440 Kings Village Rd, Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Light Industrial District

The I-L district is intended to apply to all lands designated in the General Plan as light industrial. This land use classification is designed to accommodate industrial and industrially related land uses and provide a location for businesses that are inappropriate in commercial or residential zones because of their operations or sizes and because they may create noise, odor, dust or glare and create impacts to traffic, the aquifer or air quality. Uses in this classification shall not encroach upon the character of adjoining land uses and will not expose adjoining uses to hazardous conditions.; The light industrial district is intended to achieve the following purposes: To reserve appropriately located areas for industrial plants and related activities; To protect areas appropriate for industrial uses from intrusion by dwellings and other inharmonious uses; To protect residential and commercial properties and nuisance-free nonhazardous industrial uses from noise, odor, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat, glare and other objectional influences such as fire, explosion, noxious fumes, radiation and other hazards incidental to certain industrial uses; To provide opportunities for certain types of industrial plants to concentrate in mutually beneficial relationships to each other; To provide sufficient open space to meet the needs of modern industrial building development, including off-street parking and truck loading areas and landscaping; To provide sufficient open space around industrial structures to protect them from the hazard of fire and to minimize the impacts of industrial plants on nearby residential districts; 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 regulate the number and concentration of industrial uses that use significant amounts of hazardous materials; To construct and preserve an attractive industrial zoning district with generous amounts of landscaping and careful consideration towards architecture and appearance from the freeway.