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Title 20 — ZONING ORDINANCE›Division II — MENDOCINO COUNTY COASTAL ZONING CODE
Mendocino County Municipal Code Ch. 20.328 Coastal Industrial Use Types
Mendocino County Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Mendocino County
Cite as: Mendocino County Municipal Code Chapter 20.328 · Text as of 2026-10-04
Sec. 20.328.005 - General Description of Industrial Use Types.¶
On-site production or processing of goods by methods not agricultural or extractive in nature. They also include certain uses accessory to the above, as specified in Chapter 20.456 (Accessory Use Regulations).
(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)
Sec. 20.328.010 - Coastal-Related Industrial.¶
The coastal-related use type includes coastal-related industrial uses, including but not limited to fish waste processing and fish processing of products for other than human consumption.
(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)
Sec. 20.328.015 - Coastal-Dependent Industrial.¶
Coastal-dependent industrial uses require a maintained navigable channel to function, including, for example: public or private docks, water-borne commercial carrier import and export operations, ship/boat building and repair, commercial fishing facilities, including berthing and fish receiving, off-boat sales and fish processing when product is for human consumption (fish waste processing and fish processing of products for other than human consumption are permitted under the coastal-related use type), and aquaculture support facilities. Offshore mining, dredging, mineral or petroleum extraction processes, or the stockpiling or transfer of relative material for, are not included.
(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)
Sec. 20.328.020 - Custom Manufacturing: Light Industrial.¶
Establishments primarily engaged in the on-site production of individually crafted goods using hand tools or mechanical equipment typical of the types or specifications found in a home shop, or using equipment or processes which do not create noise, dust, fumes, visual impacts, or electrical or water use in excess of home shop or hobby equipment, and which may include incidental on-site sales of those goods to retail consumers. Typical uses include ceramic studios, candlemaking shops, custom jewelry manufacturing, woodworking shops, printing shops, custom textile manufacturing or light assembly of components manufactured off-premises.
(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991; Ord. No. 4149 (part), adopted 2005)
Sec. 20.328.025 - General Industrial.¶
Industrial plants primarily engaged in manufacturing, compounding, processing, assembling, packaging, treatment, fabrication or recycling of materials and products. Included are white metal and appliance recycling and processing and aggregate processing plants such as crushing, screening, washing and mixing plants.
(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)
Sec. 20.328.030 - Heavy Industrial.¶
All other industrial plants or other uses not included within the General Industrial Use Type involving the compounding of radioactive materials or manufacturing of explosives.
(Ord. No. 3785 (part), adopted 1991)
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