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A. Function. To support or encourage a small shopping area that provides primarily convenience retail sales and services to the adjoining residential neighborhood, where the following characteristics can be achieved: 1. A variety of small neighborhood-serving businesses; 2. Continuous storefronts built to the front lot line; 3. An atmosphere attractive to pedestrians; 4. Shoppers walk from store to store. B. Locational criteria. A Neighborhood Commercial 1 zone designation is most appropriate on land that is generally characterized by the following conditions: 1. Outside of regional, urban, and neighborhood centers or within portions of urban or neighborhood centers that are peripheral to the primary business district and adjacent to low-density residential areas; 2. Located on streets with limited capacity, such as collector arterials; 3. No physical edges to buffer the residential areas; 4. Small parcel sizes; 5. Limited transit service. (Ord. 127375 , § 17, 2025; Ord. 122311 , § 8, 2006; Ord. 117430 , § 14, 1994; Ord. 112777 § 2(part), 1986.)