No person shall use any portion of any property in a C-M zone except as permitted by this chapter. The following uses shall be permitted uses in the C-M zone:

1.

Any use permitted in the C-2 zone, subject to all the limitations and restrictions imposed by Chapter 17.44, except as expressly provided in this chapter;

2.

A dwelling on the same lot on which a factory is located, when such dwelling is used exclusively by a caretaker or superintendent of such factory and his family;

3.

The manufacture and assembly of electrical appliances such as:

a.

Electronic instruments and devices,

b.

Radios and phonographs, including manufacture of small parts, such as coils; no metal stamping;

4.

Addressograph services;

5.

Assaying;

6.

Awning shops, canvas goods, sales and service;

7.

Book binderies;

8.

Cabinet shops, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

9.

Candy manufacturing, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

10.

Catering establishments, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

11.

Confectionary manufacturing;

12.

Cookie manufacturing;

13.

Cosmetic manufacturing;

14.

Doughnut manufacturing;

15.

Food commissaries;

16.

Frozen food lockers, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

17.

Glass studios (staining, edging, beveling and silvering in connection with sale of mirrors and glass for decorative purposes);

18.

Ice cream manufacturing, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

19.

Janitorial supplies, wholesale;

20.

Jewelry manufacturing;

21.

Job printers, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

22.

Laboratories, experimental film, motion picture research or testing;

23.

Lapidary shops, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

24.

Manufacturing, assembly, compounding or treating of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, leather (excepting machine belting), canvas, paper, cellophane, plastic (from previously molded material), cloth, shell, felt, textiles, fur, yarn, glass;

25.

Motion picture reconstruction (synchronizing film with sound track);

26.

Optical establishments, including the sale of lenses and frames and the grinding and mounting of lenses;

27.

Optical manufacturing;

28.

Packaging businesses (no outside storage);

29.

Perfume manufacturing, blending and bottling;

30.

Pie factories, six a.m. to ten p.m.;

31.

Plumbing shops with no outdoor storage;

32.

Scientific instrument and equipment manufacturing or precision materials;

33.

Stones, precious or semiprecious, manufacturing products of;

34.

Toiletries manufacturing, except soap;

35.

Warehouses, wholesale businesses and storage buildings (no outside storage).

(Ord. 571 § 7, 2003: Ord. 350 § 1(part), 1981: Ord. 177 § 2(part), 1966: prior code § 9470).

Because of considerations of smoke, fumes, dust, odor, vibration, noise, traffic congestion, or hazard, the establishment and operation of the following uses in the C-M zone shall not be permitted unless a conditional use permit authorizing such use has been granted:

1.

Auction houses or stores;

2.

Box lunch preparation, hours of operation to be approved by planning commission;

3.

Carpet cleaning plants, planning commission to approve noise level;

4.

Ceramic products manufacturing, including figurines, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or low-pressure gas;

5.

Electric distribution substations, including microwave facilities;

6.

Industrial emergency hospitals;

7.

Market, public, wholesale and jobbers;

8.

Motion picture studio (no outdoor sets);

9.

Parcel delivery terminals;

10.

Produce market, wholesale;

11.

Public market, wholesale;

12.

Testing laboratories;

13.

Wiping rag storage, laundered only (no outside storage).

(Ord. 571 § 8, 2003).

Every use permitted in the C-M zone shall be subject to the following limitations:

A.

When a C-M zoned lot fronts or sides upon a street, public or private, there shall be maintained a front or side yard area of not less than twenty feet in depth. A landscaped area, not less than twenty feet in width, shall be maintained along all street frontage of such lots.

B.

All uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides with a solid, view-obscuring wall not less than six feet in height, except such uses as are customarily conducted in the open.

C.

On any lot in the C-M zone which abuts property in any R or A zone, no building shall be erected closer than twenty feet to the common lot line; and there should be constructed and maintained in and along such common boundary line a six-foot solid masonry wall; and there should be installed and maintained a ten-foot wide strip of landscaping immediately adjacent to the side wall required in this subsection and subsection B of this section.

D.

Mechanical Devices. All mechanical heating, air- conditioning, refrigeration or similar devices, maintained and operated on the exterior of buildings located in the C-M, M-1 and M-2 zones, shall be enclosed and shall be designed, installed, operated and maintained in such a manner as to eliminate unsightliness, noise, smoke, dust, etc., which would otherwise cause an interference with adjacent C-M, M-1 and M-2 zoned properties.

(Ord. 400 § 1(part), 1986; Ord. 350 § 1(part), 1981: Ord. 177 § 2(part), 1966: prior code § 9471).

No building in the C-M zone shall exceed a height of thirty-five feet (see Section 17.48.051).

(Ord. 350 § 1(part), 1981: Ord. 177 § 2(part), 1966: prior code § 9472).

No front or side yards shall be required except as set forth in Section 17.48.020.

(Ord. 350 § 1(part), 1981: Ord. 177 § 2(part), 1966: prior code § 9473).

Signs which relate to or advertise any service or product rendered, manufactured, or available from the uses permitted on the property shall be permitted as an accessory use; provided:

A.

For freestanding signs, that the same do not exceed one hundred fifty square feet of gross sign face area;

B.

That signs which are a part of the building shall not exceed one square foot of gross face area for each one hundred square feet of gross floor area in the building.

(Ord. 350 § 1(part), 1981: Ord. 177 § 2(part), 1966: prior code § 9474).

A.

Height Limitations. May change for C-zones, this would require approval from the planning commission as a conditional use permit and also compliance with the Los Angeles County building department as to type of construction which would permit additional height;

B.

Permissible Lot Coverage. At present this code allows a maximum lot coverage of fifty percent of the total area of the lot, with the influx of compact cars and sharing of rides plus the need for additional building to augment the higher cost of property, the planning commission may allow a higher density of building as a conditional use permit;

C.

Loading Docks, Storage, Etc. Method of screening, outside storage and height of fence or wall must first be approved by the city planning commission;

D.

Mechanical Devices. Placement, design, operation and maintenance must be approved by the planning commission;

E.

Community Redevelopment Agency. Where applicable, all planning commission approvals and conditional use permits shall first be subject to approval by the community redevelopment agency (C.R.A.)

(Ord. 350 § 1(part), 1981).