238 Atlanta Rd, Cumming, GA 30040

Highway Business District

The HB, Highway Business District is intended to provide suitable areas for those business and commercial uses which primarily serve the public traveling by automobile and which benefit from direct access to state highways. HB districts are generally designed so that the automobile has precedence over the pedestrian. Automobile sales and service, lodging, and ministorage facilities are representative uses. Open storage and open-air business uses are also permitted, subject to certain screening requirements.; HB districts apply to many properties fronting along certain portions of the state highways in the city. Generally, highway business districts are considered unsuitable for locations that abut single-family residential districts, because the uses permitted in such districts create off-site impacts (e.g., noise, lighting, traffic, odor, aesthetics) that are incompatible with detached, single-family neighborhoods.; Due to the adopted policy of encouraging more pedestrian-friendly development in a city that already has significant traffic and congestion burdens, rezoning to the HB district is strongly discouraged. Great scrutiny shall be given to any requests for rezoning to HB. Substantially compelling evidence of the need for additional highway business uses in the city and evidence of the lack of significant off-site impacts upon adjoining uses must accompany any request to rezone to the HB zoning district.