In addition to the objectives prescribed in Section 18.02.030, the light industrial district is established by this chapter to achieve the following purposes:

(1)

To reserve appropriately located land for light industrial plants and related activities;

(2)

To protect areas appropriate for light industrial use from intrusion by residences and other inharmonious uses;

(3)

To protect residential, professional and administrative office, and commercial properties and to protect nuisance-free, nonhazardous light industrial uses from the adverse impacts of certain other industrial uses;

(4)

To provide opportunities for certain types of light industrial plants to concentrate in mutually beneficial relationship to each other;

(5)

To provide adequate space to meet the needs of industrial development, including off-street parking and truck loading areas and landscaped areas;

(6)

To provide sufficient open space around industrial structures to minimize the hazard of fire;

(7)

To minimize traffic congestion and to avoid the overloading of utilities by preventing the construction of buildings of excessive size in relation to the amount of land around them;

(8)

To ensure that the appearance of industrial structures and uses is harmonious with the visual character of the town;

(9)

To provide employment opportunities close to home for residents of the town and surrounding area.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

The following uses shall be permitted:

(1)

Warehousing and indoor storage. The storage of fuel or flammable liquids may be allowed with the approval of the town's fire chief;

(2)

Wholesaling and distribution establishments;

(3)

Offices and office buildings which generate no greater traffic than distribution, warehousing or light manufacturing uses;

(4)

Parking lots accessory to a permitted or conditional use improved in conformity with the standards prescribed for off-street parking facilities;

(5)

Printing and blueprint shops;

(6)

Mini-storage facilities;

(7)

Music rehearsal/recording studios;

(8)

Incidental and accessory structures and uses on the same site with and necessary for the operation of a permitted use;

(9)

Keeping of chickens (excluding roosters, quacking ducks, guinea fowl or pea fowl) in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 18.21.

(10)

Any other permitted use which is added by the town council in accord with the provisions of Chapter 18.36, Administration.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

(Ord. No. 931, §§ 14, 15, 3-20-2012)

The following conditional uses shall be permitted upon the granting of a use permit in accord with the provisions of Chapter 18.26, Conditional Uses:

(1)

Light industrial and related uses, including:

(A)

Appliance repair,

(B)

Artistic and photographic studios,

(C)

Assembly plants,

(D)

Bakeries, wholesale,

(E)

Biotechnology firms,

(F)

Business, trade or vocational schools,

(G)

Cabinet shops,

(H)

Ceramic shops,

(I)

Dry cleaning plants,

(J)

Electronic industry,

(K)

Furniture manufacturing, refinishing or repair,

(L)

Laboratories: commercial testing, research, experimental or other, including pilot plants,

(M)

Machine shops,

(N)

Medical services,

(O)

Packaging plants,

(P)

Pharmaceutical manufacturing,

(Q)

Photocopy shops,

(R)

Resource recovery and recycling facilities,

(S)

Temporary uses,

(T)

Wholesale and distribution;

(2)

Retail stores incidental to, and on the same site with, a light industrial or related use prescribed in subsection (1) of this section;

(3)

Commercial recreation establishments;

(4)

Public utility and public service structures or installations when found by the planning commission to be necessary for the public health, safety or welfare;

(5)

Outdoor dry storage;

(6)

Incidental and accessory structures and uses on the same site with, and necessary for, the operation of a conditional use;

(7)

Speculative grading and certain structures as defined in Chapter 18.24, General Provisions and Exceptions;

(8)

Keeping of chickens (excluding roosters, quacking ducks, guinea fowl or pea fowl) and/or honey bees (apis Mellifera) in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 18.21.

(9)

Any other conditional use which is added by the town council in accord with the provisions of Chapter 18.36, Administration.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

(Ord. No. 931, §§ 16, 17, 3-20-2012)

The following conditions shall be required for all uses:

(1)

Open storage of materials and equipment shall be permitted only within an area surrounded by a solid fence, masonry wall or compact evergreen hedge not less than six feet in height with a solid gate where necessary; provided, that neither the area nor the fence, wall or hedge shall be located in any required front, side or rear yard, and; provided further, that no materials or equipment shall be stored to a height greater than six feet;

(2)

A business, service or process which is not conducted within a completely enclosed structure may be required by the planning commission to be wholly or partially screened by either a solid fence, masonry wall or compact evergreen hedge not less than five feet in height;

(3)

No use shall occupy a required front, side or rear yard except landscaping, parking and loading areas, access drives, walkways, lighting standards, guard railings and signs, in accord with the provisions of Chapter 18.22, Signs;

(4)

All mechanical, heating and air conditioning equipment shall be effectively screened from public view;

(5)

No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment or materials shall be employed which, on the basis of the environmental assessment required by the California Environmental Quality Act and town resolution prescribing procedures and guidelines for environmental impact review, is found to have any adverse impact detectable beyond the boundaries of the site by reason of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried wastes, noise, vibration, glare, electromagnetic interference, unsightliness or other objectionable feature, or to involve any hazard of fire or explosion.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

No sign, outdoor advertising structure, or display of any kind shall be permitted except as prescribed in Chapter 18.22, Signs.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

The minimum net site area shall be forty thousand square feet.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

The minimum front yard shall be thirty feet, except that, where the front property line of a site is across a street from property in a residential district, the minimum front yard shall be seventy-five feet.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

The minimum side yard shall be twenty-five feet with the following exception:

Where the side property line of a site adjoins property in a residential district, the minimum side yard adjoining the residential district shall be fifty feet, of which the ten feet adjoining the property line shall be landscaped with permanently maintained plant materials not less than six feet in height. In addition, a solid fence or masonry wall not less than six feet in height may be required by the planning commission if necessary to screen the use adequately.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

The minimum rear yard shall be thirty feet with the following exception:

Where the rear property line of a site adjoins property in a residential district, the minimum rear yard shall be fifty feet, of which the five feet adjoining the property line shall be landscaped with permanently maintained plant materials not less than six feet in height. In addition, a solid fence or masonry wall not less than six feet in height may be required by the planning commission if necessary to screen the use adequately.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

Gross floor area shall not exceed thirty-four percent of the net site area, exclusive of the floor area devoted to required parking. This restriction does not apply to existing structures, provided a proposed interior expansion of floor space requires no exterior expansion of the existing building and a professional traffic engineer, selected by the town, verifies in writing that the site will have sufficient off street parking to accommodate all existing and proposed uses on the site.

(Ord. 826 § 1, 1998: Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

No structure shall exceed thirty-five feet in height, as defined by Section 18.24.060, except that within five hundred feet of a residential district, no structure shall exceed thirty feet in height.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

Not less than ten feet adjoining the property line of a required front, side or rear yard adjacent to a street shall be landscaped and permanently maintained. Each off-street parking area having ten or more spaces shall have landscaped areas equivalent to at least ten percent of the area of the parking lot. Such additional landscaping may be required as is appropriate to the design and function of the structure.

All landscaped areas shall feature water conserving landscape designs and be equipped with an automatic irrigation system. A landscape plan, showing the locations and varieties of plant materials and specifying provisions for maintenance, shall be submitted for design review approval in accord with the procedures prescribed in Chapter 18.30, Design Review.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

Off-street parking facilities and off-street loading facilities shall be provided for each use as prescribed in Chapter 18.20, Off-Street Parking and Loading.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

Design review approval is prescribed for applicable projects in accordance with Chapter 18.30.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)

(Ord. No. 1038, § 16, 7-16-2024)

All uses shall be subject to the general provisions and exceptions prescribed in Chapter 18.24, General Provisions and Exceptions.

(Ord. 785 § 3(b) (part), 1994)