2.10. INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS — Sacramento County Zoning Code

2.10.1. General Purpose ¶

The Industrial zoning districts established in this Chapter are designed to promote and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare. In addition to the following general purposes for commercial zoning districts, the specific purpose of each commercial zoning district is established in Section 2.10.2.

To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations to meet the County’s present and future needs for all types of industrial and related activities, with due allowance for the need of a choice of sites.
To provide, as far as possible, that such space will be available for use for industrial and related activities, and to protect residential, agricultural, and other nonindustrial uses by separating them from industrial activities and by prohibiting the use of such space for residential or other nonindustrial activities.
To encourage industrial development that is free from danger of fire, explosions, toxic and noxious matter, offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, heat, glare, and other objectionable influences, by permitting such development in areas where this Code restricts the emission of such objectionable influences.
To protect adjacent residential, commercial, and agricultural areas, and to protect the labor force in other establishments engaged in less offensive industrial activities by restricting industrial activities that produce objectionable influences to those limited areas of the County that are appropriate therefor.
To protect industrial and related development against congestion by limiting the bulk of buildings and other structures in relation to the land around them, and to one another, and by providing off-street parking and loading facilities associated with such activities.
To promote the most desirable use of land and sustainable development in accord with the General Plan of the County, to promote the stability of industrial and related activity, and to strengthen the economic base of the County, by conserving the value of land suited for industrial activities, and to protect the County’s tax revenues.
To further encourage industrial activity, and thereby enhance the economic base of the County by limiting the intrusion of nonindustrial or unrelated activities into areas set aside by this Code for industrial purposes.
To incorporate active transportation and safety into on-site circulation and parking lots, reflecting the need for mixing and separating of modes (i.e. trucks, autos, transit, pedestrians and bicyclists); and enhance pedestrian linkages to other buildings, transit and parking areas.

To provide attractive landscaping that contributes to human health, image, pedestrian safety, access, and comfort.

2.10.2. Table of Industrial Zoning Districts ¶

TABLE 2.8 TABLE OF INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS

Name of	Abbreviation	Zoning District Summary	Purpose
Zoning
District
Industrial-	MP	Requires a minimum lot	To provide for well-designed and
Office		area of 15,000 square feet.	controlled groupings of research, service,
Park		Prior to any construction in	and light industrial uses within an area
		the MP zone, a site plan	containing visual and operational
		must be approved by the	amenities. This zoning district is intended
		Planning Director. The	to provide a park-like, nuisance free
		submittal requirements for	environment in an industrial office
		site plan review shall be as	development.
		indicated in the User
		Guide.
Light	M-1	Requires a minimum lot	To provide for development of industrial
Industrial		size of 6,000 square feet	uses that include fabrication,
		and many of the uses are	manufacturing, assembly, or processing of
		required to be carried out	materials that for the most part are already
		completely within an	in processed form and that do not in their
		enclosed building or	operation create smoke, gas, odor, dust,
		behind an enclosed solid	sound, or other objectionable influences
		wall or fenced area.	that might be obnoxious to persons
			conducting business or residing in this or
			any other zoning district; and land uses
			related to or compatible with the permitted
			uses.
Heavy	M-2	Provides for more	To provide for the development of uses
Industrial		objectionable industrial	that include fabrication, manufacturing,
		uses; requires a minimum	assembly, or processing of raw materials

	Name of Zoning District Abbreviation Zoning District Summary Purpose lot size of 20,000 square feet. and that may in their maintenance, assembly, manufacture, or plant operation create smoke, gas, odor, dust, sound, or other objectionable influences that might be obnoxious to persons conducting business or residing in this or any other zoning district. Last updated: Sep 19, 2024

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