706-B

The purposes of the Corridor 80 (C80) district are: 1. To protect the integrity of and to provide for a superior environment along the U.S. Highway 80 entranceway into the City of Jackson. This is one of the City of Jackson’s “front doors” and it is important to protect the appearance of this corridor. 2. To allow diverse uses in close proximity in the district, including residential, retail, office, entertainment, public/ quasi-public uses, and open space. 3. To encourage a mix of uses in which non-residential development generates revenues and creates jobs, shopping, and entertainment opportunities for residents, while residential development (especially multi-family residential) generates 24- hour vitality in support of the commercial uses. 4. To provide standards for site design, architecture, landscaping and circulation that segregate vehicular and pedestrian traffic, encourage walking and bicycling for recreation and daily errands, and buffer adjacent and internal residential uses from non-residential use impacts through a planned development process. 5. To reduce the number of curb cuts within the Corridor 80 district through the required interconnection of parking lots and by creating “back streets” running parallel to the main thoroughfares. This District implements the following goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan: 1. Quality physical growth and development: “Promote compact and contiguous development.” 2. Strong neighborhoods: “Establish a…framework of neighborhoods as villages with viable residential, institutional and commercial components that support the daily lives of residents.” 3. Reliable, cost-effective…infrastructure: “…a pedestrian environment, landscaped trees, sidewalks, off-street parking and transit.” 4. Quality physical growth and development: “Diversify downtown Jackson using a mixed-use neighborhood approach…” 5. Quality physical growth and development: “…modify land use and development implementation tools…to ensure consistency with the Comprehensive Plan.”