2230 Cascade Rd, Atlanta, GA 30311

Cascade Heights Neighborhood Commercial District

The purpose and intent of this chapter, in establishing the NC Neighborhood Commercial District, is as follows: Protect existing neighborhood-oriented commercial areas from uses and building forms which are incompatible with the scale, character and needs of the adjacent neighborhoods; Preserve and restore existing, traditional and pedestrian scale buildings in established, historic neighborhood commercial districts; Create new commercial nodes, in areas so indicated in the comprehensive development plan, which are pedestrian-oriented and provide uses which primarily serve adjacent neighborhoods; Promote a balance of retail, service, office, dining and residential uses which serve the adjacent neighborhoods; Place reasonable controls on the development of larger scale highway-oriented retail, service, office and dining uses which are intended to serve larger areas of the city than a single neighborhood or a small group of neighborhoods; Alleviate development pressure on existing neighborhoods by placing reasonable controls on development and expansion of strip commercial areas within neighborhoods; Facilitate safe, attractive and convenient pedestrian circulation and minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles; Encourage pedestrian flow through the design of mixed-use buildings with sidewalk level retail uses, which open directly onto sidewalks adjacent to public streets; Improve pedestrian access within the district and to and from the surrounding neighborhoods; Establish building façade lines and sidewalk requirements, and reserve the space between buildings and the street for pedestrian functions;11.Encourage the rehabilitation or development of neighborhood commercial areas to include proportionately significant residential uses; Minimize the use of adjacent neighborhood streets for commercial area parking by establishing adequate parking requirements and encouraging shared parking arrangements; Promote a nodal form of neighborhood commercial development which is of such a size that all uses within the district are within a convenient walking distance of one another; and Include all parcels within a neighborhood commercial area as part of the Neighborhood Commercial District.; Each Neighborhood Commercial District ordinance shall by this reference incorporate the statement of intent found in this chapter as well as any particularized statement of intent appropriate to the individual district being created.