The Community Shopping Center (CS) Zone classification is to provide limited retail business, service, and office facilities for the convenience of the residents of the area.

(Prior code § 10-2.1600)

In the CS Zone the following specified regulations shall govern, unless otherwise provided in this chapter:

(a)

General.

(1)

Community shopping centers serve a grouping of several neighborhood trading areas. Community shopping centers should be located near the center of their trading areas and be served by major arterial streets. Access to the areas should be controlled in order to lessen through traffic on the major streets.

(2)

Community shopping centers are to provide limited retail business, service, and office facilities for the convenience of the residents of the area.

(b)

New shopping centers.

(1)

No new CS zoning shall be established, except in accordance with the regulations set forth in this chapter. All buildings shall be used or occupied, and every building shall be erected, constructed, established, altered, enlarged, maintained, or moved into or within the CS Zone exclusively and only in accordance with the regulations set forth in this Article.

(2)

New CS zoning shall not be established upon a parcel of land which would contain a nonconforming use, building, or structure, unless the development plan for the shopping center includes the elimination of the nonconforming use, building, or structure.

(3)

The petitioner shall submit to the Commission a development plan containing a traffic circulation plan showing the adequacy of the streets, access ways, parking and internal traffic circulation, and a unified and organized arrangement of the buildings and service facilities which are feasible for the property on which the center is to be located. Such plan shall contain information showing compliance with the requirements of this chapter and any other law or Code of the City.

(4)

The petitioner or developer shall be required to pay the cost of the construction and installation of the improvements on the streets abutting the shopping center district, including any acceleration and deceleration lanes or traffic channelization devices deemed necessary to control traffic, and shall dedicate or deed land abutting the shopping center for street widening purposes when so required by the City.

(5)

Performance bonds shall be required by the City for the construction of all improvements in the CS Zone, including all paving, curbing, lighting, ingress and egress to the general site as provided in subsection (4) of this subsection, and/or any other improvements deemed necessary by the City. No building permit shall be issued until such bonds have been posted.

(6)

Building permits.

(i)

No building permit shall be issued for any structure in the CS Zone until the final site development plan for the entire center has been submitted and approved by the Commission. No change shall be made in the final site plan during the course of construction without first obtaining the prior approval of the Community Development Department and Public Works Department. Copies of the approved final site development plan shall be submitted to and kept on record by the Community Development Department and the Public Works Department and the Building Inspector, and any change which may be approved shall be noted thereon.

(Ord. 1046 § 1, 2003; prior code § 10-2.1601)

(a)

In the CS Zone, only limited retail business, service, and office facilities which are included in the following Use Groups shall be permitted without conditional approval:

(b)

In the CS Zone, limited retail businesses, services, and office facilities which are included in the following Use Groups shall be permitted only with conditional use permits:

(Ord. 1050 § 3, 2003; prior code § 10-2.1602)

(Ord. No. 1177, § 9, 1-15-2013)

Signs shall be permitted in the CS Zone in compliance with the provisions of Article 35 of this chapter.

(Prior code § 10-2.1603)

The minimum required building site area in the CS Zone shall be not less than six (6) acres, unless otherwise provided for in this chapter.

(Prior code § 10-2.1604)

(See sections 10.08.2120 and 10.08.2140 of this Article.)

(Prior code § 10-2.1605)

Minimum yards in the CS Zone shall be as follows:

(a)

Front yards. The same as the most restrictive adjacent zone along the street frontages; and

(b)

Side and rear yards. Fifteen (15) feet, except where adjoining a commercial or industrial zone there shall be no yard requirements.

(Prior code § 10-2.1606)

There shall be no height requirements in the CS Zone.

(Prior code § 10-2.1607)

The lot coverage in the CS Zone shall conform to the design standards as approved in the final site development plan as set forth in this Article. However, buildings, parking, and accessory access routes shall not constitute more than ninety (90) percent of the total development area.

(Prior code § 10-2.1608)

There shall be no minimum floor area requirements in the CS Zone.

(Prior code § 10-2.1609)

Off-street parking in the CS Zone shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Article 26 of this chapter.

(Prior code § 10-2.1610)

The usable open space in the shopping center area shall conform to the final site development plan as set forth in this Article. However, a minimum of ten (10) percent of the total area shall be reserved for pedestrian malls, landscaping, or other open spaces.

(Prior code § 10-2.1611)

All commercial property in the CS Zone shall provide for loading and unloading space upon such property.

(Prior code § 10-2.1612)

All uses requiring a building permit shall obtain development review compliance, except as provided for in Article 30 of this chapter and the CEQA Guidelines adopted by the City, prior to being established in the CS Zone.

(Prior code § 10-2.1613)