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<br /> <br />Places to Shop and Interact <br /> <br />There are five categories of places to shop including neighborhood business, community business, <br />highway business, limited business, and mixed-use described below. <br /> <br />Obiectives for places to shop and interact <br /> <br />Shopping areas should be more than just places to shop. They should be places to interact with <br />neighbors, places for leisure and places for civic events. The following are the City's objectives for <br />places to shop and interact: <br /> <br />1. To encourage land use relationships and patterns which facilitate walking and biking as well as <br />driving. <br />2. To create viable shopping environments that are able to satisfy the convenience shopping and <br />service needs of residents. <br />3. To create shopping environments which are attractive in scale, amenities and function to <br />shoppers. <br />4. To provide mixes of uses which provide opportunities for convenient shared parking. <br />5. To create compact centers and multiple use facilities that are complementary and of service to <br />surrounding neighborhoods. <br /> <br />It is the City's intent to maintain compact, vital retail centers. Virtually all new retail development is <br />intended to occur in the Old Highway 8 corridor, primarily in the city center, at County Road E2 and 5th <br />Avenue and at Highway 96, locations which have a high level of visibility and/or good accessibility. It <br />might actually be a misnomer to think of these areas as retail locations given changes in retailing patterns. <br />Even in these locations, retail or commercial development will be relatively small components of larger <br />mixed-use developments. <br /> <br />Neighborhood Business. Neighborhood business areas are intended to serve the convenience shopping <br />and service needs of neighborhoods. Uses intended to be accommodated include retail and personal <br />service establishments such as video stores. business offices, drug stores, barber and beauty shops, <br />laundromats, dry cleaning, and similar establishments. Neighborhood business areas and buildings within <br />them are intended to be relatively small in size. These areas should consist of not more than eight-acres <br />and are not intended to expand beyond the area already zoned for neighborhood business. <br /> <br />Communitv Business. Community business areas are intended to serve the retail and service needs of the <br />entire community thus warranting a full-range of uses including retail sales, gas and convenience stores, <br />business and professional offices, personal and business services, and similar uses. It is also intended to <br />serve the occasional traffic passing through the community on the freeways. Some areas within the <br />community business designation may include highway oriented businesses which are intended to <br />accommodate uses which depend on larger volumes of traffic and highway visibility. Uses intended to be <br />accommodated in these locations include automobile service facilities, drive-up establishments including <br />banks and restaurants, commercial recreation facilities, lodging facilities and similar land uses. New <br />Brighton is virtually fully developed and therefore has very limited opportunities to provide for new <br />community business development. Future opportunities will be limited to various infilI developments and <br />redevelopment at existing community business nodes. While it may seem that these areas are primarily <br />auto oriented locations, they still serve the surrounding neighborhoods and must pay attention to the <br />pedestrian circulation pattems to and from the area as well as within the shopping areas. <br /> <br />August 4,1999 <br />New Brighton Comprehensive Plan <br /> <br />Page 5.11 <br />