24.05.110 PURPOSES — Imperial Zoning Code

In addition to the objectives outlined in Section 24.01 (Purposes and Scope), the Commercial Zones are included in the Zoning Regulations to achieve the following purposes:

A. To provide appropriately located areas for office use, retail stores, service establishments, and wholesale businesses, offering commodities and services required by residents of the City and its surrounding market area.
B. To encourage office and commercial uses to concentrate for the convenience of the public and for a more mutually beneficial relationship to each other.
C. To provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern commercial development, including off-street parking and loading areas.
D. 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.
E. To protect commercial properties from noise, odor, smoke, unsightliness, and other objectionable influences incidental to industrial uses.
F. To promote high standards of site planning, architecture and landscape design for office and commercial developments within the City of Imperial.

C-1 Commercial Neighborhood Zone

This zone is intended for professional, administrative offices, restaurant, theatre, health clubs, and for neighborhood shopping centers which provide limited retail business service and office facilities for the convenience of residents of the neighborhood. These stopping centers are intended to be compatible with residential environment as at locations indicated on the General Plan.

C-2 Commercial General Zone

This zone is intended as an area for the location of highway oriented retail service and wholesale commercial activities.

V-C Village Commercial Zone

The Village Commercial Zone is intended as the social and civic heart of the City of Imperial with attractive housing, small retail shops, outdoor dining, parks, and civic facilities in a vibrant, pedestrian friendly and family-oriented atmosphere.

CITY OF IMPERIAL, CALIFORNIA ZONING ORDINANCE