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L f. To ensure adequate buffering is provided on these sites for tbe adjacent residential uses. g. To require, where applicable, compliance with the City's gateway requirements. 6. B-1 Limited Business District a. To establish areas for the location and development of administrative office buildings and related office uses which are subject to more restrictive controls b. To provide a district which is related to and may reasonably adjoin high density or other residential districts c. To establish a business district in which there is limited contact with the public and no exterior display or selling of merchandise to the general public 7. B-2 General Business District a. To group compatible retail and service business uses which will tend to draw trade that is naturally interchangeable and so promote business prosperity b. To provide an adequate supply of businesses and professional service areas to meet the needs of the residents c. To promote a high quality of total commercial development and design that produces a positive visual mmge. d. To minimize the effects of traffic congestion, noise, odor, glare and similar safety problems 8. B-3 Service Business District a. To accommodate an adequate supply of businesses and services that serve the connnunity and motorists travelling through the community with a broad range of services and goods b. To provide locations for uses that may be incompatible with retail centers, thereby keeping the retail centers compact and convenient c. To keep services in close proximity to arterial streets or highways in areas that are appropriately designated on the Comprehensive Plan d. To encourage grouping of compatible and mutually supportive business uses and services e, To promote business prosperity f. To establish a high standard of development and design that produces a positive visual image and minimizes the effects of traffic congestion, noise, odor and glare g. To allow a transitional reuse of existing buildings until market conditions warrant redevelopment h. To enhance redevelopment potential by prohibiting uses that would impede redevelopment i. To ensure acceptable traffic operations on local streets j. To promote flexibility in land uses and site development standards to achieve the purposes of the district k. To implement that part oftbe Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan known as Lexington Avenue Business Area Plan. 9. B-4 Retail Center District a. To meet retail shopping needs of the surrounding community by providing a district that will accommodate a wide range of retail goods and services. b. To promote business prosperity by creating an attractive and functional retail center. c. To provide an integrated retail trade center that groups compatible retail uses in one OT more multiple- occupancy buildings. Free standing, single-occupancy buildings will be allowed if planned and constructed as part of a unified development that contains a retail center or is developed after such a retail center is developed. d. To produce a positive visual image by establishing a high standard of design and development. e. To allow transitional uses that will allow an orderly phasing out of existing uses and development that are not appropriate in a contemporary retail center and a phasing in of uses and development as warranted by market conditions. f. To encourage grouping afuses that are mutually supportive and have similar requirements for vehicular and pedestrian accessibility and exposure. g. To alleviate potential traffic congestion on local streets by the design of the circulation pattern and arrangement of uses. h. To implement that part of the Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan known as the Lexington Avenue Business Area Plan. 5-3 . . .