The purpose and intent of the M-CD district is to provide for certain energy and industrial uses that require a site on or adjacent to the sea in order to be able to function at all, while providing standards and conditions that will ensure that environmental damage will be avoided or minimized to the maximum extent feasible.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Prior to the issuance of any permits for development on property zoned or to be rezoned to coastal-dependent industry, a development plan shall be submitted, processed, and approved as provided in Chapter 14.68.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Uses permitted in the M-CD district subject to development plan approval are as follows:

1.

Onshore facilities necessary for the exploration, development, production and/or transportation of offshore oil and gas resources including:

a.

Pipelines and any necessary equipment, buildings, apparatus or appurtenances incidental thereto;

b.

Structures, equipment or facilities necessary and incidental to dehydration and/or separation of oil, gas, condensate and other liquid products from gas or water, obtained from an offshore hydrocarbon area, for the purpose of shipping and transporting, recycling, repressurizing, or reinjection of the offshore oil, gas, condensate and/or water for underground disposal in connection with enhanced recovery operations in an offshore producing oil and gas field;

c.

Staging areas and piers established for shipping equipment, supplies and personnel to offshore sites during offshore exploratory and development drilling;

d.

Pipeline installation service bases and pipe coating yards;

2.

Marine terminals required for waterborne shipments of crude oil or petroleum products including a berthing system for vessels, loading/unloading equipment, storage tanks, terminal control and safety equipment, and navigational facilities;

3.

Aquaculture, including fish hatcheries;

4.

Oil spill and cleanup facilities including central office space and vehicles for the storage of floating oil/water separators, pumps, generators, hosing, assorted absorbent materials, steam cleaners, storage tanks, fuel tanks, and other beach and wildlife cleanup equipment;

5.

Structures, equipment or facilities used in the exploration, development or production of oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances from an onshore oil and gas field, or any appurtenances necessary thereto including:

a.

Exploratory oil and gas drilling, including any necessary equipment, apparatus, buildings or appurtenances incidental thereto;

b.

Drilling, redrilling or reworking of production oil and gas wells;

c.

Structures, equipment or facilities necessary and incidental to dehydration and/or separation of oil, gas condensate and other liquid products from gas or water, obtained from an onshore hydrocarbon area, for the purpose of shipping and transporting, recycling, repressurizing, or reinjection of said onshore oil, gas, condensate and/or water for underground disposal in connection with enhanced recovery operations in an onshore oil and gas field;

d.

Injection wells, necessary for enhanced oil recovery or disposal of production wastes;

e.

Equipment necessary for enhanced oil recovery;

f.

Gathering and transmission lines for oil and gas;

g.

Access roads.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Uses permitted in the M-CD district with the conditional use permit are as follows:

1.

Caretaker dwellings for employees of the owner or lessee of the land engaged in a permitted use of the land upon which the dwelling is to be located;

2.

As provided in Chapter 14.62.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

No parcel shall be created having a net lot area of less than one acre.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

1.

Front. No building or structure shall be located closer than eighty (80) feet to the centerline of any street nor closer than fifty (50) feet to the property line, whichever is the greater distance.

2.

Side. No building or structure shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to the side property lines.

3.

Rear. No building or structure shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to the rear property line except that:

a.

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 (2) times the height of the building;

b.

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)

No building or structure shall exceed a height of thirty (30) feet.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

Parking regulations for the M-CD district are as provided in Chapter 14.54.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)

1.

All front property lines shall be landscaped with a minimum of a five (5) foot wide planted area.

2.

Where any portion of a parcel subject to the requirements of this district abuts a parcel in a residential or commercially zoned district, the first ten (10) feet of the setback area shall be landscaped and a masonry wall not less than six (6) feet in height shall be provided.

3.

Outdoor storage areas shall be screened from view of any street by a wall or fence six (6) feet in height. Such wall or fence shall be located not closer than five (5) feet to the street right-of-way line. The space between the wall or fence and the street shall be landscaped. Areas where stored materials or equipment exceed a height of six (6) feet shall be landscaped to provide continuous screening to an approximate height of not less than twenty (20) feet nor more than forty (40) feet when mature.

(Ord. 315 § 1 (part), 1981)