100 Castle Ridge Way, Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Service Commercial District

The C-S district is intended to apply to all lands designated in the General Plan as service commercial. This district is designed to create and maintain areas accommodating city-wide and regional service that may be inappropriate in neighborhood or pedestrian-oriented shopping areas and which generally require automotive access for customer convenience, servicing of vehicles or equipment, loading or unloading, or parking of commercial service vehicles.; The service commercial zone is intended to achieve the following purposes: To provide appropriately located areas for retail stores, offices, service establishments and businesses offering various ranges of commodities and services scaled to meet the needs of different geographical areas and various categories of patrons they serve; To provide opportunities for retail stores, offices, service establishments and businesses to concentrate for the convenience of the public and in mutually beneficial relationship to each other; [C. Reserved.]; To provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern commercial development, including off-street parking and truck loading facilities; To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid the overloading of utilities by preventing the construction of buildings of excessive size in relation to the amount of land around them; To protect commercial properties from noise, odor, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare, heavy truck traffic and other objectionable influences incidental to industrial uses; To protect commercial properties from fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards.