New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsThe objectives of the 3a Business zone are:
(a) to provide for and encourage a range of commercial activities that rely on direct and frequent access by members of the public, especially retail, office, entertainment and personal service activities, including those carried out by public authorities, and
(b) to recognise and reinforce a hierarchy of commercial centres, ranging from the three major centres of Batemans Bay, Moruya and Narooma, to village and neighbourhood shopping centres, and
(c) to provide for and encourage intensive tourist accommodation, such as motels and holiday flats, in commercial centres if, and only if, on-site car parking is provided, and
(d) to provide for and encourage dwellings on the upper floors of commercial buildings where on-site car parking is provided and to recognise that residential car parking demand will be lower in such a case than in the case of residential development in localities less convenient to commercial facilities, and
(e) to enable small scale industries to operate in commercial centres, especially where they retail to or directly service the public, and
(f) to ensure that small commercial centres providing primarily for the daily needs of nearby residential areas retain a scale and character consistent with a residential neighbourhood, and
(g) to establish a zone where a broad range of uses is permissible to facilitate more detailed planning in the form of development control plans for specific commercial areas, and
(h) to encourage a high standard of design in commercial centres, and
(i) to encourage access for people with disabilities to commercial buildings.