the residents of the immediately surrounding neighborhood (e.g., personal service uses, restaurants, and limited retail ). Development in the district should not include uses of a size that are out of scale with a residential neighborhood. ###
Read it in the chapter →How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Portsmouth’s own text settles what this covers.