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Zoning File #2158 August 2, 1996 Page 3 Existing Uses & Zoning of Adjacent & Nearby Properties The residential neighborhood (Zoned LR-IC) abutting the subject property consists of single family homes on small lots generally gaining access from Olive Avenue, and those further north from Bay view Place. Directly to the east of the site, the wetland outlot (Zoned LR-IB) is not a buildable parcel, and the Lafayette Ridge neighborhood is some 600’ distant. The adjacent parcel directly to the southeast is zoned B-1. Retail Sales Business District and will be the site of a restauranl'convenience store/gas statioa'car wash complex. To the immediate south of County Road 15 is an existing convenience store operation, zoned B-1. Southwest of the intersection of County Roads 15 and 19 is Rick’s Super V'alu, which is zoned B-3, Shopping Center Business District. Directly across Shadywood Road from the site, in the northwest quadrant of Co. Rds. 15/19, is an Amoco service station as well as a professional office building and a single family residence, all zoned B-1. Just to the north of LjTic Avenue on the west side of 19 is a City playground. B-5 District Proposed Applicant proposes a rezoning to B-5 Limited Neighborhood Business District. The B-5 standards were created in 1976 and exist today as originally adopted. The purpose of the B-5 District is defined in the Zoning Code as follows: "The B-5 Limited Neighborhood Business District is intended to provide a district for businesses that supply commodities or perform a ser\ice primarily for residents in the surrounding neighborhood, which businesses are not high traffic generators and do not necessitate an inordinate amount of hardcover. The District may adjoin residential districts or other business districts which are subject to more restrictive controls. The District shall have immediate access to adequate highways and public sanitary sewer. Because of the location of the B-5 District as contemplated in the area known as Navarre in the City of Orono, the uses are limited in order to limit the hardcover in that area and to limit the future generation of traffic for that property in that use district since there is already a traffic problem in Navarre." Planning Commission should carefully consider whether all of the permitted uses in the B-5 zone as listed below are appropriate for the property in question. Remember that this list was created 20 years ago, and the nature of certain businesses on the list may have changed in i