A.
The purpose of the commercial zones is to provide for the employment, shopping, services, and resource needs of residents, property owners, employees, and visitors to the City. The intent of the commercial zones is to provide distinct regulations for size, intensity, and design to reflect the variety of desired development patterns. The purpose and applicability of each commercial zone identified in Table 18.10.010.A (Zones, Overlay Zones, and Specific Plans) are as follows:
1.
General Commercial (C-G) Zone. The intent and purpose of the C-G zone is to designate areas within the City for providing a full range and wide variety of retail commercial stores and service establishments along major corridors to serve residents and the broader community. The C-G zone should be protected from uses of land that are more compatible with industrial activities.
2.
Community Commercial (C-C) Zone. The intent and purpose of the C-C zone is to designate certain areas for the development of neighborhood shopping areas and individual or multi-tenant development, adjacent to or within residential neighborhoods of the City. Neighborhood shopping areas shall provide commercial goods and services appropriate and compatible with the residential area and patterns of development. The C-C zone should provide for land uses and development that provide a convenient neighborhood commercial function to serve surrounding residential neighborhoods.
3.
Commercial Manufacturing (C-M) Zone. The intent and purpose of the C-M zone is to designate certain areas of the City for the development of general commercial uses with functions that involve wholesaling and limited manufacturing uses. The C-M zone should provide for land uses and development that does not conflict with adjacent properties while acting as a buffer near more intensive uses.
4.
Professional Administrative (P-A) Zone.
a.
Purpose. The intent and purpose of the P-A zone is to designate certain areas within the City for the use and development of business office centers and complexes; institutional, professional, and administrative facilities; and other similar uses of land specializing in the rendering of services. The zone classification is designed to be applied on areas of the community of a general business nature and to limit and restrict uses of land wherein the general development of mixed commercial uses would not be appropriate or compatible.
b.
Applicability. Application of the P-A zone must be clearly defined and protected from the encroachment of land uses and development that do not exhibit or perform a service rendering function and purpose.
5.
Commercial Planned Development (CPD) Zone.
a.
Purpose. The intent and purpose of the CPD zone is to provide for a more efficient, appropriate, and desirable commercial use of land which integrates land planning, design, and physical characteristics sufficiently unique, creative, innovative, and imaginative in nature and scope and to provide for the unified control of architectural design features and a method by which existing deteriorating commercial activity can be revitalized through both private and public interests.
b.
Applicability. In order to qualify for application of the CPD zone, land must first be recognized in the commercial land use element of the General Plan; be of sufficient size, shape, and configuration for the division of land and interests in common; and demonstrate a clear need for revitalization and commercial land use distributions that cannot be adequately provided for in the P-A, C-N, C-C, or C-G zones. The development of property herein shall be determined by and subject to a Conditional Use Permit.
(Ord. 1201, 12/9/2025)
