The purpose of the M district is to designate areas appropriate for a wide variety of light industrial uses. Additionally, the purpose is to provide opportunities for mixed residential/industrial uses. The intent is to insure the compatibility of industrial uses with other uses in the city through performance standards. The intent of the mixed residential/industrial use is to encourage rehabilitation of important existing housing stock or the production of affordable housing and to assist the city in maintaining an appropriate balance between jobs and housing while assuring that industrial use is the primary use within the zone. Mixed residential/industrial use will not be permitted unless such use is found to be compatible with existing and anticipated use in the surrounding area.

(Ord. 586 § 3, 2003: Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

The following processes shall govern development of such units in the M district, in accordance with Chapter 14.72 (Accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units):

1.

Accessory dwelling units, outside the coastal zone appeals jurisdiction, shall be subject to approval of an administrative coastal development permit.

2.

Accessory dwelling units, within the coastal zone appeals jurisdiction, shall be subject to approval of an administrative coastal development permit, appealable to the California Coastal Commission as provided in Chapter 14.78 (Appeals).

3.

Junior accessory dwelling units shall be subject to issuance of a building permit.

(Ord. 758, § 4, 1-23-2023)

Prior to the issuance of any permit for development on any property zoned or to be rezoned to general industry (M), a development plan shall be submitted, processed and approved as provided in Chapter 14.68.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Permitted uses in the M district subject to development plan approval are as follows:

1.

All uses permitted in the industrial/research park district with the exception of commercial cannabis activities, all of which are expressly prohibited in the M district;

2.

Agricultural products packing and processing;

3.

Building materials manufacturing plant, including concrete mixing plant;

4.

Carpenter and cabinet shop, furniture repair and upholstery;

5.

Small animal hospital;

6.

Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors;

7.

Fuel yard;

8.

Freighting or trucking yard of terminal;

9.

Public works, public service or utility service yard or major electrical receiving or transforming station;

10.

Small boat building;

11.

Aquaculture;

The following uses (12 through 24) shall be permitted only if conducted within a completely enclosed building:

12.

The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products but excluding such products as fish, meat, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast and the rendering or refining of fats and oils;

13.

The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, or semiprecious metals or stone, shell, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarns, and paint not employing a boiling process;

14.

The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;

15.

The manufacture and maintenance of electrical and neon signs, commercial advertising structures, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment, cornices, eaves, and the like;

16.

Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps;

17.

Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender works, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping and battery manufacturing;

18.

Blacksmith shop and machine shop excluding punch presses over twenty tons rated capacity, drop hammers, and automatic screw machines;

19.

Foundry casting lightweight nonferrous metal not causing noxious fumes or odors;

20.

Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs including the manufacture of small parts, only, such as coils, condensers, transformers, crystalholders, and the like;

21.

Laboratories: experimental, photo or motion picture, film or testing;

22.

Storage warehouses;

23.

Buildings, structures, and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses;

24.

Any other light industrial use, building or structure which, in the opinion of the planning commission is of similar character to those enumerated in this district and is not injurious to the health, safety or welfare of the neighborhood because of noise, odor, dust, smoke, vibration, danger to life and property or other similar causes.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

(Ord. No. 726, § 6, 3-25-2019)

Adult-oriented businesses shall be permitted subject to the requirements of Chapter 14.71, Ord. 542 § 2, 1998.

(Ord. 544 § 1, 1998)

Uses permitted in the M district subject to conditional use permit are as follows:

1.

Oil and gas processing facilities, including storage tanks and truck terminals;

2.

Automobile dismantling establishment and junkyard when conducted within an area enclosed by a solid wall, fence, or hedge approved by the planning commission and not less than six feet in height;

3.

As provided in Chapter 14.62.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Front, Side and Rear. No building or structure shall be located closer than one-half the building height, but in no case less than five feet to the front and side property lines. For corner lots, the side yard along the side street shall conform to the front yard provisions of this district.

Rear Yards. 1. For any parcel that has a rear boundary which abuts the rear boundary of a lot zoned residential or commercial, the required rear yard setback shall be not less than two times the height of the building.

2.

No rear yard setback shall be required for buildings located on a lot having a rear boundary common to the rear boundary of any parcel zoned for industrial use.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Parking regulations for the M District are as provided in Chapter 14.54.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

The minimum distance between buildings or structures shall be ten feet.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

No parcel shall be created less than seven thousand-square feet in size.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Buildings and structures shall not occupy more than fifty percent of the net area of the parcel.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

No building or structure shall exceed a height of thirty feet.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

1.

Not less than twenty percent of the net area shall be landscaped where feasible; in no case shall less than ten percent of the net area be landscaped. All landscaping shall be in conformance with the approved development plan.

2.

All ends of parking lanes shall have landscaped islands.

3.

The front yard setback shall be landscaped.

4.

Where any portion of a parcel subject to the requirements of this district abuts a parcel in a residential or commercial district, the first ten feet of the setback area shall be landscaped and a masonry wall not less than six feet in height shall be provided.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

1.

Open storage of equipment and materials shall be permitted only in areas screened from view of surrounding lots, such screening to be approved by the planning commission.

2.

Signs shall be limited as provided in Chapter 14.58 except that the planning commission may approve special oversize signs identifying the property or occupancy of property.

3.

The volume of sound measured during calm air conditions inherently and recurrently generated by or resulting from any use, other than motor vehicles, operated on any lot shall not be perceptible without instruments at any point along the boundary of or outside of the lot upon which such use is located.

4.

No offensive odors or fumes, noxious gases, heat glare or radiation generated by or resulting from any use, other than motor vehicles or lighting fixtures, operated on any lot shall be detectable at any point along the boundary of or outside of the lot upon which such use is located.

5.

Except for the heating of buildings or the occasional burning of household-type wastes, there shall be no smoke or dust generated by or resulting from any use, other than motor vehicles, located upon the lot.

6.

No beam of exterior lighting used for the purpose of illuminating buildings or structures shall be directed toward adjacent residential areas without intermediate obstruction.

7.

No operation involved in the manufacture, compounding, assembling, processing or treatment of any product, and no material stored on property within the M-RP district, shall be injurious to the health, safety or welfare of persons residing or working in the neighborhood by reason of danger to life or property.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)