30682 Military Rd S, Auburn, WA 98001

Neighborhood Business Zone

The purpose of the neighborhood business zone (NB) is to provide convenient daily retail and personal services for a limited service area and to minimize impacts of commercial activities on nearby properties and in urban areas on properties with the land use designation of commercial outside of center, to provide for limited residential development. These purposes are accomplished by: Limiting nonresidential uses to those retail or personal services which can serve the everyday needs of a surrounding urban or rural residential area; Allowing for mixed use (housing and retail/service) developments and for townhouse developments as a sole use on properties in the urban area with the land use designation of commercial outside of center; and Excluding industrial and community/regional business-scaled uses.; Use of this zone is appropriate in urban neighborhood business centers, rural towns, or rural neighborhood centers designated by the comprehensive plan, on sites which are served at the time of development by adequate public sewers when located in urban areas or adequate on-site sewage disposal when located in rural areas, water supply, roads and other needed public facilities and services.