[theshrike79]

So a small corner store or 7-11 type operation is "commercial use" and somehow bad?

What kind of thing are you imagining in your head when you say "commercial use"? A massive 10 acre parking lot with a 2 acre steel and glass megastore?

The thing I'm thinking about is most likely smaller than an average house in American suburbia and with a smaller plot. It's not a place where a family of 7 will drive with their gigantic truck and buy groceries for two weeks. It's something you (or your kids) can walk/bike to if you need to grab a few bottles of soda and snacks for a movie night. Or you stop by on the way home from work to get tonights dinner. You also can't buy 48 brands of cereal, maybe 2 or 3 of the most popular ones.

I think you've never experienced a small corner/neighbourhood store and your view of "commercial" is skewed to American Size things where everything is next to a 6 lane stroad with parking lots larger than many European cities.

[db48x]

> So a small corner store or 7-11 type operation is "commercial use"?

Yes, exactly that. These types of commercial uses are only ever placed on the edges of suburban neighborhoods.

But they’re not “bad”. Nobody thinks of them as “bad”. They are simply commercial, and therefore don’t go inside the neighborhoods.

Supermarkets and big box stores are placed even further away.