Andover Unified Development Manual

Part 2 — Unified Development Ordinance Zoning Regulations

City of Andover Unified Development Manual

Andover Zoning Districts — BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL —

For business and professional offices, along with compatible institutional and public land uses, which generate limited evening activities, and are typically located adjacent to arterial streets. This district may serve as a buffer between residential districts and adjacent business or industrial districts.

B-1

Office Business

For retail sales of convenience goods and services, which are near residential neighborhoods, of limited size, and along arterial streets. For a vibrant, compact, walkable , mixed use urban environment along the US-54/400 corridor. Includes:

B-2

Neighborhood Business

• A variety of high quality medium density housing options and retail/service businesses, all in close proximity to each other, with uses mixed both vertically and horizontally, and buildings close to streets; • A pedestrian level experience enhanced with wide sidewalks, which may include landscaping, patios, and interesting building entry features; • Streets, squares, and public ways designed to create usable public spaces (common public open spaces may be aggregated to substitute for required landscaped street yards); • Side streets designed for slow speeds, with pedestrian-friendly intersections and crosswalks; • Frontage and backage roads designed to carry higher traffic volumes; Private parking which may be shared among multiple properties; and on-street parking which may be used to meet requirements for parking, where adequate spaces and right-of-way are available.

MXN Neighborhood Transition/ Mixed Use

B-3 Retail and Service Business

For certain independent retail sales and service businesses .

Central Business /Mixed Use

For retail sales and service businesses. May include 1- to 3-story buildings with housing and offices on upper floors & ground floor retail and service businesses. For a diverse and intense mixed use urban environment, with 3- to 6-story buildings constructed close together and adjacent to sidewalks to enhance walkability. Typically, upper floors have multiple-family housing or office space, while ground floors have retail and service businesses interspersed with public spaces. For storefront industry and businesses whose operations are compatible in size and intensity, which do not require large amounts of land, or generate large amounts of traffic. For light industrial businesses which are consistent with the capacity and availability of public and private utility services, and which do not require large amounts of land, generate large amounts of traffic, or create environmental problems in the way of odor, smoke, dust, glare, vibration or sound.

B-4

Highway Corridor Mixed Use Business

B-5

Mixed Industrial/Commercial

MXI

I-1

Industrial

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