91 N Main St, Lebanon, OR 97355

Highway Commercial Zone

Central Business and Highway Commercial Zones. Commercial districts are centers of business and civic life. This chapter describes the three commercial districts that are designed to accommodate the range of commercial land uses in the community. The central business commercial zone Z-CCM is focused on downtown area, or the commercial and civic the core of the community generally that area south of Rose Street, north of Oak Street, primarily east of or adjacent to 4th Street, and primarily west of or adjacent to Park Street. The highway commercial zone Z-HCM regulations apply to those commercial areas outside of the central business area, generally located along or in close proximity to arterial streets. These commercial zones are intended to: To preserve and enhance areas within the commercial core of the community for concentrated retail sales and businesses that will serve the pedestrian shopper; Promote efficient use of land and urban services; Create a mixture of land uses that encourages employment and housing options in close proximity to one another; Provide formal and informal community gathering places and opportunities for social activities; Provide connections and appropriate transitions between residential areas and commercial areas; Encourage and nurture pedestrian-oriented shopping and activity in the downtown central business commercial zone, and accommodate automobile dependent uses, as well as pedestrian-oriented uses, with appropriate standards in the highway commercial zone; Provide for visitor accommodations and tourist amenities; Encourage full utilization of downtown infrastructure including parking and other amenities.