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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 14-328 Neighborhood commercial establishments.">
  <section prefix="§" num="14-328" heading="Neighborhood commercial establishments.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Minimum lot area requirements.">Because neighborhood commercial establishment uses apply only to certain already-existing buildings, those uses are not subject to the minimum lot area required for non-residential uses in Residential or Office-Residential Zoning Districts.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Non-residential uses allowed.">A neighborhood commercial establishment may contain any one or more of the following non-residential uses in any part or all of the building:<para num="(1)">Art galleries – no live entertainment or dancing.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Arts studios.</para>
      <para num="(3)">Day care centers: adult or child.</para>
      <para num="(4)">Offices.</para>
      <para num="(5)">Personal services establishments.</para>
      <para num="(6)">Restaurants – no live entertainment or dancing.</para>
      <para num="(7)">Retail goods establishments – no alcoholic beverage sales.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Pedestrian orientation.">The development and the proposed use must be pedestrian-oriented and not oriented to the automobile.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Principal entrance.">The principal entrance must be a direct entry from the primary adjoining street.</para>
    <para num="(e)" />
    <para num="(f)" heading="Drive-through facilities prohibited.">Drive-through facilities are prohibited.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Uses limited to building interior.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">All business, servicing, processing, display, and storage uses must be located within the building, unless the Zoning Board expressly authorizes, as a conditional use, one or more of these uses to be located, in part or in whole, outside the building.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Expansion of building.">The Zoning Board may authorize, as a conditional use, the expansion of a neighborhood commercial establishment into a newly constructed addition to the principal building, on the same original property.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Signs.">Signs must comply with Title 17 {“Signs”} of this Code.</para>
    <para num="(i)" heading="Tobacco products sales prohibited.">The sale of a tobacco product, as defined by State Health-General Article, § 13-1001(u) {“Definitions: Tobacco product”}, is prohibited in neighborhood commercial establishments.</para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Outdoor dining.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">Where the right-of-way is 10 feet or greater, outdoor dining may:<para num="(i)">be on the street side of the property;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">be on the interior of the property; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">be in the rear yard of the property.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Deck dining - prohibition.">No deck used for outdoor dining shall be constructed in the 10 foot right-of-way described under this section.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-171</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-216</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-360</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-370</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-181</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
