Los Angeles Zoning Code — LAMC Chapter 1A Div. 5D.9 Heavy Industrial Uses

Heavy industrial uses are defined as uses involving manufacturing, processing of animal products, waste, or extraction activities, which requires siting away from the general public due to potentially adverse impacts on the immediate surroundings.

Animal products processing is defined as a heavy industrial use involving one or more of the following: preparing and processing of meat, poultry, or seafood and their byproducts; refining or rendering animal fat, bones, and meat scraps; preparing, tanning, and finishing hides and skins; dressing or dyeing furs; and animal slaughtering.

Manufacturing, heavy is defined as any heavy industrial use involving the making or processing of materials or components into finished products.

A. General

Manufacturing, heavy: general is defined as manufacturing that requires significant health, safety, or environmental precautions due to potential adverse impacts from the manufacturing process on immediate surroundings. This use includes, but is not limited to, the manufacturing of heavy machinery, motor vehicles, aircraft and watercraft, primary metal products, wood or paper products, metal fabrication, or manufacturing involving the processing, mixing, or refinement of inorganic raw materials. This use does not include those uses defined in Sec. 5D.9.2.B. (Manufacturing, Heavy: Chemical Products). This use does not include those uses defined in Sec. 5D.9.2.C. (Manufacturing, Heavy: Petroleum & Coal Products).

B. Chemical Products

Manufacturing, heavy: chemical products is defined as any manufacturing, heavy use producing basic chemicals or manufacturing products by predominantly chemical processes. Includes, but is not limited to, production of acid, alkali, organic chemical, salt, dry color, pigment, synthetic fiber, fertilizer, explosives, or paint. This use does not include those uses defined in Sec. 5D.9.2.C. (Manufacturing, Heavy: Petroleum & Coal Products).

c. Petroleum & Coal Products

Manufacturing, heavy: petroleum & coal products is defined as any manufacturing, heavy use that processes petroleum, coal, plastic, or rubber materials into products, including the refining of petroleum, gas, or other hydrocarbons.

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Salvage yard is defined as any heavy industrial use having any portion of the use located outdoors where a junk dealer or automobile dismantler operates, or where partially dismantled, obsolete, or wrecked automobiles are stored. This use does not include motor vehicle storage, for such uses see Sec. 5D.7.5. (Storage, Outdoor).

Recycling facility is defined as any use that includes the recovery and processing of recyclable or reusable materials.

A. Collection

Recycling facility: collection is defined as any recycling facility use where recyclable materials including, but not limited to, paper, plastic, glass, metal, newspaper, or cardboard, are deposited or redeemed for monetary value. This use includes baling or crushing operations for the purposes of efficient storage and transfer, but shall not include sorting or processing activities other than for temporary storage purposes. This use includes reverse vending machines and buyback centers.

B. Sorting & Processing

Recycling facility: sorting & processing is defined as any recycling facility use that accepts recyclable materials for on-site sorting or processing. For the purpose of this definition, processing shall mean the process of changing the physical characteristics of a recyclable material, including the shredding, smelting, grinding and crushing of cans, bottles, and other materials, other than for temporary storage purposes. This use includes the transfer and processing of scrap metals.

Waste facility is defined as any heavy industrial use involving the receipt, storage, separation, conversion, combustion, processing of solid waste, transfer of waste directly from small to larger vehicles for transport, or operation as a landfill. This use includes facilities involved in the transfer, processing, and transformation of organic waste, construction and demolition debris, inert material, solid waste.

A. Organic Waste

Waste facility: organic waste is defined as any waste facility use that receives any material that comes from a plant or animal and is biodegradable, for chipping and grinding, composting, curing, mulching or similar processing methods. This use does not include any chipping and grinding, composting, curing, or mulching conducted as part of the maintenance of landscaped areas associated with any public & institutional uses or open space & recreation uses.

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B. Hazardous Waste

Waste facility: hazardous waste is defined as any waste facility use involving the storage, treatment, and disposal of hazardous waste, as defined in the California Health and Safety Code, Sec. 25117.1. (Definitions).

c. Solid Waste

Waste facility: solid waste is defined as any waste facility use that does not involve any storage, treatment, and disposal of hazardous waste, or that does not exclusively receive organic waste. For such uses, see Sec. 5D.9.5.B. (Waste Facility: Hazardous Waste) and Sec. 5D.9.5.A. (Waste Facility: Organic Waste).

Mineral & ore extraction is defined as any use engaged in the extraction of metallic minerals, nonmetallic minerals, or other natural compounds. This use includes the exploration or development of any lot for such purposes, and any preparation of those resources until the point of shipment from the producing property. This use includes metal ore mining, nonmetallic mineral mining, and quarrying. This use does not include extraction, recovery, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other hydrocarbon materials, for these activities see Sec. 5D.9.7. (Oil, Gas, or Hydrocarbon Well).

Any well or hole already drilled, being drilled or to be drilled into the surface of the earth which is used or intended to be used in connection with coring or the drilling for prospecting for or producing petroleum, natural gas or other hydrocarbon substances, or is used or intended to be used for the subsurface injection into the earth of oil field waste, gases, water or liquid substances, including any such existing hole, well or casing which has not been abandoned in accordance with the requirements of Chapter V. (Public Safety and Protection), Sec. 57.5706.3.16. (Abandonment of Oil Wells) and the mitigation monitoring program and well plugging and abandonment mitigation measures adopted with Ordinance No. 187,709 (Oil and Gas Drilling Ordinance). This use does not include any well operated by a public utility regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission.

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