5673 Orebank Rd, Kingsport, TN 37664

Convenience Neighborhood Business District

These districts are intended to provide locations for retail and personal service operations serving a limited market area and engaged in the retail sale of goods and/or services from the site of frequently and recurring needs for personal consumption or household use. The permitted establishments are those which provide for regular local shopping and which, therefore, are visited frequently by customers in the near vicinity. Community facilities and utilities necessary to serve these districts or uses necessary for the general community welfare are also permitted. These districts may occur along and at the intersection of arterial and community collector streets, characteristically are small, and are widely distributed throughout the community for convenient accessibility. It is expressly intended that these districts be limited in gross land area and building bulk so as to maintain compatibility with the surrounding residential environment. The bulk regulations are established to provide for maximum compatibility between the commercial activity in these districts and adjacent residential activity. The establishment of a new district of this nature must be preceded by the development of residential areas capable of supporting the proposed activities, be in a historically recognized community center, or as a transitional zone between residential areas and existing higher commercial zones. New B-1 districts should not be located within established residential subdivisions unless it is part of an approved Planned Unit Development wherein mixed uses are encouraged.