700 Menius Rd, China Grove, NC 28023

Neighborhood Business District

This district is primarily designed to provide rural business opportunities typically in the form of small retail, service, office, and light manufacturing uses to serve the community's existing and future needs for goods, services, and employment opportunities. Standards within the district are intended to promote context sensitive development appropriately scaled and organized in a manner that would not be detrimental to the surrounding area. Development within this district would contain impacts inherently more intensive than those associated with uses permitted with special requirements in the RA district but significantly less than those in CBI zoned areas. The NB district is generally appropriate in areas identified by an adopted land use plan for rural businesses located on identified minor and major thoroughfares and within community nodes. However, additional consideration may be necessary as some thoroughfare segments would not be conducive to NB designation due to surrounding land use and/or potential negative impacts such as traffic, noise, and visual impacts. Generally, the NB district shall be two acres or larger. However a lot of record, smaller than two acres may be considered for rezoning to NB if the owner of the lot does not own adjacent property which may be included in the rezoning request.