Coachella City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 17
32 - M-H HEAVY INDUSTRIAL ZONE
17.32.010 - Intent and purpose.
This zone is intended to provide for and encourage the orderly development of heavy industrial areas within the community. Such areas are vital to the community's health and well-being and must be protected from intrusion by dwellings and inharmonious commercial uses. Such areas are vital to the community's economic health and well-being by providing employment and an important revenue source for the city. The provisions of this zone are intended to provide an industrial environment which will be compatible with the inherent characteristics of heavy industry, and also to provide proper safeguards and appropriate transition for surrounding land uses.
(Prior code § 055.01)
(Ord. No. 1204, § 3(Exh. A.1), 7-26-23)
17.32.020 - Permitted uses.
The following uses are permitted in the M-H (Heavy Industrial) zone subject to all provisions of this chapter.
A.
Primary Uses.
1.
All uses permitted by Section 17.30.020 of the M-S (Manufacturing Service) zone, except emergency shelters.
2.
Blacksmith shop.
3.
Cotton gins, oil mills, vegetable oil plants.
4.
Exterminating or disinfecting service firm.
5.
Glass manufacture.
6.
Hemp products manufacture.
7.
Heavy metals fabrication.
8.
Oil cloth or linoleum manufacture.
9.
Oil Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine, or varnish manufacture.
10.
Paper, pulp manufacture.
11.
Plastic manufacture.
12.
Planing mills.
13.
Poultry dressing and packaging.
14.
Public Utility Facilities (City-initiated).
15.
Railroad yards, repair shops.
16.
Salt works.
17.
Slaughterhouses.
18.
Soap manufacture.
19.
Stone monument works.
20.
Wire and wire products manufacture.
B.
Accessory Uses. The following buildings, structures and uses are permitted when clearly incidental and accessory to a primary permitted use:
1.
Detached dwelling, where used by a proprietor, manager, or custodian or a use permitted within this zone.
2.
Retail distribution of products produced on the premises where not the primary retail outlet for said products.
3.
Signs as permitted in the M-S (Manufacturing Service) zone.
4.
Storage of equipment, materials, finished products, or refuse basic to operations of a permitted use.
5.
Other accessory uses customarily appurtenant to a primary permitted use.
C.
Conditional Uses. The following uses may be permitted in the M-H (Heavy Industrial) zone subject to obtaining a conditional use permit pursuant to Chapter 17.74.
1.
Acid manufacture.
2.
Animal (including fish) products manufacture or processing.
3.
Asphalt or asphaltic concrete manufacturing plants.
4.
Borrow pits.
5.
Brick yards.
6.
Breweries and alcoholic beverage manufacture.
7.
Bulk distributing stations—Hazardous materials.
8.
Cement block, concrete block manufacture, storage yards.
9.
Concrete ready-mix plants.
10.
Community recycling collection facilities, pursuant to Chapter 17.90.
11.
Creosote manufacture.
12.
Distillation of alcohol, bones, coal, coal tar, coke, wood.
13.
Drop forge industries.
14.
Explosives or fireworks manufacture.
15.
Feed yards, feed mills.
16.
Foundry.
17.
Gas manufacture, including, but not limited to chlorine and other noxious gases.
18.
Glue manufacture.
19.
Livestock sales and feed yards.
20.
Lamp black manufacture.
21.
Prison, jail, correctional facility, or detention facility.
22.
Quarries.
23.
Rock crushing operations.
24.
Smelting operations.
25.
Tannery.
26.
Tar distillation or tar products manufacture.
27.
Transfer station, small scale, pursuant to Chapter 17.90.
28.
Winery.
29.
Indoor commercial cultivation, manufacturing, testing laboratory, distribution, non-retail microbusiness, non-storefront cannabis retailers, and non-storefront retail microbusinesses, pursuant to Chapters 17.84 and 17.85. The conditional uses allowed in this subsection shall not be interpreted to include any primary uses listed in Section 17.32.020(A).
30.
Recreational Vehicle Storage such that standalone uses shall not exceed fifteen (15) percent of the M-H Zone.
31.
All conditional uses permitted by Section 17.30.020 of the M-S (Manufacturing Service) zone.
D.
Industrial-Related Uses. Certain nonindustrial uses are functionally related to industrial areas. The following uses are permitted only where intended to serve industrial areas and employees.
1.
Restaurants and coffee shops.
2.
Industrial hospital or clinics.
3.
Industrial training center.
E.
Consistency with the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan.
1.
If a project is located in the Jacqueline Cochran Airport Compatibility zones, densities, intensities, and prohibited uses shall be consistent with criteria in the airport land use compatibility plan for the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport, including applicable Countywide criteria as may exist at the time of project review.
(Prior code § 055.02)
(Ord. No. 1051, § 3, 5-22-13; Ord. No. 1065, § 3, 6-11-14; Ord. No. 1161, § 6, 5-27-20; Ord. No. 1195, § 7, 7-27-22; Ord. No. 1204, § 3(Exh. A.1), 7-26-23)