13.20.040 Regional significance.

Centers of regional significance are those that market products over a broad area (region) having a circumferential radius of 5 to 50 miles. The center provides commercial activity substantially equivalent to the central business district of a city and markets a wide selection of general merchandise, including apparel, home furnishings, and a variety of services and recreational facilities. The regional center has a total gross leasable areas of greater than 500,000 square feet including at least three department stores of generally not less than 100,000 square feet each. Parking shall be provided in the ratio of five spaces for each 1,000 square feet of floor area.

All facilities shall be contiguous to a site that has been planned for the development of internal traffic circulation and layout of buildings and structures. This definition is not to be confused with areas that have developed as strip commercial or community commercial having direct access from the system of county roads or arterials.

Signing to the center from county arterial routes shall be based on the fact that the traffic generated from (to) the facility is substantial (in excess of 17,250 vehicle trips per day based on the 1976 Institute of Transportation engineer’s traffic generation rates for centers of 500,000 square feet or greater) and that public safety and convenience is enhanced by the installation of such signing. (Sec. 4, Ord. No. 1978-07-24)