City-County Planning Department

General Districts
4D.2 Shopping Center District (SC)
4D.2.1 Purpose

The Shopping Center District (SC) is established to provide for orderly development of commercial services in a unified grouping. The district is intended to encourage innovative development that is integrated with adjacent uses through Development Plan zoning approval. It is not the intent of this district to encourage strip commercial areas but rather a concentration of commercial activities with an overall design scheme. The district is intended to provide a wide range of retail and service activities that serve many neighborhoods. In its effort to support orderly development, the district is also established to minimize traffic impact; therefore, its use is intended for large lot developments and locations along thoroughfares and at major intersections that are capable of handling the proposed traffic.

4D.2.2 Permitted Uses
  1. Accessory buildings
  2. Accessory uses
  3. Amateur Wireless Facility
  4. Artists galleries
  5. Artists studios
  6. Banks and financial institutions with or with out drive up windows
  7. Bed and breakfast inns
  8. Car washes, automatic and self-service
  9. Cemeteries, mausoleums, columbariums, and memorial gardens
  10. Clubs, lodges and recreational facilities, for use by non-profit organizations
  11. Colleges and universities
  12. Convalescent centers
  13. Convenience stores with or without gasoline sales
  14. Day care facilities
  15. Detached single family dwellings, subject to Section 4D.2.7
  16. Diet houses
  17. Duplex and triplex dwellings, subject to Section 4D.2.7
  18. Exhibition buildings
  19. Funeral homes
  20. Garden centers
  21. Golf courses and related activities; driving ranges when associated with the golf course
  22. Government facilities, not to include correctional facilities and jails
  23. Health clubs and athletic facilities
  24. Hospitals
  25. Hotels and motels
  26. Medical clinics
  27. Movie theaters, not to include drive-in theaters
  28. Museums operated by non-profit groups
  29. Night clubs
  30. Offices
  31. Parking as an independent use
  32. Personal service establishments
  33. Photographic studios and photographic processing for retail
  34. Places of worship
  35. Public parks and playgrounds
  36. Public utility facilities, without outdoor storage
  37. Radio and television broadcasting studios
  38. Recreation facilities, commercial, indoor
  39. Repair shops without outdoor storage or operations (separate listing for vehicle repair)
  40. Restaurants, and catering services with and without drive-up windows provided they are part of a shopping center, and driveways are internal to the center
  41. Retail stores and shops
  42. Satellite Dish Antennae
  43. Schools - technical, trade, vocational, or business
  44. Service stations
  45. Shopping centers
  46. Showroom offices, not including vehicle sales
  47. Temporary outdoor events subject to Section 14
  48. Theaters
  49. Vehicle repair shops without outdoor storage or operations
  50. Veterinary clinics
  51. Wireless Communication Facilities, concealed, concealed attached, co-located or combining on an existing, non-concealed attached, mitigating an existing
4D.2.3 Minor Special Uses Subject to Approval by the Board of Adjustment
  1. Golf driving range as an independent use
  2. Multifamily dwellings, subject to the requirements of 4D.2.7
  3. Passenger transportation terminals
  4. Private schools
  5. Publishing and printing establishments (SIC Group 27)
  6. Recreation facilities, commercial, outdoor
  7. Vehicle sales, leases and rentals
  8. Wireless Communication Facilities, non-concealed
4D.2.4 Major Special Uses Subject to Approval by the Governing Body
1. Helistops
2. Public schools
4D.2.5 Dimensional Requirements
1. Gross tract size - for zoning purposes a minimum of 4 contiguous acres are required for initial approval; however, additions to an approved SC zone may be made in increments less than 4 acres.
2. Minimum lot width - none specified
3. Setbacks - all buildings shall be setback at least 50 feet from the ultimate right-of-way of all adjacent streets and all residential zoning boundaries. All buffer standards found elsewhere in this ordinance shall apply.
4. Commercial outparcels shall not comprise more than 50% of the floor area of the tract
4D.2.6 Height Requirements

Height shall not exceed 50 feet for developments of less than 150,000 square feet of gross floor area. Developments of 150,000 square feet or greater are allowed building heights up to 90 feet. Developments of 250,000 square feet or greater are allowed building heights up to 145 feet.

Any building over 50 feet must have its proposed height shown on the development plan. Prior to approving heights over 50 feet, consideration shall be given to the following:

1. That the scale of the building will contribute to the overall image of the adjacent area.
2. That the proposed development plan adequately protects surrounding properties from any adverse affects resulting from the proposed height of the building.
3. That the proposed development plan provides for safe traffic and pedestrian movements.
4D.2.7 Standards for Residential Development
1. The maximum density shall be 16 units per acre.
2. Residential development shall conform to RM District standards. When a conflict occurs with this section the stricter rules shall apply.
3. Mixed residential and commercial projects - see 4D.1.9
4D.2.8 Additional Requirements

Projects which are exclusively residential shall meet the following requirements:

1. A Development Plan in conformance with the requirements of Section 15 shall accompany all petitions for the SC zone. Approval of any SC zoning shall be contingent upon review and approval of the Development Plan by the Governing Body.
2. Significant components of a Development Plan include: topography, building envelope, proposed circulation system, proposed lot layout, proposed reservations for open space and utilities, a schematic landscape plan, design principles to govern development, and any conditions that may be proposed by the applicant.
3. Site plans and Subdivisions shall be reviewed for conformance with the approved Development Plan. Should alterations or changes represent a substantial departure from the approved plan, an amendment to the plan is required. The same procedures required for the original approval shall be required for amendments.
4. All development shall access a public street or a private street that meets ordinance requirements.
5. Drive-up windows may be allowed if they are approved as part of a site plan. Restaurants and shops shall only have drive-up windows when the access to the establishment and drive-up window are internal to the shopping center. Additional requirements of Section 8 apply.
6. All development shall comply with buffer and screening standards found in Section 10 of this ordinance
7. Supplementary requirements of Section 7 may apply depending on the type of development.
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