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Neighborhood Center Mixed-Use Zone

The Neighborhood Center mixed-use (NCMU) zone provides for a compatible mix of neighborhood-scaled commercial and employment uses and medium density multifamily housing. These purposes are accomplished by:

1. Promoting neighborhood identity; 2. Providing a range of commercial, retail, and service opportunities; 3. Use of this zone is appropriate for areas designated community mixed-use in the comprehensive plan.

General Mixed-Use Zones Purpose

The general purposes of the mixed-use zones are as follows:

1. Fostering a development pattern offering direct, convenient pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular access between residences and businesses, in order to facilitate pedestrian and bicycle travel and reduce the number and length of automobile trips; 2. Encouraging new development that supports the safe and efficient movement of goods and people; 3. Providing for a compatible mix of multifamily housing and neighborhood commercial businesses and services, with an emphasis on promoting multistory structures with commercial uses on the ground floor and multifamily housing on upper floors; 4. Promoting a compact growth pattern to efficiently use the developable land, and to enable cost-effective extensions of utilities, services, and streets; frequent transit service; and to help sustain neighborhood businesses; 5. Fostering the development of mixed-use areas that are arranged, scaled, and designed to be compatible with surrounding land uses and which provide transitions between significantly different land use; and 6. Ensuring that buildings and other development components are arranged, designed, and oriented to facilitate pedestrian access.

Allowed Uses

RESIDENTIAL, GENERAL:
Dwelling, townhouse
Dwelling, multifamily
Dwelling, live-work

GROUP RESIDENCES:
Boarding houses, lodging houses
Adult family home
Community residential facility
Senior citizen assisted housing
Transitional housing
Permanent supportive housing
Indoor emergency shelter
Indoor emergency housing

RESIDENTIAL ACCESSORY USES:
Home occupations

TEMPORARY LODGING:
Bed and breakfast

RETAIL:
Automobile, EV charging station
Farmers' markets
Nurseries and greenhouses
Restaurants
Bars and brewpubs
Coffee house, espresso bar
Retail, small scale (less than 2,000 SF floor area)
Retail, medium scale (between 2,000 and 20,000 SF floor area)
Retail, large scale (between 20,001 and 60,000 SF floor area)
Regional retail commercial projects ¹
Cannabis retailer

PERSONAL AND GENERAL SERVICE:
Day care I facilities
Day care II facilities
Hotels and motels
Offices, medical
Cannabis cooperative
Personal service establishments
Laundromats and dry cleaners
Places of assembly ²
Radio station (commercial)
Veterinary clinic

BUSINESS SERVICE:
Conference center
Offices, business or professional, small scale (less than 2,000 SF floor area)
Offices, business or professional, medium scale (between 2,000 and 20,000 SF floor area)
Offices, business or professional, large scale (between 20,001 and 60,000 SF floor area)

INDUSTRIAL:
Light manufacturing ³
Light industry ³

PARK, OPEN SPACE AND RECREATIONAL:
Recreation, outdoor (commercial)
Recreation, indoor (commercial)
Recreation, small-scale indoor studios (commercial)
Parks and playgrounds (public or private)

CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENT:
Art, performing arts, and recording studios
Museums
Theaters

GOVERNMENTAL:
Public agency or utility office

RESOURCE:
Gardening or fruit raising (accessory use or noncommercial)
Small wind energy systems

Note 1: Regional retail is administered as an overlay zone pursuant to chapters 15.390 and 15.390A ECC, and only permitted within the designated boundaries identified in figure 15.390.040(A), the south interchange area, and figure 15.390.040(B), the west interchange area. Permitted uses and use restrictions within a regional retail commercial project are described in ECC 15.390.030. Design criteria for regional retail is governed by chapter 15.390A ECC.

Note 2: Subject to Conditional Use review procedures.

Note 3: Use must be enclosed entirely within a building.

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