Redding Municipal Code Ch. 18.34 Industrial Districts: "gi" General Industry and "hi" Heavy Industry

The specific purposes of "industrial" districts are to:

A. Promote and preserve the city's industrial areas as significant employment generators.

B. Accommodate a variety of existing, traditional industries ranging from small, employee-intensive businesses to large, capital-intensive businesses, while anticipating new technologies and business-service uses.

C. Preserve areas of the city for the appropriate location of businesses that may have the potential to generate off-site impacts, while providing compatibility in use and form.

D. Identify appropriate standards for reviewing proposals for new development and redevelopment, where appropriate, in industrial areas.

E. Ensure the provision of services and facilities needed to accommodate planned employment densities.

F. Additional purposes of each "industrial" district:

"GI" General Industry. Provide areas for businesses that have limited potential to create significant adverse visual, noise, or other impacts to adjoining public and residential properties. Supporting retail and restaurant uses may be allowed subject to size limits and siting criteria. Uses characterized by substantial outdoor processing and/or storage are not allowed.

"HI" Heavy Industry. Provide areas for the broadest range of industrial uses, including those that are characterized by significant outdoor processing or storage. Supporting retail and restaurant uses may be allowed subject to size limits.

(Ord. 2403 § 7, 2008; Ord. 2343 § 2 (part), 2005: Ord. 2310 § 3 (part), 2003; Ord. 2301 § 3 (Att. A (part)), 2002)

Schedule 18.34.020-A and Section 18.34.030, Permit Requirements for New Development, below prescribe the development regulations for "Industrial" districts.

"P" designates permitted use classifications subject to the provisions of Section 18.34.030.

"L" designates use classifications that are permitted subject to certain limitations prescribed by the additional use regulations contained in this chapter.

"Sd" designates use classifications that are permitted after review and approval of a site development permit by the director.

"S" designates use classifications that are permitted after review and approval of a site development permit by the board of administrative review.

"U" designates use classifications that are permitted after review and approval of a use permit by the planning commission.

Use classifications are defined in Chapter 18.60, Use Classifications. In cases where a specific land use or activity is not defined, the director shall assign the land use or activity to a classification that is substantially similar in character. Use classifications not listed or not substantially similar tothe uses in the schedule below are prohibited. The schedule also notes additional regulations that apply to various uses.

18.34.020-A (Use Regulations - "Industrial Districts")

(Ord. 2343 § 2 (part), 2005: Ord. 2310 § 3 (part), 2003; Ord. 2301 § 3 (Att. A (part)), 2002)

(Ord. No. 2468, § 2, 10-19-2010; Ord. No. 2481, § 5, 11-15-2011; Ord. No. 2541, § 3, 2-16-2016; Ord. No. 2584, § 11, 3-20-2018; Ord. No. 2590, § 7, 8-21-2018; Ord. No. 2606, § 8, 6-18-19; Ord. No. 2611, § 3, 9-17-2019)

A site development permit approved by the BAR shall be required under any of the following circumstances unless otherwise noted:

A. The proposed building(s) or building additions exceed the following:

1. Ten thousand square feet (site development permit—Director);

2. Twenty thousand square feet (site development permit—BAR).

B. Industrial or manufacturing uses which, in the opinion of the director, may be objectionable by reason of producing offensive odor, dust, noise, bright lights, vibration, project scale, or traffic volumes or involving the storage or use of explosives or other dangerous materials.

C. The property has direct access to or frontage on a designated arterial street or frontage road.

D. The property is not located on an improved public street developed to serve industrial traffic.

E. The property abuts a residential district.

(Ord. 2343 § 2 (part), 2005: Ord. 2310 § 3 (part), 2003; Ord. 2301 § 3 (Att. A (part)), 2002)

See Schedule 18.34.040-A below prescribes the development regulations for industrial districts.

Schedule 18.34.040-A: Development Regulations—"Industrial" Districts

(1) Maximum Building Height. Building height may be increased by site development permit. Projections above the maximum height limit are allowed for chimneys, towers, spires, mechanical equipment, and antennas per Section 18.40.080 (Exceptions to height limits) of this title.

(2) Sky Plane Encroachments. Encroachments permitted subject to specified standards as prescribed in Section 18.40.080 (Exceptions to height limits) of this title.

(3) Front Yard Landscape. All unimproved areas within building and parking setbacks shall be landscaped.

(4) Front Yard and Street Side Yard Setbacks. Twenty-five feet for arterial streets and frontage roads. All other street setbacks twenty feet minimum. Nonarterial and frontage road front yard setbacks may be reduced to fifteen feet for parcels less than forty-five thousand square feet.

(Ord. 2343 § 2 (part), 2005: Ord. 2310 § 3 (part), 2003; Ord. 2301 § 3 (Att. A (part)), 2002)