1878 Main W St Locust, NC 28097-7700

2.1.5 Highway Commercial District (HC) Intent: The Highway Commercial District is established to provide primarily for auto-dependent uses in areas less amenable to easy pedestrian access and a comfortable pedestrian environment. It is expected that the Highway Commercial District will serve not only the Locust Community, but highway travelers as well. Because of the scale and access requirements of uses in this category, they often cannot be compatibly integrated within the City Center District. Development at district boundaries must provide a compatible transition to uses outside the district; frontages on major and minor arterials will require formal street tree planting. General Requirements 1. Along existing streets, new buildings shall respect the general spacing of structures, building mass and scale, and street frontage relationships of existing buildings. 2. New buildings which exceed the scale and volume of existing buildings may demonstrate compatibility by varying the massing of buildings to reduce perceived scale and volume. The definition of massing in Article 11 illustrates the application of design techniques to reduce the visual perception of size and integrate larger buildings with pre-existing smaller buildings. 3. On new streets, allowable building and lot types will establish the development pattern. 4. Where screening is required for activities involving any sale, use, repair, storage, or cleaning operation, the standards of Article 7 shall apply: 5. Any Highway Commercial District shall be bordered on at least one side by a major or minor thoroughfare. 6. The arrangement of multiple buildings on a single lot shall establish building facades generally parallel to the frontage property lines along existing streets and proposed interior streets. 7. Every building lot shall have frontage upon a public street or square except as follows: in specific locations where factors beyond developer control, such as a limited access highway, an existing development, or the location of an existing intersection, prohibit completing a street connection in the Highway Commercial District, a private drive may be substituted for the interior street which cannot be connected to the public network.