Provide for appropriate commercial areas to provide the city with a sound retail and industrial base with employment opportunities for the community.

To ensure compatibility of retail commercial and office uses with adjacent land uses and to minimize traffic congestion and overloading of the city's utility systems.

To encourage and assure that new commercial and industrial development will be planned in a comprehensive manner with high standards of architecture, landscape and site design.

Neighborhood Commercial (NC). The neighborhood commercial designation includes smaller-scale business activities which generally provide retail or convenience services for the local residents in the surrounding neighborhood. Typical uses include traditional small food markets (floor area less than twenty-five thousand square feet), drug stores, clothing stores, sporting goods, offices, hardware stores, child care and community facilities.

Community Commercial (CC). The community commercial designation includes retail, professional office and service-oriented business activities which serve the entire community. Community commercial areas typically include some neighborhood commercial uses as well as larger retail uses including department stores, theaters, restaurants, professional offices, specialty retail stores and shopping centers.

Highway/Tourist Commercial (HT). The highway commercial designation is intended to provide for those uses that are located adjacent to major transportation routes or within convenient access from freeway interchanges. Highway commercial development should be located near major arterials, and developed as clusters of commercial development rather than permitted to extend along the major streets. Typical uses may include tourist accommodations and lodging facilities, automobile service stations, restaurants, convenience shopping, and food stores, and gift shops.

Service Commercial (SC). The service commercial designation is intended to provide for intensive commercial uses and selected light manufacturing uses that typically require extensive floor area. Typical uses include home improvement stores, discount retail stores, furniture stores, auto dealerships and auto service and repair. Warehousing and light manufacturing may be permitted as supporting uses for a business that is consistent with the service commercial designation.

Professional Office (PO). The professional office designation includes primarily single-tenant or multitenant offices and may include supporting uses. The office developments are intended to include lowrise offices situated in a landscaped garden arrangement and may include mid-rise structures at appropriate locations. Typical uses include legal, design, engineering or medical offices, corporate and governmental offices, and community facilities. Limited supporting convenience retail and personal service (such as dry cleaners, barbers, shoe repair shop) commercial may be permitted to serve the needs of the on-site employees. A maximum of fifteen percent of the total square footage of the floor area shall be devoted to retail or personal service uses. Residential uses may be allowed on those PO properties that are subject to the affordable housing overlay.

Business Park District (BP). It is the intent of the business park zoning designation to develop well designed business and employment centers that include attractive and distinctive architectural design, innovative site planning, and substantial landscaping and visual quality. Typical uses may include administrative offices, research and development laboratories, custom-made product manufacturing, processing, assembling, packaging, and fabrication of goods, such as jewelry, furniture, art objects, clothing, on-site wholesale of goods produced, and labor intensive manufacturing, assembly, and repair processes which do not involve frequent truck traffic. Retail uses are not permitted in this zoning district, except as supporting a principal business park use (limited to fifteen percent of the square footage of the development).

Light Industrial District (LI). It is the intent of the light industrial zoning designation to promote the development of attractive comprehensively planned industrial uses that will help to provide the city with a sound and diverse industrial base. This district allows for a wide variety of industrial uses, including manufacturing, compounding of materials, processing, assembling, packaging, treatment or fabrication of materials, and products which require frequent truck activity or the transfer of heavy or bulky items. Wholesaling, storage and warehousing within enclosed building, storage and wholesale to retailers from the premises of finished goods and food products are also allowed. Also included in this zoning district are the following uses: warehousing, freight handling, shipping, truck services and terminals, storage and wholesaling from the premises of unrefined raw or semirefined products requiring further processing or manufacturing. Storage of raw or finished materials may occur outside providing there is adequate screening from adjoining land use areas. Standards are provided to protect adjoining uses from excessive noise, odor, smoke toxic materials, and other potentially objectionable impacts.

Special Use Overlay Zone No. 1. It is the intent of the special use overlay zone No. 1 to designate areas that adult businesses may be considered provided that they meet the provisions of Chapter 5.09 of the Temecula Municipal Code. This area is generally away from residential uses and other sensitive uses and is primarily located within the commercial districts.

Commercial/Office/Industrial Incentives—Increases in the Floor Area Ratio. As part of the process of reviewing and approving an application for a development plan or conditional use permit, the approval authority may consider an increase in the maximum allowable intensity as indicated in Table 17.08.040A. The amount of the increased intensity shall not exceed the maximum of the density range or floor area ratio stated for the specific land use designation. The requested increase may not be approved if the city's traffic engineer determines that the increased intensity would create an unmitigatable impact upon traffic circulation or would overburden any utilities serving the area. To be eligible for an increase in the floor area ratio, the applicant must meet the following:

Trash Collection Areas. Trash collection areas shall be located within a screened enclosure. The enclosure should not be visible from a public street or from any adjacent residential area. Trash collection shall include separate facilities for the recycling of paper, bottles, plastic and aluminum. Additional design requirements are provided in the performance standards of this chapter.

Outside Storage and Service Areas.

Lighting. All lighting fixtures, including spotlights, electrical reflectors and other means of illumination for signs, structures, landscaping, parking, loading, unloading and similar areas, shall be focused, directed and arranged to prevent glare or direct illumination on streets or adjoining property.

Mechanical Equipment. Mechanical equipment used in the manufacturing process may be required to be enclosed in a building and roof-mounted accessory equipment may be required to be screened from view.

Retail Sales. Retail sales and services that are incidental to permitted use are subject to the following conditions:

Temporary Office Modules.

Flag Poles. A maximum height of seventy-five feet.

Stairs. All staircases and stairwells shall be located entirely within and incorporated into the design of the building.

Security Bars. All security bars shall be entirely located within the building and shall not be visible from the exterior of the building and the public right-of-way. Security bars shall include any device physically installed for the security of a building whether placed on a door or window. All security bars shall be compliant with the adopted edition of the California Building and Fire Code.

Purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide for uniform performance standards and criteria for the design of commercial buildings within the city in accordance with the recognition that the quality and compatibility of building design directly impacts the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the community. Moreover, quality and compatible building design promotes and preserves the stability of the city through orderly growth and enhancement of a quality business environment. These purposes are further achieved through the following:

General Performance Standards. Developments in the commercial/office/industrial districts should be designed to provide variety and visual interest while still creating a unified overall image. Performance standards to achieve this image include, but are not limited to, the following:

Commercial Development Performance Standards.

Industrial Development Performance Standards.

Additional Performance Standards for Office Buildings in the Business Park (BP) and Light Industrial (LI) Zones. In order to encourage desirable characteristics of these zones, multiple free standing office buildings must be designed to be compatible with the surrounding scale. Performance standards to achieve this include, but are not limited to, the following:

Noise. Any existing or proposed uses which generate sounds that are or may be considered a nuisance or hazard to any adjacent property due to the intermittence, beat, frequency, or shrillness of the sounds, shall have the source of the noise muffled or otherwise controlled so that the noise is subdued to acceptable levels. Construction work is exempt from this requirement during the period a valid building permit is in force.

Particulate Matter. Any existing or proposed use shall not discharge excessive particulate matter into the atmosphere for a period that exceeds three minutes in any one hour. The following standards establish maximum acceptable levels:

Odors, Toxics and Noxious Matter. Any existing or proposed use which produces odors, toxic gases or noxious matter in such quantities as can or may be readily detectable at any point outside the property lines of the premises and when such emissions are or may become a public nuisance or hazard, the use shall be modified to prevent such releases.

Vibration. Any existing or proposed use which generates vibrations that can or may be considered a nuisance or hazard on any adjacent property shall be cushioned or isolated to prevent generation of such vibrations.

Glare. Any existing or proposed use that constitutes or may be considered a nuisance or hazard on any adjacent property due to emittance of excessive light or glare from mechanical or chemical processes or from reflective materials used or stored on the site shall be shielded or otherwise modified to prevent such emissions.

Heat, Radiation and Electromagnetic Disturbances. Any existing or proposed use that can or may generate excessive heat, electrical disturbances or radioactive emissions that can or may be considered hazardous or a nuisance shall be shielded, contained or otherwise modified to prevent such generations, disturbances or emissions.