A.   The purposes of the industrial districts (I) are to achieve the following:

      1.   To provide adequate space to meet the needs of modern light and heavy industrial plants, operations, activities and related businesses and activities;

      2.   To protect areas appropriate for industrial use from intrusion by inharmonious uses;

      3.   To expand job creating and revenue generating activities by increasing the overall amount of industrial development in the city;

      4.   To protect residential and commercial properties and to protect nuisance free nonhazardous industrial uses from noise, odor, dust, smoke, vibration, explosion, radiation and other hazardous and objectionable influences incidental to certain industrial uses. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

   A.   Application: The light industrial (IL) district is intended primarily for application to those areas of the city which are designated for light industrial use by the general plan.

   B.   Permitted Uses:

      1.   All uses permitted in the CS service commercial district.

      2.   Light industrial and related uses including:

         a.   Assembly of small electric appliances such as lighting fixtures, irons, fans, toasters and electric toys, refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and similar home appliances.

         b.   Assembly of small electrical equipment such as home motion picture equipment, phonographs and radio and television receivers, but not including electrical machinery.

         c.   Manufacture of scientific, medical, dental and drafting instruments, orthopedic and medical appliances, cameras and photographic equipment except film, electronic equipment, musical instruments, precision instruments, optical goods, watches and clocks.

         d.   Manufacture of ceramic products, such as pottery, figurines and small glazed tile.

         e.   Manufacturing, assembling, compounding, packaging and processing of cosmetics, drugs, pharmaceuticals, toilet soap (not including refining or rendering of fats or oils) and toiletries.

         f.   Manufacture and assembly of electrical supplies such as coils, condensers, crystal holders, insulation, lamps, switches and wire and cable assembly, provided no noxious or offensive fumes or odors are produced.

         g.   Manufacture of cutlery, hardware, hand tools and furniture, die and pattern making, metal stamping and extrusion of small products such as costume jewelry, pins and needles, razorblades, bottle caps, buttons and kitchen utensils.

         h.   Manufacturing, assembling, compounding, packaging and processing of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: asbestos, bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber and synthetic fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paint (not employing a boiling process), paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, rubber and synthetic rubber, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco and wood.

         i.   Manufacturing, assembling, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, dairy products, food products, including fruits and vegetables, but not including fish and meat products, pickles, sauerkraut, vinegar or yeast, or refining or rendering of fats and oils.

         j.   Blacksmith shops; boat buildings; electric motor rebuilding, machine shops; paint shops.

         k.   Manufacture and maintenance of electric neon signs, billboards and commercial advertising structures.

         l.   Public utility and public service structures and facilities such as communications equipment buildings, electric distribution substations, electric transmission substations, gas regulator stations, public service pumping stations, public utility service yards, corporation yards, railroad rights of way and stations, reservoirs and storage tanks.

         m.   Lumber yards, including all planing mills; mattress manufacture; storage yards for commercial vehicles for feed; flour; feed and grain mills; grain elevators; and

         n.   Other uses which are added to this list by interpretation in accordance with the procedures prescribed in Chapter 1 of this Title.

      3.   Food lockers and accessory sales.

      4.   Gasoline service stations, including dispensing of diesel and liquid petroleum gas fuels and complete truck service.

      5.   Offices, retail stores and watchman's living quarters incidental to and on the same site with an industrial use.

      6.   Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted use.

      7.   Cotton seed research facility.

   C.   Permitted Uses; Administrative Review/Approval:

      1.   Gas and electric transmission lines, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 18 of this Title.

      2.   Expansion, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of single- family dwellings, provided that such continued use will not create a health or safety threat to the inhabitants of the dwelling from noise, odor, dust, or exposure to hazardous conditions, and that continued use of the dwelling will not significantly interfere with the normal operation of businesses currently existing in the industrial district.

      3.   Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted use.

      4.   Mobile or modular offices.

      5.   Hazardous waste treatment equipment which is added to an existing use at the same site shall be subject to CEQA.

   D.   Conditional Uses; Commission Approval:

      1.   Any of the uses listed in subsection 11-13-3B of this Chapter, provided that, on the basis of the use permit application and evidence submitted, the Planning Commission makes the following findings in addition to the findings prescribed in Chapter 17 of this Title:

         a.   That consideration of all the determinable characteristics of the use which is the subject of the application indicates that the use has the same essential characteristics as the uses listed in subsection B of this Section, with respect to methods of operation, type of process, materials, equipment, structures, storage and appearances.

         b.   If the use involves nuisance or hazardous characteristics, that the application include sufficient evidence to indicate that special devices, construction or site design are planned to eliminate the nuisance or hazardous characteristics normally attendant to operation of the use.

         c.   That the use reasonably can be expected to conform with the required conditions prescribed for the I District in Section 11-13-6 of this Chapter.

      2.   Public buildings and grounds.

      3.   Bulk storage and delivery of liquefied petroleum gas. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

   A.   The Heavy Industrial (IH) District is intended for application to those urban areas of the City which are designated for heavy industrial use in the General Plan.

   B.   Permitted Uses:

      1.   All permitted uses in the IL District, including uses permitted in the CS District.

      2.   Heavy industrial and related uses including:

Aircraft and aircraft accessories and parts manufacture;

Automobile, truck and trailer accessories and parts manufacture;

Bag cleaning;

Battery manufacture;

Boiler works;

Box factories and cooperage;

Breweries, distilleries and wineries;

Building materials manufacture and assembly including composition wallboards, partitions, panels and prefabricated structures;

Business machine manufacture including accounting machines, calculators, cardcounting equipment and typewriters;

Can and metal container manufacture;

Candle manufacture, not including rendering;

Carpet and rug manufacture;

Cement products manufacture provided no hazard of fire or explosion is created, including adhesives, bleaching products, bluing, calcimine, dyestuffs (except aniline dyes), essential oils, soda and soda compounds and vegetable gelatin, glue and size;

Clay products manufacture including brick, fire brick, tile and pipe;

Concrete and concrete products manufacture;

Cotton ginning, cotton wadding, cotton seed processing and linter manufacture;

Firearms manufacture;

Food products manufacture including such processing as cooking, dehydrating, roasting, refining, pasteurization and extracting involved in the preparation of such products as casein, cereal, chocolate and cocoa products, cider and vinegar, coffee, fruits and vegetables, glucose, milk and dairy products, molasses and syrups, oleo/margarine, pickles, sauerkraut, sugar, vegetable oils and yeast;

Glass and glass products manufacture;

Graphite and graphite products manufacture;

Gravel, rock and cement yards;

Ink manufacture;

Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants and similar agricultural, industrial and household chemical compounds manufacture;

Jute, hemp, sisal and oakum products manufacture;

Leather and fur finishing and dyeing, not including tanning and curing;

Machinery manufacture including heavy electrical, agricultural, construction and mining machinery and light machinery and equipment such as air conditioning, commercial motion picture equipment, dishwashers, dryers, furnaces, heaters, refrigerators, stoves and washing machines;

Machine tools manufacture including metal lathers, metal presses, metal stamping machines and woodworking machines;

Meat products processing and packaging, not including slaughtering and glue and size manufacture;

Metal alloys and foil manufacture including solder, pewter, brass, bronze and tin, lead and gold foil;

Metal casting and foundries not including magnesium foundries;

Motor and generator manufacture and testing;

Paper products manufacture including shipping containers, pump goods, carbon paper and coated paper stencils;

Paraffin products manufacture;

Plastic manufacture;

Porcelain products manufacture including bathroom and kitchen fixtures and equipment;

Precious metals reduction, smelting and refining;

Rubber products manufacture including tires and tubes;

Sandblasting;

Shoe polish manufacture;

Solid waste recycling;

Starch and dextrine manufacturing;

Steam electric generating stations;

Steel products manufacture and assembly including steel cabinets and lockers, doors, fencing and furniture;

Stone products manufacture and stone processing including abrasives, asbestos, stone screening and sand and lime products;

Storage, sorting, collecting or baling of iron, junk, paper, rags, or scrap;

Structural steel products manufacture including bars, girders, rail and wire rope;

Textile bleaching;

Wire and cable manufacturing;

Wood and lumber processing and woodworking including planing mills and saw mills, excelsior, plywood, veneer and wood-preserving treatment;

Other uses which are added to this list by the City Planning Commission in accordance with the procedure prescribed in Chapter 1 of this Title.

      3.   Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditional use.

   C.   Permitted Uses; Administrative Review:

      1.   Gas and electric transmission lines.

      2.   Expansion, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of single- family dwellings, provided that such continued use will not create a health or safety threat to the inhabitants of the dwelling from noise, odor, dust, or exposure to hazardous conditions, and that continued use of the dwelling will not significantly interfere with the normal operation of businesses currently existing in the industrial district.

      3.   Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a use permitted by administrative approval.

      4.   Mobile and modular offices.

      5.   Hazardous waste treatment equipment which is added to an existing use at the same site shall be subject to CEQA.

   D.   Conditional Uses; Commission Approval:

      1.   The following uses and other uses which involve nuisances, dangers of fire or explosion or other hazards to health and safety, provided that the City Planning Commission shall make a specific finding that the use can be expected to conform with each of the required conditions prescribed for a Heavy Industrial District in Section 11-13-6 of this Chapter. The Commission may require submission of reports by technical consultants or other evidence in addition to the data prescribed in Chapter 19 of this Title.

Asphalt and asphalt products manufacture;

Cement, lime, gypsum and plaster of paris manufacture;

Charcoal, lampblack and fuel briquettes manufacture;

Chemical products manufacture including acetylene, aniline dyes, ammonia, carbide, caustic soda, cellulose, chlorine, cleaning and polishing preparations, creosote, exterminating agents, hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrating of cotton or other materials, nitrates of an explosive nature, potash, pyroxlin, rayon yarn, and carbolic, hydrochloric, picric and sulfuric acids;

Coal, coke and tar products manufacture;

Drop forges;

Dumps and slag piles;

Electroplating shops;

Explosives manufacture and storage;

Film manufacture;

Fireworks manufacture and storage;

Fish products processing and packaging;

Garbage and refuse dumps;

Gas and oil wells;

Gelatin glue and size manufacture from animal or fish refuse;

Grain rolling and storage;

Hazardous waste management facilities, including transfer, storage, treatment, and disposal facilities, or combinations thereof;

Incineration and reduction of garbage, offal and dead animals;

Junkyards;

Lard manufacture;

Linoleum and oil cloth manufacture;

Liquefied petroleum gas bulk storage and delivery;

Magnesium foundries;

Manure, peat and topsoil processing and storage;

Motor vehicles wrecking yards;

Paint manufacture including enamel, lacquer, shellac, turpentine and varnish;

Paper mills;

Petroleum and petroleum products and refining and storage;

Rifle and pistol ranges;

Rubber manufacture or processing including natural or synthetic rubber and gutta-percha;

Soap manufacture including fat rendering;

Steam plants;

Stockyards, stock feeding yards and slaughterhouses;

Stone quarries, gravel pits, mines and stone mills;

Storage of inflammable liquids;

Storage of used building materials;

Tallow manufacture;

Tanneries and curing and storage of rawhides;

Wood and bones distillation;

Wood pulp and fiber reduction and processing.

      2.   Public buildings and grounds.

      3.   Incidental and accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a conditional use. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

No signs or outdoor advertising structure of any character shall be permitted except as provided in Chapter 16 of this Title. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

   A.   Where a site adjoins an RA, R, PO, or C District, a solid wall or screen fence, six feet (6') in height or such other height or type of screening device as may be required by the Planning Commission, shall be located on the property line common to such Districts, except in a required front yard.

   B.   A use not conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure, on a site across a street or an alley from an RA, R, or C District, shall be screened by an ornamental solid wall or screen fence, not less than six feet (6') in height, if found by the City Planning Department to be unsightly.

   C.   In an IL District, open storage materials and equipment shall be permitted only within an area surrounded and screened by an ornamental solid wall or fence or compact evergreen hedge (with solid gates where necessary), not less than six feet (6') in height.

   D.   No fence, wall or hedge exceeding four feet (4') in height, with the top one foot (1') being fifty percent (50%) or more open, shall be located or maintained within the area of a corner lot on the street side of a diagonal line connecting points located thirty feet (30') along the property lines as measured from the intersection of the property lines at the street corner.

   E.   No fence or wall shall exceed six feet (6') in height if located in a required side or rear yard or three feet (3') in height if located in a required front yard, except that a chainlink fence greater than three feet (3') in height may be located in any portion of a required front yard. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

   A.   In the IL and IH Districts, all open and unlandscaped portions of any lot shall be maintained in good condition free from weeds, dust, trash and debris.

   B.   No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment or materials shall be employed which are found by the Planning Department to be injurious to persons residing or working in the vicinity by reason of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, vibrations, illumination, glare or heavy truck traffic or to involve any hazard of fire explosion or radioactivity or to emit electrical disturbances which adversely affect commercial or electronic equipment outside the boundaries of the site.

   C.   No solid or liquid wastes shall be discharged into a natural watercourse, nor into a public or private sewage disposal system except in compliance with applicable regulations of the State.

   D.   No use shall emit particulate matter or other air pollutants in excess of the applicable air pollution emission standards of the Air Pollution Control District, State or of the Federal government. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

   A.   No minimum lot area is required in the IL District.

   B.   The minimum lot area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in the IH District. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

No limitations. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

Maximum building and structure coverage (floor area ratio):

 

 

(Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

   A.   Front Yard: The minimum front yard shall be as follows:

 

 

   B.   Except as specified in subsection B1, B2 and B3 of this Section, no rear yard or side yards shall be required.

      1.   The minimum rear yard abutting an RA, R, RM, PO, or C District shall be fifteen feet (15').

      2.   On a reversed corner lot adjoining a key lot in an RA, R, RM, PO, or C District, the minimum side yard adjoining the street shall not be less than one-half (1/2) the required front yard on the key lot.

      3.   The minimum side yard abutting an RA, R, RM, PO, or C District shall be fifteen feet (15'). (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

No limitations, except for Building Code requirements. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

No greater than seventy five feet (75'), except that a greater height may be approved for tanks, towers, silos and similar facilities under the provisions of Chapter 19 of this Title. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall be provided on the site for each use as prescribed in Chapter 14 of this Title. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

No use shall be erected on any lot or site in an I District until the site plan shall have been submitted to, and approved by, the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 20 of this Title. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

All uses shall be subject to the general provisions and exceptions as prescribed in Chapter 17 of this Title. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

   A.   Purposes And Application: The Planned Industrial Districts (IP) are intended for application to those industrial areas which are being developed or are planned for development for the mutual protection of a community of industries in accordance with a development program which involves the combining of certain uses which are otherwise permitted only within the IL or IH Districts and which involves development regulations which are more restrictive than those otherwise provided in the IL and IH Districts.

   B.   Regulations: In order to assure the mutual protection and compatibility of uses located, or proposed to be located, within an IP District, the owners of all the land within the area proposed to be classified IP shall submit to the Planning Commission, the following:

      1.   All permitted uses and uses permitted by administrative approval as listed in the IL and IH Zoning Districts.

      2.   A more restrictive list of those uses set forth in subsections 11-13-2C and 11-13-3B of this chapter which uses are desired by the owners to be listed as permitted uses under this section; and

      3.   A statement of more restrictive regulations relating to each of the subjects of sections 11-13-4 through 11-13-14 of this chapter than are now provided by these sections and which are desired by the owners to become additional regulations under this section.

Upon written approval of the commission and council, the list of permitted uses and statements of more restrictive regulations requested for a particular parcel of land shall become the regulations of this section with respect to such parcel of land by reference with the same force and effect as if the regulations were specifically set out and described under this section; provided, however, such statements of more restrictive regulations shall apply in addition to those prescribed within sections 11-13-4 through 11-13-14 of this chapter.

      4.   All uses listed as requiring conditional use permits in the IL or IH districts shall be considered as conditional uses under this section.

   C.   Required Conditions: Before the commission and council may give written approval pursuant to the provisions of subsection B of this section and classify property as being within the IP district in accordance with the provisions of this section and all other applicable provisions of this title, the owners referred to in subsection B of this section shall record in the office of the county recorder, deed restrictions running with the land affected corresponding to the list of permitted uses and statements of more restrictive regulations approved pursuant to the provisions of subsection B of this section. (Ord. 527, 8-4-1997)

Medical marijuana dispensaries shall not be a land use allowed by this chapter in any of the industrial zone districts summarized herein. "Medical marijuana dispensary" means any facility or location where medical marijuana is made available to and/or distributed by or to three (3) or more of the following: a) a primary caregiver, b) a qualified patient, or c) a person with an identification card, in strict accordance with California Health and Safety Code section 11352.5 et. seq. "Medical marijuana dispensary" shall not include the following uses, so long as the location of such uses are otherwise regulated by this code or applicable law: a) a clinic licensed pursuant to chapter 1 of division 2 of the California Health and Safety Code, b) a healthcare facility licensed pursuant to chapter 2 of division 2 of the California Health and Safety Code, c) a residential care facility for persons with chronic life threatening illness licensed pursuant to chapter 3.01 of division 2 of the California Health and Safety Code, d) a residential care facility for the elderly licensed pursuant to chapter 3.2 of division 2 of the California Health and Safety Code, e) a residential hospice, or f) a home health agency licensed pursuant to chapter 8 of division 2 of the California Health and Safety Code, as long as any such use complies strictly with applicable law including, but not limited to, California Health and Safety Code section 11362.5 et. seq. (Ord. 577, 1-12-2005)