Local Business, General Business, Shopping Center and Motorist Service Districts and their regulations are established herein in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To provide in appropriate and convenient locations, zoning districts of sufficient size for the exchange of goods and services and other business activities;
(b) To provide Local Business Districts to serve the need for convenience goods in proximity to the immediate neighborhood which do not attract large volumes of traffic;
(c) To provide General Business Districts which require larger land areas, which may be open in evenings and which generate large volumes of traffic serving the need for shopping and convenience goods and services of the entire community;
(d) To provide Shopping Center Districts where compatible business facilities with functional relationships will be planned, organized and grouped in a unified arrangement of buildings and service facilities, all designed on a designated area of sufficient dimensions to satisfy all off-street parking demands and located along major arterial streets where the traffic generated by such development can be accommodated in such a manner that the public health, welfare and safety of the surrounding area will be maintained;
(e) To provide Motorist Service Districts in proximity to the intersections of major arterial streets and freeway interchanges to serve the personal needs of motorists, and to provide facilities for the servicing of vehicles;
(f) To establish criteria and procedures for planned business areas so they may be coordinated with surrounding developments;
(g) To protect adjacent residential neighborhoods by regulating the types and spacing of business use, particularly at the common boundaries, which would create hazards, noise, odors or other objectionable influences; and
(h) To promote the most desirable land use and traffic patterns in accordance with the objectives and the Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 1978-165. Passed 10-16-78.)
(Ord. 1978-165. Passed 10-16-78.)