Chapter 17.50 — M-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

Sections:

17.50.010 Purpose 17.50.020 Special provisions and development standards 17.50.030 Permitted Uses 17.50.040 Screening and landscaping-Fences, walls and hedges 17.50.050 Required conditions 17.50.060 Site area 17.50.070 Frontage, width and depth of site 17.50.080 Coverage 17.50.090 Yard requirements 17.50.110 Distance between structures 17.50.110 Building height 17.50.120 Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities 17.50.130 Signs

The M-l district is to be applied to areas designated light industrial on the general plan in order to reserve appropriately located areas for various types of less intense industrial plants and related activities.

All uses in the M-1 district shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 17.71 of this title.

Uses permitted by right and subject to approval of an administrative site plan or conditional use permit in the M-1 district shall be as listed in Section 17.54.030.

In addition to the landscaping requirements of Chapter 17.71 of this title, the following screening and landscaping requirements also apply in the M-1 district:

• A. Where a site adjoins any non-industrial district, a solid wall six (6) feet in height, or such other height or type of screening device as may be required by the director, shall be located on the property line common to such districts, except in a required front yard.

• B. A use not conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure, on a site across a street or alley from any non-industrial district, shall be screened by an ornamental solid wall, not less than six (6) feet in height, if found by the director to be unsightly.

• C. Open storage of materials and equipment shall be permitted only within an area surrounded

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and screened from public view by an ornamental solid wall or fence or compact evergreen hedge (with solid gates where necessary), not less than six (6) feet in height.

• D. No fence or wall shall exceed six (6) feet in height if located in a required side or rear yard or three (3) feet in height if located in a required front yard, except that a chain-link fence greater than three (3) feet in height may be located in any portion of a required front yard.

The following are required conditions in the M-l district:

• A. All open and unlandscaped portions of any lot shall be maintained in good condition free from weeds, dust, trash and debris.

• B. No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment or materials shall be employed which is found to be injurious to persons residing or working in the vicinity by reason of odor, dust, smoke, refuse, noise, vibrations, glare, heavy truck traffic, or to involve any hazard of fire, explosion or radioactivity, or to emit electrical disturbances which adversely affect commercial or electronic equipment outside the boundaries of the site.

• C. No solid or liquid wastes shall be discharged except in compliance with applicable regulations of the regional water quality control board.

• D. No use shall emit particulate matter or other air pollutants in excess of the applicable air pollution emission standards of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, the state of California or of the federal government.

There are no site area limitations in the M-l district except that for any site created after the date this title was adopted, the minimum site area shall be one (1) acre.

There is no frontage, width or depth of site limitations in the M-1 district.

There are no coverage limitations in the M-1 district.

The following are yard requirements in the M-1 district:

• A. Front Yard. The minimum front yard shall be forty (40) feet.

• B. Rear and Side Yards. No rear yard or side yards shall be required except as provided below:

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1. The minimum rear yard abutting any nonindustrial district shall be fifty (50) feet;

2. On a reversed corner lot adjoining a key lot in any nonindustrial district, the minimum side yard adjoining the street shall not be less than one-half the required front yard on the key lot;

3. The minimum side yard abutting any nonindustrial district shall be fifty (50) feet.

There are no limitations on the distance between structures in the M-1 district.

No building in the M-1 district shall exceed a height of fifty (50) feet.

Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities in the M-l district shall be provided on the site for each use as prescribed in Chapter 17.64 of this title.

No signs shall be permitted in the M-1 district except as provided in Chapter 17.72 of this title.

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