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Title 17 — ZONING

McFarland Municipal Code Ch. 17.92 M-3 Zone

McFarland Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · McFarland

Cite as: McFarland Municipal Code Chapter 17.92 · Text as of 2026-10-04

17.92.010 - Applicability.

The regulations set forth in this chapter shall apply in the M-3 general manufacturing zone unless otherwise provided in this title.

(Ord. 109 § 23.00, 1969)

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17.92.020 - Uses permitted.

The uses permitted in the M-3 zone are as follows:

A. Any use permitted in the M-2 zone; provided, however, that no building shall be used as a dwelling except accessory buildings which are incidental to the use of the land.

B. Any of the following uses:

  1. Acetylene gas manufacture or storage.

  2. Alcohol and alcoholic beverage manufacture.

  3. Ammonia, chlorine, and bleaching powder manufacture.

  4. Bag cleaning.

  5. Blast furnaces.

  6. Boiler or tank works.

  7. Brick, tile or terra cotta products manufacture.

  8. Building materials manufacture.

  9. Candle factories.

  10. Celluloid or pyroxylin manufacture.

  11. Cement and lime manufacturing plant equipped with dust-collecting equipment capable of collecting at least ninety-seven percent of all particulate matter from kiln gases.

  12. Chewing tobacco manufacture.

  13. Coke ovens.

  14. Cotton gins or oil mills.

  15. Crematories.

  16. Creosote treatment or manufacture.

  17. Disinfectant manufacture.

  18. Distillation of coal, wood or tar.

  19. Dye-stuffs manufacture.

  20. Exterminator or insect poison manufacture.

  21. Feed mills.

  22. Forge plants.

  23. Freight classification yards.

  24. Iron, steel, brass or copper foundries or fabrication plants and heavy weight casting.

  25. Lamp black manufacture.

  26. Linoleum or oiled products manufacture.

  27. Ore reduction.

  28. Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacture.

  29. Paper or pulp manufacture.

  30. Petroleum products storage.

  31. Petroleum refining and reclaiming plants, if located more than one thousand three hundred twenty feet from any property classified other than as M-3 zone or U zone.

  32. Pickle manufacture.

  33. Plastic manufacture.

  34. Potash works.

  35. Quarry or stone mills, provided operations are not conducted closer than fifty feet to any public street or highway.

  36. Railroad roundhouses and repair shops.

  37. Rock, sand and gravel excavating, crushing and distribution, provided such operations are not conducted closer than fifty feet to any public street or highway.

  38. Rolling mills.

  39. Rubber or gutta percha manufacture.

  40. Sauerkraut manufacture.

  41. Saw mills.

  42. Soap manufacture.

  43. Sodium compounds manufacture.

  44. Starch manufacture.

  45. Stove or shoe polish manufacture.

  46. Tar roofing or waterproofing or other tar products manufacture.

  47. Wool pulling or scouring.

C. Any of the following uses provided that practical technological improvements subject to the approval of the planning commission are employed for the control of fumes, odors, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration or other conditions which are or may be detrimental to the public health, safety, convenience or general welfare of the community:

  1. Acid manufacture.

  2. Ammunition manufacture.

  3. Except as provided in subdivision 11 of subsection B of this section, cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture.

  4. Chemical manufacture.

  5. Curing, tanning and storage of raw hides or skins.

  6. Distillation of bones.

  7. Drop forge industries manufacturing forgings with power hammers.

  8. Explosives, manufacture or storage.

  9. Fat rendering.

  10. Fertilizer manufacture.

  11. Garbage, offal or dead animal reduction or dumping.

  12. Gas manufacture.

  13. Gelatin or size manufacture.

  14. Glass manufacture.

  15. Glucose or dextrine manufacture.

  16. Glue manufacture.

  17. Nonmineral oil extraction plants.

  18. Petroleum refining and reclaiming plants, if located within one thousand three hundred twenty feet from any property classified other than as an M-3 zone or U zone.

  19. Smelting of tin, copper, zinc or iron ores.

D. The accessory buildings and structures necessary to such use located on the same lot or parcel of land.

E. Oil and gas drilling and production shall be permitted according to the provisions of Section 17.140.050.

F. Additional uses may be permitted by the planning commission according to the provisions of Sections 17.152.020 and 17.152.030.

G. Commercial cannabis activity as established by Chapter 19.04, Commercial Cannabis Activity within Title 19, Marijuana.

(Ord. 109 § 23.01, 1969)

(Ord. No. 0001-2023, § 5, 2-23-23)

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17.92.030 - Building height.

Thirteen stories and not to exceed one hundred fifty feet.

(Ord. 109 § 23.02, 1969)

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17.92.040 - Front yard.

A. All buildings shall be located not nearer than forty feet from the centerline of a street. Provided, however, that along any secondary highway, as designated by the city or county's highway plan, a minimum setback of forty-five feet from the centerline of the highway shall be required, and along any major highway, as designated by the city or county's highway plan, a minimum setback of fifty-five feet from the centerline of the highway shall be required.

B. All buildings used exclusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the provisions of the R-4 zone.

(Ord. 109 § 23.03, 1969)

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17.92.050 - Side yard.

None, except all buildings used exclusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the provisions of the R-4 zone.

(Ord. 109 § 23.04, 1969)

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17.92.060 - Area requirements.

Six thousand square feet minimum lot area.

(Ord. 109 § 23.05, 1969)

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17.92.070 - Rear yard.

None, except all buildings used exclusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the provisions of the R-4 zone.

(Ord. 109 § 23.06, 1969)

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17.92.080 - Distance between buildings on same lot.

None, except all buildings used exclusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the provisions of the R-4 zone.

(Ord. 109 § 23.07, 1969)

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