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Dinuba City Zoning Code

17.39 Permitted

Uses in Industrial Zones

17.39.010 Purpose.

This chapter establishes Table 39-1 which contains the list of uses that are permitted in each industrial zone within the city of Dinuba. The intent is to ensure (to the degree practical) that industrial neighborhoods function in a harmonious manner and that uses with similar operating characteristics are reasonably grouped and do not conflict with one another or surrounding areas and zones. (Ord. 2025-01 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2025)

17.39.020 Permitted uses table.

Table 39-1 lists uses that are permitted in Dinuba’s industrial zones. Permitted uses are listed in the left column and the city’s two industrial zones are listed across the top. To determine whether a particular use is permitted (and whether it is subject to any special requirements) each box is marked with one of the following:

• “P” Permitted.

• “C” Permitted by conditional use permit.

• “(S)” Where the use is listed as permitted (or conditionally permitted) along with the letter “(S)”, the use is permitted subject to special standards contained in Chapter 17.45.

• A box in the table with no letter indicates that the use is not permitted in this zone.

Note: For projects involving new construction, site plan review is required consistent with procedures in Chapter 17.55 (Site Plan Review).

Any use that is judged by the city planner to be reasonably similar in nature to other permitted uses may be considered a permitted use. Further, any use judged by the city planner to be reasonably similar in nature to a conditionally permitted use may be considered as such (permitted by conditional use permit).

For ease of use, the land uses in Table 39-1 are grouped into similar categories, as follows:

A.    Automotive and motor vehicle uses.

B.    Industrial yard uses.

C.    Manufacturing, assembly and processing.

D.    Public and semi-public/institutional uses.

E.    Sales uses and related activities.

F.    Service, repair and related businesses.

G.    Storage and warehousing.

H.    Miscellaneous uses.

Table 39-1: Permitted Uses in Commercial Zones

A. Automotive and motor vehicle uses, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

Car wash (automatic), including use of mechanical conveyors, blowers and steam cleaning

P

P

Automobile and tractor parts and equipment stores

P

 

Automobile detailing, hand car wash within an enclosed building

P

 

Automobile oil and lube shop

P

 

Automobile repair, body and fender repair

P

 

Automobile upholstery shops

P

 

Automobile, truck and trailer accessories and parts manufacture

P

 

Boat servicing

P

 

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

B. Industrial yard uses, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

Building materials yards

P

 

Bulk storage and delivery of fuel, including liquefied petroleum gas

C

C

Gravel, rock and cement yards

C

P

Lumber yards, not including planing mills or saw

P

 

Petroleum products storage; provided, that gasoline, kerosene and similar highly inflammable products shall be stored underground

P

P

Rock, sand and gravel storage and distribution

C

P

Vehicle wrecking yards

C

C

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

C. Manufacturing, assembly and processing activities, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacturing

C

P

Asphalt and asphalt products manufacture

 

C

Bakeries, wholesale

P

 

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)

P

 

Battery manufacture

C

P

Blacksmith shops

P

 

Bottling works

P

 

Box manufacturing

C

P

Breweries

C

P

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

C

P

Cabinet shops

P

 

Can and metal container manufacture

C

P

Candle manufacture, not including rendering

C

P

Cement and concrete products and 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

C

P

Ceramic and pottery

P

 

Charcoal, lampblack and fuel briquettes manufacture

 

C

Chemical products manufacture including acetylene, aniline dyes, 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, pyroxylin, rayon yarn, and carbolic, hydrochloric, picric and sulphuric acids

 

C

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

C

P

Coal, coke and tar products manufacture

 

C

Cosmetics, drugs, pharmaceuticals, and toiletries (not including refining or rendering of fats or oils)

P

P

Cotton ginning, cotton wadding, cotton seed processing and lint manufacture

C

P

Dairy products plants

P

 

Detergent manufacture

C

P

Drop forges

C

Electrical supplies such as coils, condensers, insulation, lamps, switches and wire and cable assembly

P

P

Electroplating shops

C

C

Explosives manufacture and storage

 

C

Fertilizer manufacture and storage

 

C

Firearms manufacture

C

P

Fireworks manufacture and storage

 

C

Fish products processing and packaging

 

C

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 vegetable, glucose, milk and dairy products, molasses and syrups, oleomargarine, pickles, sauerkraut, sugar, vegetable oils and yeast

C

P

Frozen food processing, storage and accessory sales

P

P

Gas manufacture or storage

 

C

Gelatin, glue and size manufacture from animal or fish refuse

 

C

Glass and glass products manufacture

C

P

Grain rolling and storage

 

C

Graphite and graphite products manufacture

C

P

Ink manufacture

C

P

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

C

P

Jute, hemp, sisal and oakum products manufacture

C

P

Lard manufacture

 

C

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

C

P

Linoleum and oil cloth manufacture

 

C

Lumber processing and woodworking including planing mills and saw mills, excelsior, plywood, veneer and wood-preserving treatment

 

C

Machine shops

P

P

Machine tools manufacture

C

P

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, washing machines and business machine manufacture, including accounting machines, calculators, card counting equipment and typewriters (combine with manufacturing)

C

P

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

C

P

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

C

P

Metal and metal ores reduction, refining, smelting and alloying

 

C

Metal casting and foundries not including magnesium foundries

C

P

Motor and generator manufacture and testing

C

P

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

 

C

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

C

P

Paraffin products manufacture

C

P

Planing mill, excluding refuse burning combine with lumber milling

P

P

Plastic manufacture

C

P

Porcelain products manufacture including bathroom and kitchen fixtures and equipment

C

P

Poultry and rabbit processing

P

P

Precious metals reduction, smelting and refining

C

P

Prefabricated buildings manufacture

P

P

Rubber manufacture or processing including natural or synthetic rubber

 

P

Scientific, medical, dental, and drafting instruments, orthopedic and medical appliances, cameras and photographic equipment, electronic equipment, musical instruments, precision instruments, optical goods, watches and clocks

P

P

Sheet metal shops

P

 

Shoe polish manufacture

C

P

Sign manufacture

P

 

Soap manufacture including fat rendering

 

C

Soda and compound manufacture

C

P

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

C

P

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

C

P

Tallow manufacture

 

C

Tanneries and curing and storage of rawhides

 

C

Tire manufacturing, rebuilding, recapping and retreading

P

P

Wire and cable manufacturing

C

P

Wood pulp and fiber reduction and processing

 

C

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

D. Public and semi-public/institutional uses, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

Communication and wireless facilities, with or without stealthing

P

P

Communications equipment buildings

P

P

Electrical distribution substations, communication equipment buildings, gas regulator stations and utility pumping stations

P

P

Fire and police stations

P

 

Public buildings and grounds

P

P

Public utility service yards, electrical and gas transmission stations

P

P

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

E. Sales uses and related activities, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

Equipment rental yard

P

 

Farm equipment sales and service

P

 

Feed and seed stores

P

 

Garden supply stores and nurseries; provided, that all equipment, supplies and merchandise, other than plants, shall be kept within a completely enclosed building or under lath structure; and further provided, that fertilizer of any type shall be stored and sold in packaged form only

P

 

Gasoline service stations, including dispensing of diesel and liquid petroleum gas fuels and complete truck service. Note: Sales of alcoholic beverages require a conditional use permit

P

 

Glass shops

P

 

Hardware stores

P

 

Hydroponic stores

P

 

Machinery sales and rentals

P

 

Rental equipment, including trailers, trucks, and cars

P

 

Retail sales on the grounds of a manufacturing facility, where the retail function does not occupy more than twenty-five percent of the floor space or active use area

P

 

Wholesale establishments

P

 

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

F. Service, repair and related businesses

Zones

M-1

M-2

Carpenters’ shops and incidental sales

P

 

Cleaning, pressing and dyeing establishments (using noninflammable and nonexplosive cleaning fluid)

P

 

Diaper supply services

P

 

Electrical appliance and incidental repair shops

P

 

Electrical shops

P

 

Exterminators

P

 

Heating and ventilating or air conditioning shops, including incidental sheet metal

P

 

Household and office equipment and machinery repair shops

P

 

Household appliance and repair shops

P

 

Laundries and laundromats (industrial scale)

P

 

Linen supply services

P

 

Printing, blueprint processing, lithographing and engraving

P

 

Plumbing and sheet metal shops

P

 

Rug and carpet cleaning and dyeing

P

 

Sandblasting

C

P

Recycling, including processing of recycled materials

C

P

Taxidermists

P

 

Towing: tow and store; tow and repair; tow and sales

P

 

Welding and blacksmithing shops, excepting drop hammers

P

 

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

G. Storage and warehousing

Zones

M-1

M-2

Cold storage plants

P

 

Contractor’s storage yards

P

 

Food lockers (no slaughtering, handling of dressed meats only)

P

 

Freight forwarding terminals

P

 

Ice and cold storage plant

P

P

Manure, peat and topsoil processing and storage

 

C

Mini-storage facilities

P

 

Petroleum gas bulk storage and delivery

 

C

Storage of inflammable liquids

 

C

Warehouses except for the storage of fuel oil or flammable liquids and explosives

P

 

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

H. Miscellaneous uses, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

Accessory buildings and uses (including storage buildings) customarily incidental to any permitted or conditionally permitted use

P

P

Animal hospitals and kennels and veterinarians

P

P

Auction rooms

P

 

Crematoriums and columbariums

P

 

Dwellings for a caretaker or watchman and his immediate family, necessary and incidental to a use located in such zone

P

P

Gas and oil wells

 

C

Gymnasiums

P

 

Hatcheries

P

P

Junk yards/landfills

 

C

Laboratories, experimental and testing

P

P

Offices (freestanding and as part of a permitted use)

P

P

Parcel and package delivery services

P

 

Parking lots improved in conformity with the standards prescribed for required off-street parking facilities in Chapter 17.49

P

P

Planned unit development subject to provisions of Chapter 17.41

C

C

Radio and television broadcasting studios

P

 

Recreation sales and service, including indoor commercial recreation

P

 

Shooting range, indoor

C

C

Solar electricity generating plant

P

P

Solar energy system

P

P

Trucking terminals

P

P

Key to Matrix: “P” = Permitted; “C” = Conditional use permit required; (S) = Subject to requirements for special uses (see Chapter 17.45).

(Ord. 2025-01 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2025)

B. Industrial yard uses, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

C. Manufacturing, assembly and processing activities, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

D. Public and semi-public/institutional uses, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

E. Sales uses and related activities, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2

F. Service, repair and related businesses

Zones

M-1

M-2

G. Storage and warehousing

Zones

M-1

M-2

H. Miscellaneous uses, including:

Zones

M-1

M-2