5470 Desoto Rd, Sarasota, FL 34235

Commercial General District

The CG District provides for general commercial facilities of varying scales and may include either an individual business located on its own parcel, or multiple businesses located together on a parcel such as a shopping center. Businesses in this district should be sited convenient to automotive traffic. Pedestrian traffic will also be found in this district, and therefore pedestrian connections to existing neighborhoods are important. In large-scale projects, access, internal vehicular and pedestrian circulation and transit access are also important. This district should be designed to serve a community-wide market area and offer a wide range of goods and services. It is further intended that sufficient buffering and design techniques be used to reduce or prevent impacts on adjacent or nearby residential uses. This district allows residential use, including upper story residential dwelling units, in order to promote live-work and mixed use opportunities. When rezoning to the CG District, it shall be in accord with an approved Binding Development Concept Plan; The CG District is generally used to implement the Comprehensive Plan within those areas of the County shown as Regional, Community, Village I and Village II Commercial Center, or Commercial Corridor on the Future Land Use Map.