4418 W 117th St, Hawthorne, CA 90250

General Commercial Classification District

The principal purpose and objective of this classification and its application is to provide for the location of and grouping of enterprises which may involve some on-premises retail service but which involve a greater amount of outside activities and display or fabrication, assembling and service features, including manufacturing and processing in limited degree, than do uses permitted to locate in a more restrictive zone and which uses, if permitted to locate in a purely on-premises retail and services area, would introduce factors of heavy trucking and handling of materials that destroy the maximum service and attraction of strictly retail areas. The uses first permitted in this classification are considered as having common or similar performance standards in that: They involve a degree of noise, outside activities and accessory storage greater than are involved in uses first permitted in the strictly commercial zones, but such factors are measurably lighter than are involved in uses first permitted in the industrial zones.; They do not attract, nor do they depend upon individual and personal patron contact on the premises to the same degree as do uses first permitted in the commercial zones, but, rather, represent in part enterprises whose services are either performed away from the premises and throughout the city, or enterprises in which the manufacturing, assembling, processing or treating of products is not accessory or limited to products sold on the premises only, as is required in retail and service areas.; They can more advantageously use the standard lot and street pattern than can strictly industrial uses.