40 Gerber Rd, Asheville, NC 28803

Urban Village District

The Urban Village District is established to create mixed use development that is economically vital, pedestrian-oriented and contributes to the place-making character of the built environment. The Urban Village District offers the unique opportunity to provide quality and long lasting retail, office and residential uses in an organized layout that encourages the full range of access by patrons and users, and offers innovative high quality design of structures, public amenities and pedestrian facilities. The development and design standards set forth in this district intend to accomplish the following purposes: (1) Provide safe and convenient access to shopping and other essential services to: Pedestrians, Bicyclists, Transit riders, and Persons with disabilities.; (2) Effective traffic flow through: Access management, and Improved internal and external connectivity.; (3) Create a built environment that serves to: Enhance gateway corridors, Preserve historic heritage, Promote economic development and an improved tax base for the city, and Celebrate Asheville's distinction from other cities.; (4) Promote sustainable use of limited land and investment resources by: Encouraging higher building densities, Allowing efficient shared parking areas, making cost effective use of existing infra-structure, Showcasing innovative high quality development, Providing adaptive re-use of under-performing retail properties, Ensuring multi-modal transportation access, Insuring internal and external connectedness, Developing a durable framework of infrastructure and built structures that can accommodate future renovations, Upgrades and rehabilitation, and Reestablishing the public realm, civic pride, and sense of community ownership in new developments.