109 Thomasville Rd, Florence, MS 39073

General Commercial District

The purpose of this district is to promote the development of well-planned shopping centers and independent commercial uses within carefully selected areas of the Board of Supervisors and Rankin County. The commercial activities permitted in this district include uses of a higher intensity than those first allowed in Restricted Business/Professional district P-1. Although shopping center uses permitted in this zone require access to an arterial street, such uses are not highway oriented like those first allowed in the Major Thoroughfares Commercial District C-3. Uses first permitted in C-3 Major Thoroughfares Commercial districts shall not be permitted in the C-2 district. It is also the intent of this district that commercial uses permitted in C-2 districts be limited to those in which services performed and merchandise offered for sale be conducted or displayed entirely within enclosed structures as defined by this Ordinance. It is the intent of this Ordinance that shopping centers and independent commercial uses be developed so that pedestrian and vehicular circulation is coordinated with the circulation patterns of adjacent properties in the vicinity that are also affected. In order to facilitate access between adjoining properties and to reduce the number of curb cuts onto arterial streets, the installation of a service drive shall be considered in connection with any independent commercial use i.e., a commercial use that is not a part of a shopping center proposed in this district.