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4. BUSINESS ACTIVITY CENTER (BAC)

A. Function

i. Provide access to daily retail and service needs within walking distance of primary of-

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industrial concentration.

B. Preferred Uses

i. Land uses in this district should be small-scale mixed commercial uses including local

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Airport Overlay District) and specialty shops catering to local workers.

ii. Retail uses should generally provide the goods and services needed by local employ-

ment and residential communities in the vicinity of the BAC.

C. General Policies + Development Character

i. The Business Activity Center use should be compatible with and should illustrate a co-

ordinated design, transportation connection or other relationship with the surrounding

communities that exist or have been approved.

ii. Buildings should remain compatible with the surrounding neighborhood – generally

from two to six stories.

iii. Development should combine uses vertically, as well as horizontally (i.e. mixing uses

among buildings and within individual buildings), to achieve convenience, variety and

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grocery stores.

iv. New automobile-oriented retail uses such as building supply, nursery operations, auto

dealers, truck terminals, warehousing, service stations, furniture stores, drive-through res-

taurants and drive-through banks are not intended for Business Activity Centers.

v. Design elements should be integrated with wide sidewalks, street trees, benches, and

entrances to buildings at the edges of street rights-of-way. Bicycle facilities, on-street

parking, and usable public spaces should be provided.

vi. Land use or intensity/density transitions should be provided between non-residential

uses and existing low-density residential communities.

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plains and ponds to minimize environmental impacts and provide open space.

viii.Access to surrounding major thoroughfares should be limited, but local vehicular, tran-

sit, bicycle and pedestrian links to adjacent parcels should be provided.

ix. Vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian links should extend into the surrounding develop-

ment.

x. Development proposals in BACs will combine open and civic space in features such

as pedestrian promenades and plazas, public art, entrance features, linear parks and

trails, outdoor seating, lawns and greens or similar design features that invite pedestrian

activity.

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