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ARTICLE 7. C Commercial Districts
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<br />See. 7.100. Purposes.
<br />In addition to the objectives prescribed in Sec. 1.101, (Objectives),
<br />the C commercial districts are included in the zoning ordinance to
<br />achieve the following purposes:
<br /> a. To provide appropriately located areas for retail stores, offices,
<br /> service establishments, amusement establishments, and whol-
<br /> esale businesses, offering commodities and services required by
<br /> residents of the City a~d its surrounding market area.
<br /> b. To provide opportunities for retail stores, offices, service es-
<br /> tablishments, amusement establishments, and wholesale busi-
<br /> nesses to concentrate for the convenience of the public and in
<br /> mutually beneficial relationship to each other.
<br /> e. To provide space for community facilities an.d institutions that
<br /> appropriately may be located in commercial areas.
<br /> d. To provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern com-
<br /> mercial development, including off-street parking and truck
<br /> loading areas.
<br /> e. To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid the overloa~ing of
<br /> utilities by preventing the construction of buildings of excessive
<br /> size in relation to the amount of l~nd around them.
<br /> f. To protect commercial properties from noise, odor, dust, dirt,
<br /> smoke, vibratlo~, heat, glare, heavy truck traffic, and other
<br /> objectionable influences incidental to i~dustrial uses.
<br /> g. To protect commercial properties from fire, explosion, noxious
<br /> fumes, and other hazards.
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<br />7.100.1. Special Purposes of C-N Neighborhood Commercial District.
<br />a. To provide appropriately located areas for retail stores, offices,
<br />and personal service establishments patronized primarily by res-
<br />idents of the immediate area.
<br /> b. To permit development of neighborbt~od shopping centers of the
<br /> size and in the appropriate locations shown oR the General Plan,
<br /> according to standards that minimize a'dverse impact on adjoin-
<br /> lng residentlal uses.
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<br />7.100.2 Special Purposes of C-C Central Commercial District.
<br /> a. To maintain compactness and encourage more intensive devel-
<br /> opment in Pleasanton's central business district.
<br /> b. To maximize the efficiency of the central district by limiting or
<br /> prohibiting uses that break the continuity of commercial front-
<br /> age or are incompafible with an attractive pedestrian shopping
<br /> area.
<br /> c. To facilitate the establishment of assessment districts for pro-
<br /> vision of off-street parking facilities by limiting or prohibiting
<br /> drive-in types uses that would not benefit substantially from
<br /> public off-street parking facilities.
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<br />7.190.3. Special Purposes of C-R Regional Commercial District.
<br /> a. To provide a large site at an appropriate location for a major
<br /> shopping center drawing trade from the entire Amador-Liver-
<br /> more Valley.
<br /> b. To ensure that a major center will be developed in accord with
<br /> high standards of site planning, architecture, and landscape
<br /> design.
<br /> c. To minimize the adverse effect of major commercial facilities
<br /> on nearby dwelilngs.
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<br /> 7.100.4 Special Purposes of C-S Commercial Service District.
<br /> a. To provide appropriately located areas for commercial uses
<br /> having features that are incompatible with the purposes of the
<br /> other commercial districts.
<br /> b. To provide sites for businesses that typically are not found, in
<br /> shopping centers, that usually have relatively large sites pro-
<br /> riding off-street parking, and that attract little or no pedestrian
<br /> traffic.
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<br /> 7.10~.5 Special Purposes of C-F Freeway Interchange Commercial
<br /> District.
<br /> a. To provide appropriately located areas for establishments cater-
<br /> ing to freeway travelers and tourists.
<br /> b. q~o enhance the appearance of certain entrances to the City,
<br /> and to protect motel and restaurant patrons from nuisances by
<br /> limiting or prohibiting certain commercial service uses that
<br /> ofte~ are u,nsightly or have nuisance features.
<br /> c. To provide appropriately ~ocated areas for establishments that
<br /> generally require large sites and do not require close proximity
<br /> to other commercial uses.
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<br /> 7.100.6 Special Purpose of the C-A Automobile Commercial District.
<br /> a. To provide an opportunity for automobile dealers and closely
<br /> related businesses to benefit from the proximity and high de-
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<br /> sign sta~d,ards possible in a shopping center type of aurorae
<br /> district.
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<br />See. 7.101. Required Conditions.
<br /> a. All uses shall comply with regulations prescribed in Attic]
<br /> (Site, Yard, Bulk, Usable Open Space, and Screening and L
<br /> scaping Regulations).
<br /> b. In a C-N, C-C, or C-R .district all business, services, and
<br /> cesses shall be conducted entirely within a completely eneh
<br /> structure, except for off-street parking and loading areas,
<br /> hibits of goods sold, manufactured, or processed on the p~
<br /> ises, gasoline service stations, outdoor dining areas, nurse
<br /> garden shops, Christmas tree sales lots, bus depots, and ut
<br /> substations and equipment i~stallafions.
<br /> c. In a C-N district all products produced on the site of an'
<br /> the permitted uses shall be so~d primarily at retail on the
<br /> where produced.
<br /> ii. No use shall be permitted, and Bo process, equipment, or m~
<br /> ial shall be employed which is found by the City Planning (
<br /> mission to be objectionable to persons residing or workin
<br /> the vicinity or injurious to property located in the vicinit:
<br /> reason of odor, insect nuisance, fumes, dust, smoke,
<br /> dirt, refuse, water-carried wastes, noise, vibration, illumina
<br /> glare, unsightliness, or heavy truck traffic, or to involve
<br /> hazard ,of fire or explosion. No exterior ilIumination el
<br /> than 200 feet to the boundaries of a site or interior illumim
<br /> closer than 10 feet to a window within 200 feet of the boun
<br /> of a site and visible beyond the boundary of a site, whethn
<br /> 1areal to a sign or not, shall exceed the intensity permitte,
<br /> Sec. 17.101.2 (Illumination).
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<br />Sec. 7.102. Permitted and Conditional Uses.
<br /> a. The following uses shall be permitted uses or conditional
<br /> in a C District where the symbol "P" for permitted use, "C'
<br /> conditional use, er "TC" fer temporary conditional use apl;
<br /> in the column beneath the C ,district.
<br /> C-N C-C C-R C-S C-F
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<br />Accessory uses and structures,
<br />located on the same site as
<br />a permitted use.
<br />Accessory uses and structures,
<br />not including warehouses lo-
<br />cated on the same site as a
<br />permitted use.
<br />Accessory uses and structures,
<br />locate,ct on the same site as a
<br />condifiunal use.
<br />Ad.dressograph services.
<br />Arts and crafts schools and col
<br />leges.
<br />Administrative, business and
<br />professional offices. P
<br />Ambulance service.
<br />Amusement parks.
<br />Applia~nce stores (see electrical
<br />appliance).
<br />Art and artists' supply stores
<br />Art galleries and, stores selling
<br />,objects of art.
<br />Auction rooms.
<br />Auction establishments including
<br />outdoor display.
<br />Automobile and motorcycle racing
<br /> stadiums and drag strips.
<br />Automobile rental agencies
<br />Automobile repairing, overhauling,
<br />rebuilding, and painting.
<br />Automobile sales and services
<br /> including used car sales.
<br />Automobile supply stores.
<br />Automobile upholstery a,nd top shops.
<br />Automobile washing, including use
<br /> of mechanical conveyors,
<br /> blowers, a~d steam cleaners
<br /> Bakeries.
<br />Bakeries, including baking for sale
<br /> on premises only P
<br /> Bail bonds.
<br /> Banks. C
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