§ 36-14. "M-1" Light Industrial.

The regulations set out in this section shall apply in all M-1 Districts and shall be subject to the provisions of § 36-18.

This district is intended to provide space for the types of manufacturing, wholesale, and storage activities that will not be detrimental to activities in adjacent commercial or residential neighborhoods by reason of, but not limited to excessive noise, smoke, odor, dust, vibrations, fumes, glare, or gas.

Buildings, structures, and land shall be used, and buildings and structures shall be erected, structurally altered, or enlarged in the M-1 Districts, only for the following uses subject to the property development standards in § 36-14.6.

• A. Professional offices, communications equipment buildings, community center, social hall, clubhouse, and service establishments.

• B. School, church, hospital, and dwellings; provided, that they are accessory to and incidental to and located upon the same property as a commercial or industrial use permitted in this district.

• C. Armature winding, battery rebuilding, bottling plant, brewery, distributing plant, draying, freighting, trucking, neon sign manufacturing, flour mill, canning and storage (except lard, pickles, sauerkraut, sausage and vinegar), clothing manufacture, ice plant, lumber and building materials, (excluding concrete mixing), prefabricated buildings, planning mill (excluding burning), paint mixing, pumping plant, plastic processing, stone monument sales and cutting, utility service yard and substations, poultry and rabbit processing, rubber processing, shoe manufacture, small tile manufacture (wall and floor), transfer truck and car repair, bakery, manufacture of candy, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toilet soap and toiletries, manufacture or assembly of previously prepared materials of bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur glass, hair, horn, rubber, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stone, contractors' material yards, shell straw, textiles,

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City of Oakdale, CA § 36-14.3

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§ 36-14.6

tobacco, wood, wool, yarn and paint, manufacture of neon signs, billboards, advertising structures, sheet metal products, venetian blinds, window shades and awnings, manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, rubber and metal stamps, cameras and photographic equipment, business machines and household equipment, printing establishments.

• D. Any other light industrial establishment determined by Planning Commission resolution to be consistent with the purpose of this section and which will not impair the present or potential use of adjacent properties.

Only those accessory uses and accessory buildings customarily appurtenant to a permitted use.

The following uses may be permitted in the M-1 Districts subject to a Use Permit provided for in § 36-20.

• A. Public and quasi-public uses appropriate to serve the M-1 District.

• B. Retail commercial uses, such as restaurants and service stations, appropriate in and necessary to serve the M-1 District.

• C. Caretakers residence, one unit not to exceed twelve hundred (1,200) square feet for industrial uses of one-acre minimum lot area.

• D. Airports.

• E. Any other light industrial establishment determined by the Planning Commission by resolution to be consistent with the purpose of this section and which will not impair the present or potential use of adjacent properties.

• F. Cannabis cultivation business, cannabis manufacturing business, cannabis distribution business, cannabis testing laboratory, and dispensary, as defined in § 37-2.

Permits to establish a cannabis cultivation business, cannabis manufacturing business, cannabis distribution business, cannabis testing laboratory, or dispensary shall be located in the area highlighted on the attached maps.

• G. Mobile Food Vendor, as specified in § 36-29. [Added 8-2-2021 by Ord. No. 1276]

The following property development standards shall apply to all land and buildings in the M-1 Districts.

• A. Lot Area. The lot shall be sufficient to provide the minimum yard, parking requirements as specified in § 36-25, and landscaping requirements as specified in § 36-24.

• B. Setback/Yard Requirements. The following setback/yard requirements shall apply to all uses in the M-1 District:

  1. A minimum of ten (10) feet from the right-of-way line of any street less than sixty-eight (68) feet in width, except as provided for in § 36-18.9 Special Building Lines.

• C. Distance Between Buildings: Minimum requirements of the Uniform Building Code.

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City of Oakdale, CA

OAKDALE CITY CODE

§ 36-14.6

§ 36-15.2

• D. Building Height. No building erected shall have a height greater than seventy (70) feet. Permitted projections above these heights include: ventilating fans or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, flag poles, chimneys, or similar structures approved under Site Plan Review, § 36-19.

• E. Hours of Operation. Business may be conducted on a twenty-four (24) hour a day basis except that fewer hours may be determined by the Planning Commission for those uses provided for in Sections 36-14.3 and 36-14.5 which are subject to a Use Permit provided for in § 36-20.

• F. Site Plan Review. Prior to the issuance of any Building Permit for the erection of any structure on any lot, a Site Plan shall be submitted and considered pursuant to Site Plan Review requirements of § 36-19.

• G. Landscaping and Open Space. All uses, as specified in § 36-24.

• H. Fences, Hedges, Walls, and Screen Plantings. Fences, hedges, walls, and screen plantings shall be erected subject to the provisions of § 36-18. The outside storage of materials, merchandise, supplies, equipment, wastes, incinerations, and sewage disposal shall be enclosed within a chain link with slats, solid wooden or masonry fence not less than six (6) feet in height. Whenever an M-1 Use is proposed to be located adjacent to an R-1, R-2, or R-3 District an eight (8) foot masonry wall shall be constructed along the property line pursuant to § 36-24.

• I. Off-Street Parking Requirements. All uses, as specified in § 36-25.

• J. Off-Street Loading Requirements. All uses, as specified in § 36-25.

• K. Vehicular Access. For all uses, there shall be vehicular access to the off-street parking and loading facilities from a dedicated street.

• L. Signs. For all uses, as specified in § 36-26.

• M. All refuse, garbage and trash bins one-half (1/2) yard or larger shall be behind the building setback line and screened from public view.

  1. Outdoor trash enclosures are required in the L-M District on lots ten thousand (10,000) square feet or larger in area. Trash enclosures subject to public views shall be constructed of split face masonry and solid metal doors, a minimum of six (6) feet in height, with a minimum two (2) foot irrigated and landscaped perimeter around the enclosure (excepting door entries).

2. Trash enclosures not subject to public views shall be enclosed by a nonextruded six (6) inch cement curb, and a six (6) foot high slatted chain link fence and gated doors.