101 E Elizabethtown Rd, Lumberton, NC 28358

Community Business Districts

The B-2 (community business) districts are designed to accommodate commercial development on a scale that is less intensive than that permitted in a B-1 district. A lesser intensity of development is achieved through setback, height, and minimum lot size requirements that are more restrictive than those applicable to the B-1 zone. The types of uses permissible in these zones are generally similar to the types permissible in a B-1 zone, except that additional automobile-oriented businesses (e.g., drive-in banks and restaurants), not allowed in the B-1 zone, are permissible in these zones. The B-2 and B-2H thus may provide a transition in some areas between a B-1 zone and a residential zone or may provide for a smaller scale shopping center that primarily serves one neighborhood or area of the city (as opposed to a regional shopping center). The dimensional restrictions in the zone are also designed in appropriate areas to encourage the renovation for commercial purposes of buildings that formerly were single-family residences. The only difference between B-2 and B-2H zones is the difference in height limitations spelled out in section 35-186. Therefore, all other references in this chapter to the B-2 district shall be deemed to include the B-2H district.