that serve the small-scale retail, service, office, and entertainment needs of one or more fully developed residential neighborhoods, a residential area of approximately 5,000 to 15,000 persons. Stores, offices and other businesses in this district should generally be useful to the majority of the neighborhood residents within walking distance, as well as the specially needs of the community as a whole. Large-scale grocery and retail are not appropriate uses. Small-scale retail, service, and restaurant establishments should constitute the primary uses in this district. The district is intended to accommodate a physical pattern of development often found along village main streets and in neighborhood commercial areas of older cities.
   This district also serves as a mixed-use transitional area between high intensity central business district uses and residential uses. Light production, manufacturing, and assembly uses are permitted at appropriate transitional areas as conditional uses. Civic and neighborhood-oriented uses, as well as some residential, should be secondary functions of buildings in this district. All uses should be relatively nuisance-free to surrounding residents and not detract from the residential purpose and character of the surrounding neighborhood. Access to this district should be directly from an arterial or collector street.

(Ord. 07-131. Passed 5-15-07.)