Glen Canyon Rd, Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Professional Commercial District

The C-P zoning district is intended to apply to all lands designated in the General Plan as professional-commercial. This land use classification is designed to accommodate administrative, business and professional offices of a nonretail nature. The professional commercial zone district is intended to achieve the following purposes: To provide appropriately located areas for offices, service establishments, amusement establishments and businesses offering various ranges of services scaled to meet the needs of different geographical areas and various categories of patrons they serve; To provide opportunities for offices, service establishments, amusement establishments and businesses to concentrate for the convenience of the public and in mutually beneficial relationship to each other; To provide space for community facilities and institutions which appropriately may be located in commercial areas; 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.