Marysville, WA 98270

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. These purposes are accomplished by: (i) Limiting nonresidential uses to those retail or personal services which can serve the everyday needs of a surrounding residential area; (ii) Allowing for a mix of housing and retail/service uses; and (iii) Excluding industrial and community/regional business-scaled uses. (b) Use of this zone is appropriate in neighborhood centers designated by the comprehensive plan which are served at the time of development by adequate public sewers, water supply, roads and other needed public facilities and services. (2) Community Business and Community Business - Whiskey Ridge Zones. (a) The purpose of the community business (CB) and community business - Whiskey Ridge (CB-WR) zones is to provide convenience and comparison retail and personal services for local service areas which exceed the daily convenience needs of adjacent neighborhoods but which cannot be served conveniently by larger activity centers, and to provide retail and personal services in locations within activity centers that are not appropriate for extensive outdoor storage or auto-related and industrial uses. These purposes are accomplished by: (i) Providing for limited small-scale offices as well as a wider range of the retail, professional, governmental and personal services than are found in neighborhood business areas; (ii) Allowing for a mix of housing and retail/service uses; provided, that housing is not allowed in the community business - Whiskey Ridge zone; and (iii) Excluding commercial uses with extensive outdoor storage or fabrication and industrial uses. (b) Use of this zone is appropriate in community business areas that are designated by the comprehensive plan and are served at the time of development by adequate public sewers, water supply, roads and other needed public facilities and services. (3) General Commercial Zone. (a) The purpose of the general commercial zone (GC) is to provide for the broadest mix of commercial, wholesale, service and recreation/cultural uses with compatible storage and fabrication uses, serving regional market areas and offering significant employment. These purposes are accomplished by: (i) Encouraging compact development that is supportive of transit and pedestrian travel, through higher nonresidential building heights and floor area ratios than those found in CB zoned areas;