3.2 ML: LIMITED INDUSTRIAL ZONE

The Limited Industrial or ML Zone is intended to apply to areas in which light manufacturing and heavy commercial uses of the non-nuisance type and large administrative facilities are the desirable predominant uses. The following regulations shall apply in all Limited Industrial or ML Zones. (Former Section INL#314-43; Ord. 1086, Sec. 11, 7/13/76; Amended by Ord. 2214, 6/6/00; Amended by Ord. 2472, Sec. 1, 2/14/12)

314-3.2 ML: LIMITED INDUSTRIAL Principal Permitted Uses Small animal hospitals completely enclosed within a building. (From Section INL#314-37(b)(2); Ord. 1086, Sec. 8, 7/13/76)

Stores, agencies and services such as carpentry and cabinet-making shops, clothing manufacture, contractors’ yards, dry cleaning and laundry plants, handicraft manufacture, lumber yards, metalworking shops, wholesale outlet stores, painters’ and decorators’ yards, plumbing shops, printing, lithographing and major auto repair. (From Section INL#314-37(b)(3); Ord. 1086, Sec. 8, 7/ 13/76)

Administrative, business and professional offices. (From Section INL#314-43(a)(2))

Manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment, of household effects such as lamps, rugs and fabrics, and research and development laboratories. (From Section INL#314-43(a)(3)) Emergency shelters. Uses Permitted With a Special Permit Single-room occupancy facilities which are conversions of existing buildings.

The Humboldt County Code is current through Ordinance 2784, passed March 10, 2026.

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314-3.2 ML: LIMITED INDUSTRIAL
Uses Permitted With a Use Permit
Dwellings, accessory dwelling units, manufactured homes, hotels, motels, and manufactured home
parks. (Amended by Ord. 2335, 12/14/04)
Animal hospitals and kennels.
Animal feed and sales yards.
Manufacture of furniture, finished paper and paper products.
Mini-storage.
Emergency dependent unit villages and alternative lodge parks.
Any use not specifically enumerated in this division, if it is similar to and compatible with the uses
permitted in the ML Zone.
Other Regulations
Minimum Lot Area One acre (1a).
Minimum Lot Width (None specified.)
Minimum Yard Setbacks*
Front Fifty feet (50');
Rear Fifty feet (50');
Side Ten percent (10%) of average-lot width but not less
than twenty-five feet (25').
Maximum Ground Coverage Twenty-five percent (25%).
Maximum Building Height Seventy-five feet (75').
All manufacturing and fabricating areas shall be
enclosed in buildings; and
All equipment and materials storage areas adjacent
Special Regulations
to Residential (RS, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4) Zones shall be
screened by walls, fences or adequate plantings to
a height of not less than six (6) feet; and
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314-3.2 ML: LIMITED INDUSTRIAL
Said fencing and screening shall conform to all yard
requirements.
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*** Note:** Setbacks may be modified by other provisions of this Code or State law. For example, see Section 314-22.1, “Alquist-Priolo Fault Hazard” and the “Fire Safe” Regulations at Title III, Division 11.

(Former Section INL#314-43(a)(1-3); INL#314-43(b); INL#314-43(c))