Article III — ZONES, USES AND REQUIREMENTS›Division 11 — INDUSTRIAL ZONES
SEC. 16-163. INDUSTRIAL LAND USES BY ZONE: INDUSTRIAL LAND USE MATRIX.
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The allowed land uses in the industrial zoning districts are identified in the following table.
Industrial Land Use Matrix
Key:
Blank: Not Allowed P: Permitted Use (Requires a Zone Clearance) SUP: Special Use Permit DDR: Development Design Review Permit
| Key: Blank: Not Allowed P: Permitted Use (Requires a Zone Clearance) SUP: Special Use Permit DDR: Development Design Review Permit |
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| Land Use | Zone District | |||||
| CM | BRP | M-L | M-1 | M-2 | Notes | |
| Administrative, executive, and/or corporate offices which are a part of a predominantly industrial operation, including governmental offices and facilities |
P | P | P | P | P | |
| Administrative, financial, professional, medical, and general office services |
P | P | SUP | |||
| Adult businesses, except adult motels | P | P | P | P | Refer to section 16-337 |
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| Adult day care facilities | P | P | ||||
| Adult motels | P | Refer to section 16-336 |
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| Agricultural and construction vehicle sales with incidental repair and service |
SUP | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Agricultural, limited to growing of crops | P | P | P | P | P | |
| Aircraft modification, storage, repair, and maintenance |
P | P | ||||
| Aircraft sales | P | P | P | P | ||
| Alcohol sales: on-site, off-site, and wine tasting |
SUP | SUP | SUP | SUP | ||
| Ambulance base facilities | P | P | P | P | P | |
| Appliance repairs | P | P | P | |||
| Asphalt or concrete manufacture or refining | DDR | |||||
| Assembly or repair of small electrical and electronic equipment |
P | P | P | |||
| Assisted living residential facility | SUP | |||||
| Auction houses | P | P | P | P | P | |
| Boat building and repair | P | P | ||||
| Boiler repair and maintenance | P | P | ||||
| Book binding | P | P | P | P | P | |
| Bottling/canning plants | P | P | P | |||
| Breweries, microbrew (less than 60,000 barrels). A SUP is required if including tasting rooms |
DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Breweries, craft (more than 60,000 barrels, less than 2 million barrels). A SUP is required if including tasting rooms |
DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Breweries, large (more than 2 million barrels) |
DDR | DDR | ||||
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| Brick, tile, or terra cotta manufacture | DDR | DDR | ||||
| Business furniture, supplies, and equipment sales |
P | P | P | |||
| Cabinet or carpenter shops | P | P | P | P | ||
| Cafeterias accessory to permitted uses for the convenience of persons employed on the premises |
P | P | P | P | ||
| Carpet, rug, and dry-cleaning plants | P | P | P | P | ||
| Cement, glass, lime, gypsum, or plaster manufacture |
DDR | |||||
| Ceramic products | P | P | P | P | ||
| Children s day care facility serving more than 15 children |
SUP | SUP | ||||
| Churches | SUP | SUP | SUP | SUP | SUP | Refer to section 16-162(B) |
| Coffee shops, cafes | P | P | DDR | DDR | DDR | |
| Cold storage facilities including agricultural freezers and ice production and sales |
P | P | P | |||
| Commercial and retail uses | P | DDR | DDR | DDR | Refer to section 16-171 |
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| Commercial Cannabis Activities | ||||||
| Cultivation | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | Refer to sections 11-473 and 16- 173 |
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| Distribution | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | Refer to sections 11-473 and 16- 173 |
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| Manufacturing | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | Refer to sections 11-473 and 16- 173 |
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| Retail | SUP | Refer to sections 11-473 and 16- 173 |
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| Testing | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | Refer to sections 11-473 and 16- 173 |
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| Commercial recreational and entertainment uses, such as batting cages, gymnasiums, boxing gyms, escape rooms, bowling alleys, skating rinks, and similar recreational uses as determined by the planning manager |
DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Computer and business machine sales and service |
P | P | P | |||
| Convenience markets and drugstores | P | DDR | ||||
| Corporate training and professional development facilities including ancillary outdoor activities |
P | P | P | P | P | |
| Day care facilities accessory to industrial uses | DDR | DDR | DDR | |||
| Day care facilities (over 12 children) as a principal use |
DDR | DDR | ||||
| Distribution, warehousing, and wholesaling | P | P | P | P | P | |
| Drive-through services | SUP | SUP | SUP | |||
| Drop forge industries | DDR | |||||
| Dwelling unit, one per establishment, for security or management when located on the premises where such person is employed in such capacity and accessory to an industrial use |
DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Electric motor rebuilding | P | P | P | P | ||
| Electrical and lighting supply | P | P | ||||
| Electronic and computer repair | P | P | P | |||
| Emergency shelter for families | SUP | P | ||||
| Emergency shelter, permanent | SUP | P | ||||
| Emergency shelter, temporary | SUP | P | ||||
| Employment agencies | P | P | ||||
| Energy generation, distribution, storage, and support facilities, including electrical and gas utilities |
SUP | SUP | SUP | SUP | DDR | |
| Explosives, manufacture or storage | DDR | |||||
| Farmworker housing | SUP | P | P | P | ||
| Feed sales | P | P | P | |||
| Fertilizer manufacture | DDR | |||||
| Firearm and ammunition sales | SUP | Refer to Chapter 16, |
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| Fish smoking, processing, curing, or canning | DDR | DDR | ||||
| Florists | P | P | ||||
| Freight classification yard, including truck and bus storage and maintenance |
DDR | P | ||||
| Furniture manufacture and assembly | P | P | P | P | ||
| Furniture upholstery shops | P | P | P | |||
| Garbage, offal, or dead animal reduction or dumping |
P | |||||
| Garment manufacturing | P | P | P | P |
| Key: Blank: Not Allowed P: Permitted Use (Requires a Zone Clearance) SUP: Special Use Permit DDR: Development Design Review Permit |
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| Gas bulk storage, manufacturing, and distribution of flammable liquids and all gases |
DDR | |||||
| General office, including legal, professional, medical, consulting, or similar |
P | P | ||||
| Indoor firearm range | SUP | Refer to Chapter 16, Division 20 |
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| Iron, steel, brass, or copper foundry or fabrication plant |
SUP | DDR | ||||
| Kennels and animal boarding | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Kennel day care | P | P | P | P | ||
| Laboratories, research only | P | P | ||||
| Laundry, commercial | P | P | P | P | ||
| Light metal fabrication (for example, sheet metal, wrought iron, and the like) |
P | P | P | P | ||
| Lumber yards with incidental sales of building and hardware supplies (outside storage) |
SUP | SUP | P | |||
| Machine shops | P | P | P | P | ||
| Manufacture and assembly of electrical and electronic instruments, devices, and components |
P | P | P | P | P | |
| Manufacturing and maintenance of electric neon signs |
P | P | P | P | ||
| Manufacturing, compounding assembly, or treatment of articles or merchandise from prepared materials such as, but not limited to, canvas, cloth, stones, wood products, and leather |
P | P | P | |||
| Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of food products such as, but not limited to, bakery, dairy, fruits and vegetables, and honey |
P | P | P | |||
| Marine equipment sales with incidental repair and service |
P | P | P | P | ||
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| Medical product sales | P | P | P | |||
| Medical: hospitals and medical centers | SUP | |||||
| Metals recycling and storage, including sales | SUP | DDR | ||||
| Mini-warehouses and self-storage facilities | SUP | SUP | SUP | SUP | Refer to Resolution No. 6446 |
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| Mobile home sales and display | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Motels, hotels, and convention facilities | SUP | SUP | ||||
| Multifamily Residential uses up to 30 dwelling units per acre on parcels identified in the AHD additive zone, subject to the provisions in section 16-420 |
SUP | |||||
| Off-site non-accessory signs or billboards | SUP | Refer to section 16-608(G) |
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| Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture | P | |||||
| Outdoor storage or assembly as a primary use | SUP | |||||
| Outdoor storage, incidental/accessory to uses otherwise permitted |
DDR | DDR | DDR | |||
| Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine, and varnish manufacture |
DDR | |||||
| Paper and pulp manufacture | DDR | |||||
| Pawnshops | SUP | |||||
| Petroleum bulk plants and distribution | SUP | DDR | ||||
| Petroleum refining | DDR | |||||
| Photographic studios and services | P | P | P | |||
| Planning mills | SUP | DDR | ||||
| Plastic manufacture | P | P | ||||
| Plumbing supply | P | P | P | |||
| Printing shop, lithographing, photocopying, blueprinting, and publishing |
P | P | P | P | P | |
| Product assembly plants and production facilities primarily engaged in final or partial assembling of packaging of premanufactured, treated, or fabricated components, materials, or products |
P | P | P | P | P | |
| Public service uses - communications, fire and police, water, and other governmental or public facilities |
DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | |
| Radio or television broadcasting station | P | P | P | P | P | |
| Railroad support services | SUP | DDR | ||||
| Recycling collection: collection recycling facility for the acceptance of materials from the public including a bulk or single-feed reverse vending machine, a kiosk unit, or a permanent building |
DDR | DDR | ||||
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| Recycling mobile unit: mobile recycling unit used for the collection of recycled materials including the bins, boxes, or containers for the collection of recyclable materials |
DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Recycling processing facility: processing facility for ferrous and non-ferrous materials including the preparation of material for efficient shipment which includes baling, briquetting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, and re- manufacturing. Outdoor bin storage allowed for the collection of recycled materials |
SUP | SUP | ||||
| Refrigeration and air conditioning repair and service |
P | P | P | P | ||
| Research and development, experimental or developmental laboratories |
P | P | P | P | ||
| Research, development, and clinical laboratories and uses including associated incidental and outpatient clinics |
P | |||||
| Restaurants and delicatessens | P | P | P | DDR | DDR | |
| Rock crusher or distribution of rock, sand, or gravel |
DDR | |||||
| Sale of building and hardware supplies within a building |
P | P | P | P |
| Key: Blank: Not Allowed P: Permitted Use (Requires a Zone Clearance) SUP: Special Use Permit DDR: Development Design Review Permit |
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| Specialized commercial retail centers oriented toward major transportation elements such as freeways, expressways, and other major transportation corridors. Specialized commercial uses include promotional, discount, factory outlet, and off-price shopping centers, as well as centers that are tourist- oriented or oriented to other specialized markets. Specialized commercial uses may also include general commercial uses in special or unique settings |
SUP | |||||
| Stationery and office supplies | P | P | ||||
| Supportive housing | SUP | |||||
| Taxidermist | P | P | P | |||
| Textiles manufacturing | P | P | P | |||
| Trade schools, public and private schools and colleges, dance, and performing arts studios |
P | P | DDR | |||
| Transitional housing | SUP | |||||
| Vehicle assembly | SUP | DDR | ||||
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| Vehicle and equipment dismantling and recycling, including sale of parts and vehicles |
SUP | |||||
| Vehicle rental agencies | DDR | DDR | DDR | |||
| Vehicle repair, including engine overhaul, body and fender work, transmission, radiator repair, painting, and upholstering |
P | P | P | P | ||
| Vehicle service stations | SUP | SUP | SUP | SUP | DDR | |
| Vehicle storage | SUP | SUP | ||||
| Veterinarians with on-site kennels | DDR | DDR | DDR | DDR | ||
| Veterinarians with no on-site kennels | P | P | P | P | ||
| Welding shops | P | P | P | |||
| Wine production facility | SUP | P | P | |||
| Wine tasting with or without cafes | SUP | SUP | SUP | |||
(Ord. No. 2958, 2961, 2985, 3001, 3032, 3069)
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- Article I — GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Article II — DEFINITIONS
▸Article III — ZONES, USES AND REQUIREMENTS
Overview- Division 1 — GENERALLY
- Division 2 — RESIDENTIAL ZONES
- Division 4 — [RESERVED]
- Division 7 — COMMERCIAL ZONES
- Division 10 — DOWNTOWN ZONES
▸Division 11 — INDUSTRIAL ZONES
Overview- SEC. 16-160. PURPOSE AND INTENT.
- SEC. 16-161. PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR INDUSTRIAL USES.
- SEC. 16-162. NON-INDUSTRIAL USES.
- SEC. 16-163. INDUSTRIAL LAND USES BY ZONE: INDUSTRIAL LAND USE…
- SEC. 16-164. DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
- SEC. 16-165. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO C-M, BRP, M-L, M…
- SEC. 16-166. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS; GENERAL.
- SEC. 16-167. EXCEPTIONS.
- SEC. 16-168. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS; SPECIFIC.
- SEC. 16-169. INDUSTRIAL ACCESSORY USES: PURPOSE AND INTENT.
- SEC. 16-170. INDUSTRIAL ACCESSORY USES: OFFICE USES.
- SEC. 16-171. INDUSTRIAL ACCESSORY USES: COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL …
- SEC. 16-172. INDUSTRIAL ACCESSORY USES: OUTDOOR USES AND STORA…
- SEC. 16-173. DEVELOPMENT DESIGN REVIEW PERMIT REQUIRED FOR SPE…
- Division 12 — (RESERVED)
- Division 13 — (RESERVED)
- Division 14 — (RESERVED)
- Division 15 — (RESERVED)
- Division 16 — C-R COMMUNITY RESERVE ZONE
- Division 17 — PLANNED DEVELOPMENT (ADDITIVE) ZONE
- Division 18 — LOT SIZE ADDITIVE
- Division 19 — AIRPORT HAZARD OVERLAY ZONE
- Article IV — STANDARDS FOR ALL ZONES
- Article V — SPECIFIC USE REQUIREMENTS
- Article VI — NONCONFORMING USES
- Article VII — PERMIT PROCEDURES
- Article VIII — CHANGE OF BOUNDARIES AND USES
- Article IX — ADVERTISING SIGNS
- Article X — OFF-STREET PARKING
- Article XI — SHORT-TERM RENTAL UNITS