Chapter 156 — COASTAL ZONING REGULATIONS

§ 156.078 MG — GENERAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS.

Eureka Zoning Code · 2026-06 edition · updated 2026-07-25 · Eureka

(A) Purposes. In addition to the objectives prescribed in § 156.002 of this chapter, the MG General Industrial Districts are included in the zoning regulations to achieve the following purposes:

(1) To reserve appropriately located areas for industrial plants and related activities;
(2) To protect areas appropriate for industrial uses from intrusion by dwellings and other inharmonious uses;
(3) To protect residential and commercial properties and to protect nuisance-free, nonhazardous industrial uses from noise,

odor, insect nuisance, dust, dirt, smoke, vibration, heat and cold, glare, truck and rail traffic, and other objectionable influences and from fire, explosion, noxious fumes, radiation, and other hazards incidental to certain industrial uses;

(4) To provide opportunities for certain types of industrial plants to concentrate in mutually beneficial relationships with each other;

(5) To provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern industrial developments, including off-street parking and truck loading areas and landscaping;

(6) To provide sufficient open space around industrial structures to protect them from the hazard of fire and to minimize the impact of industrial plants on nearby residential and agricultural districts;

(7) 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;

(8) To provide locations where industries that are incompatible with most other land uses can operate with minimum restriction and with minimum adverse effect on other uses.

('63 Code, § 10-5.29170)

(B) Required conditions.
(1) All uses shall comply with the regulations prescribed in §§ 155.025 through 155.036 of this title.

(2) No use shall be permitted which creates any emission which endangers human health, can cause damage to animals, vegetation, or other property, or which can cause soiling at any point beyond the boundaries of the site. In an MG District, no use, except a temporary construction operation, shall be permitted which creates, at any R District boundary, noise of a maximum sound pressure level greater than the values given in the following table:

*Octave Band (Cycles per Second)*	*Maximum Permitted Sound Pressure Level (Decibels)*
Below 75	72
75 - 149	67
150 - 299	59
300 - 599	52
600 - 1,199	46
1,200 - 2,399	40
2,400 - 4,799	34
4,800 and above	32

(3) No use shall be permitted which creates annoying odor in such quantities as to be readily detectable beyond the boundaries of the M District when diluted in the ratio of one volume of odorous air to four volumes of clean air;

(4) No use, except a temporary construction operation, shall be permitted which creates vibration, changes in temperature, direct or sky reflected glare, or electrical disturbances detectable by the human senses without the aid of instruments beyond the boundaries of the site. No use shall be permitted which creates electrical disturbances that affect the operation of any equipment beyond the boundaries of the site;

(5) No use shall be permitted which emits dangerous radioactivity;
(6) No use shall be permitted which creates insect nuisance beyond the boundaries of the site.
('63 Code, § 10-5.29172)
(C) Permitted uses. The following uses, shall be permitted:
(1) All uses listed as permitted uses in the ML District;
(2) Aircraft and aircraft accessories and parts manufacture;
(3) Automobile, trucks, and trailer accessories and parts manufacture;
(4) Automobile, truck, and trailer assembly;
(5) Bag cleaning;
(6) Boiler works;
(7) Box factories and cooperages;
(8) Breweries and distilleries;
(9) Building materials manufacture and assembly, including composition wallboards, partitions, panels, and prefabricated structures;
(10) Business machines manufacture, including accounting machines, calculators, cardcounting equipment, and typewriters;
(11) Can and metal container manufacture;
(12) Candle manufacture, not including rendering;
(13) Carpet and rug manufacture;
(14) Cement products manufacture, including concrete mixing and batching;
(15) Chemical products manufacture provided no hazard of fire or explosion is created, including adhesives, bleaching

products, bluing, calcimine, dyestuffs (except aniline dyes), essential oils, soda and soda compounds, and vegetable gelatin, glue, and size;

(16) Clay products manufacture, including brick, fire brick, tile, and pipe;
(17) Cork manufacture;
(18) Electronics manufacturing;
(18.1) Emergency shelters pursuant to the requirements and regualtions contained in § 156.041 of this chapter.
(19) Firearms manufacture;
(20) Flour, feed and grain mills;

(21) Food products manufacture, including such processes as cooking, dehydrating, roasting, refining, pasteurization, and extraction involved in the preparation of such products as casein, cereal, chocolate and cocoa products, cider and vinegar, coffee, glucose, milk and dairy products, molasses and syrups, oleomargarine, pickles, rice, sauerkraut, sugar, vegetable oils, and yeast;

(22) Glass and glass products manufacture;
(23) Gravel, rock, and cement yards;
(24) Hair, felt, and feathers processing;
(25) Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and similar industrial and household chemical compounds manufacture;
(26) Jute, hemp, sisal, and oakum products manufacture;
(27) Leather and fur furnishing and dyeing, not including tanning and curing;
(28) Machinery manufacture, including heavy electrical, agricultural, construction, and mining machinery, and light

machinery and equipment, such as air conditioning, commercial motion picture equipment, dishwashers, dryers, furnaces, heaters, refrigerators, ranges, stoves, ovens, and washing machines;

(29) Machine tools manufacture, including metal lathes, metal presses, metal stamping machines, and woodworking machines;
(30) Match manufacture;
(31) Meat products processing and packaging, not including slaughtering and glue and size manufacture;
(31.1) Medical cannabis cultivation facilities, indoor, not more than 5,000 square feet of cultivation area, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(31.2) Medical cannabis distribution facilities subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(31.3) Medical cannabis manufacturing facilities, non- volatile, more than 5,000 square feet of floor area, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(31.4) Medical cannabis manufacturing facilities, non- volatile, 5,000 square feet or less of floor area, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158; (31.5) Medical cannabis testing facilities subject to the provisions of Chapter 158; (31.6) Medical cannabis transportation facilities, co- located with a distribution facility, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158; (31.7) Medical cannabis transportation facilities, located separate from a distribution facility, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(32) Metal alloys and foil manufacture, including solder, pewter, brass, bronze, and tin, lead, and gold foil;
(33) Metal casting and foundaries, not including magnesium foundaries;

(34) Mobile vendors as prescribed in §§ 155.220 through 155.221; (35) Motor and generator manufacture; (36) Motor testing of internal combustion motors;

(37) Painting, enameling, and lacquering shops;
(38) Paper products manufacture, including shipping containers, pulp goods, carbon paper, and coated paper stencils; (39) Paraffin products manufacture;
(40) Plastics manufacture;
(41) Porcelain products manufacture, including bathroom and kitchen fixtures and equipment;
(42) Railroad equipment stations manufacture, including railroad car and locomotive manufacture; (43) Railroad freight stations, repair shops, and yards;
(44) Rubber products manufacture, including tires and tubes;
(45) Sandblasting;
(46) Shoe polish manufacture;
(47) Starch and dextrine manufacture;
(48) Steel products manufacture and assembly, including steel cabinets, lockers, doors, fencing and furniture;

(49) Stone products manufacture and stone processing, including abrasives, asbestos, stone screening and sand and lime products;

(50) Structural steel products manufacture, including bars, girders, rails and wire rope;
(51) Textile bleaching;
(52) Wire and cable manufacture;
(53) Wood and lumber processing and woodworking, including planing mills, saw mills, excelsior, plywood, veneer, and wood- preserving treatment;
(54) Wood scouring and pulling.
('63 Code, § 10-5.29172)
(D) Conditional uses. The following conditional uses shall be permitted upon the granting of a use permit in accord with the provisions of §§ 155.280 through 155.299 of this title:
(1) Airports and heliports;
(2) Asphalt and asphalt products manufacture;
(3) Cement, lime, gypsum, and plaster of paris manufacture;
(4) Charcoal, lampblack, and fuel briquettes manufacture;

(5) Chemical products manufacture, including acetylene, aniline dyes, ammonia, carbide, caustic, soda, cellulose, chlorine, cleaning and polishing preparations, creosote, exterminating agents, hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrating of cotton or other materials, nitrates of an explosive nature, potash, pyroxylin, rayon yarn, and carbolic, hydrochloric, picric, and sulfuric acids;

(6) Coal, coke, and tar products manufacture;
(7) Drop forges;
(8) Dumps and slag piles;
(9) Fertilizer manufacture;
(10) Film manufacture;
(11) Fireworks manufacture and storage;
(12) Fish products processing and packaging;
(13) Garbage dumps;
(14) Gas manufacture or storage;
(15) Gas and oil wells;
(16) Gelatine, glue, and size manufacture from animal or fish refuse;
(17) Incineration or reduction of garbage, offal, and dead animals;
(18) Junk yards;
(19) Lard manufacture;
(20) Linoleum and oil cloth manufacture;
(21) Magnesium foundries;
(22) Manure, peat, and topsoil processing and storage;
(22.1) Medical cannabis cultivation facilities, mixed light, not more than 10,000 square feet of cultivation area, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(22.2) Medical cannabis dispensing facilities subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(22.3) Medical cannabis manufacturing facilities, volatile, more than 1,500 square feet of floor area, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(22.4) Medical cannabis manufacturing facilities, volatile 1,500 square feet or less of floor area, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158;
(23) Metal and metal ores reduction, refining, smelting, and alloying;
(24) Motor vehicle wrecking yards;
(25) Oil and gas pipelines;
(26) Paint manufacture, including enamel, lacquer, shellac, turpentine, and varnish;
(27) Paper mills;
(28) Petroleum and petroleum products storage;
(29) Pulp mills;
(30) Rifle ranges;
(31) Rolling mills;
(32) Rubber manufacture or processing, including natural or synthetic rubber and gutta-percha;
(33) Soap manufacture, including fat rendering;
(34) Steam plants;
(35) Stockyards and slaughterhouses;
(36) Storage of inflammable liquids;
(37) Storage of used building materials;
(38) Tallow manufacture;
(40) Tanneries and curing and storage of rawhides;
(41) Wood and bones distillation;
(42) Wood pulp and fiber reduction and processing;
(43) Storage of logs or wood chips;

(44) Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditional use; and

('63 Code, § 10-5.29173)

(45) Wireless telecommunication facilities located within 100 feet of an R District subject to the provisions of Chapter 159.

(D.1) Minor conditional uses. The following conditional uses shall be permitted upon the granting of a minor use permit in accord with the provisions of §§ 155.280 through 155.299 of this title:

(1) Medical cannabis cultivation facilities, indoor, 10,000 square feet or less of cultivation area, subject to the provisions of Chapter 158.
(E) Off-street parking. Off-street parking facilities shall be provided for each use as prescribed in §§ 155.115 through 155.124 of this title.

('63 Code, § 10-5.29174)

(F) Off-street loading. Off-street loading facilities shall be provided for each use as prescribed in §§ 155.135 through 155.141 of this title.

('63 Code, § 10-5.29175)

(G) Signs. No sign, outdoor advertising structure, or display of any character shall be permitted except as prescribed in §§ 155.155 through 155.169 of this title.

('63 Code, § 10-5.29176)

(H) Site plan review and architectural review. All permitted uses shall be subject to site plan review as prescribed in §§ 155.180 through 155.188 of this title. Conditional uses shall be subject to architectural review. ('63 Code, § 10-5.29177)

(Ord. 417-C.S., passed 12-6-84; Am. Ord. 631-C.S., passed 9-7-99; Am. Ord. 757-C.S., passed 10-19-10; Am. Ord. 768-C.S., passed 5-3-11; Am. Ord. 786-C.S., passed 8-21-12; Am. Ord. 842-C.S., passed 7-19-16; Am. Ord. 847-C.S., passed 9-20-16) Penalty, see § 150.999

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