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Co +ire ensive + an text a en ent URN- Neighborhood Commercial The purpose of the Neighborhood Commercial designation is to provide appropriately located areas for low intensity retail stores, offices, and personal service establishments patronized by residents of the immediate area. The uses allowed in this district are to provide goods and services on a limited community market scale and located in areas which are well served by collector or arterial street facilities at the edge of residential districts. Type of Development: The following uses are appropriate in the Neighborhood Commercial category: • Primarily commercial, office and institutional. • High density residential where appropriate and local controls allow for. Development Policies: The following policies apply to the Neighborhood Commercial category: • Maintain the visual environment of the City, protect the general welfare, and ensure that the City's property values, buildings, designs, appearance, character, and economic well-being are preserved and respected through minimum design and appearance standards; • Reinforce and support a healthy development pattern in which new buildings and building modifications maintain the City's unique character and heritage through complementary and appropriate use of building materials, massing and architectural details; • Encourage a diversity of uses and activities that promote pedestrian activity; • Promote the use of quality construction; • Enhance the visual and aesthetic appeal of the corridor; • Group compatible business uses that will draw trade that is naturally compatible and promotes the business prosperity and public convenience; • Protect the private investors who commit to redevelopment; • Encourage creativity, imagination, innovation, and variety in architectural design and building composition through design principles that promote harmony in the physical relationships between residential and commercial structures and compatible land uses.