The purpose of the Heavy Industrial (M-3) district is to designate areas suitable for heavy manufacturing and industrial uses which have the greatest potential for producing undesirable or adverse by-products, including traffic, noise, odors, dust and vibrations. The M-3 district should be located in places substantially removed from residential areas.

(Prior code § 7085.01)

The following uses and all others determined to be similar to these uses pursuant to Sections 19.08.030 through 19.08.080 of this title are permitted in the M-3 district in accordance with the standards and procedures set out in Chapter 19.80 of this title:

A.

Residential uses:

— Manager, caretaker or proprietor quarters, including a mobilehome;

B.

Agricultural Uses.

1.

Agricultural industries:

— Agricultural by-product processing

— Alcohol distillery

— Animal products processing, including slaughter

— Brewery

— Cannery

— Cotton compress

— Cotton gin

— Creamery

— Dead animal and fat rendering

— Fertilizer, bulk storage and distribution

— Flour mill

— Fruit, vegetable and plant products processing, including packing, canning, preserving and shipping

— Garbage or offal reduction

— Glucose processing

— Grain elevator or storage

— Honey extraction

— Lumber drying kiln

— Oil extraction, nonmineral

— Saw or planing mill

— Tanning, curing or storing animal hides

— Tobacco processing

— Winery;

C.

Recreation, entertainment and tourist facilities:

— Adult business

— Batting cage

— Bingo parlor

— Bowling alley

— Circus or carnival, temporary, not to exceed four (4) days

— Dance hall, ballroom or discotheque

— Golf driving range

— Health club

— Hotel or motel

— Miniature golf

— Movie theater, walk-in

— Pool or billiard parlor

— Skating rink, roller or ice

— Tennis, swim or athletic club

— Theater, live

— Video games arcade;

D.

Commercial Uses.

1.

Offices:

— Business or professional

— Financial institution, including bank, savings and loan, or credit union

— Real estate

— Research and development,

2.

General Retail Sales:

— Antiques

— Appliances, including service and repair

— Art gallery

— Auto leasing

— Auto, new

— Auto parts and accessories

— Auto tire, including service

— Auto, used

— Bicycle, including rental and service

— Boat, including service and parts

— Bookstore, general

— Christmas tree, temporary

— Clothing and apparel

— Computer, including service and repair

— Department store

— Drugs and pharmaceuticals

— Electric appliances, including service and repair

— Electric equipment, including service and repair

— Feed

— Fireworks stand, temporary

— Floor covering, drapery, or upholstery

— Florist

— Furniture

— Gardening and landscaping supply

— Gift and card

— Gun, including repair

— Hardware, general

— Hobby supplies

— Home or office furnishings

— Ice vending machine

— Jewelry and watches

— Lapidary

— Lawnmower, including repair

— Leather goods and luggage

— Locksmith or key and lock shop

— Military surplus

— Mobilehomes, including rental and service

— Motorcycles, including rental and repair

— Musical instruments, including repair

— Newspaper or magazine stand

— Nursery, plant

— Office machines and equipment

— Paint and wallpaper

— Pawn shop

— Pet store

— Photographic supply or camera

— Plumbing supply

— Pottery

— Recreational vehicles, including service

— Shoes

— Sporting goods and athletic equipment

— Stationery and office supply

— Tobacco

— Toys

— Truck, includes rental

— Used clothing and household goods

— Variety

— Video and audio tape sales and rentals,

3.

Food and Beverage Retail Sales:

— Bakery

— Catering

— Convenience market

— Drive-in food market or dairy

— Farmers' market

— Food store

— Liquor store

— Specialized, including meat, vegetables, health foods, or candy,

4.

Eating and Drinking Establishments:

— Bars, taverns, or cocktail lounges

— Ice cream parlor

— Restaurant, cafe, or coffee shop

— Restaurant, fast-food,

5.

Services:

— Ambulance

— Artist studio

— Auto body repair and painting

— Auto rental

— Auto service/repair

— Auto service station

— Auto tire repair

— Auto towing

— Auto wash

— Auto wash, self-service

— Barber or beauty shop

— Bath house, including sauna, spa, Turkish, steam, or tanning

— Carpet cleaning

— Chiropractic or massage therapy

— Clinic, medical or physical therapy, out-patient only

— Equipment, heavy, or truck or trailer rental

— Equipment, small, rental

— Furniture cleaning, refinishing, or upholstery

— Gardening and landscaping

— Interior decorator

— Janitorial service

— Laboratory, medical, dental, optical, or biological

— Laboratory, testing, classifying, or experimental, not involving the use of explosives

— Laundromat, self-service

— Laundry, dry cleaning, pressing, and dyeing

— Miniwarehouse

— Mortuary or funeral parlor

— Packaging and mailing services

— Pest control, administrative offices only

— Pet grooming

— Photography studio

— Picture framing

— Printing, lithography, or blueprinting

— Shoe repair

— Shoe-shine stand

— Smog inspection station

— Tailor or dressmaker

— Tanning salon

— Tattoo parlor and body piercing

— Taxidermist

— Telegraph

— Ticket agency

— Travel agency

— Truck fueling station

— Truck service and repair

— Veterinary, including veterinary hospital

— Wedding chapel;

E.

Industrial Uses.

1.

Industrial manufacturing or assembly:

— Acetylene or other gas

— Acids

— Aircraft, assembly

— Ammonia or chlorine

— Asphalt

— Automobile or truck assembly

— Bag cleaning

— Batteries

— Blast furnace or smelting

— Boiler works

— Brick, tile or terra cotta products

— Building materials

— Cabinet shop

— Candle

— Carbon

— Carpet and mattress

— Celluloid or pyroxylin

— Cement

— Ceramics

— Chemical blending or manufacturing

— Clothing, garments or shoes

— Coal, wood or tar distillation

— Coke ovens

— Concrete blocks

— Cosmetics, perfumes or toiletries

— Creosote

— Detergent

— Disinfectant

— Drugs and pharmaceuticals

— Electronic appliance

— Electronic equipment

— Ethanol

— Fertilizer

— Fiberglass or silicone products

— Food or beverage products

— Furniture

— Glass

— Glue

— Ice

— Iron, steel, or other metals

— Linoleum or oiled products

— Machinery

— Metal, glass or paper recycling facility

— Mobilehome, modular home or recreational vehicle

— Musical instruments

— Neon signs

— Oil refining

— Ore reduction

— Paint, shellac, turpentine, or similar products

— Paint mixing

— Pallets, including repair

— Paper or pulp

— Plastic

— Potash

— Prefabricated buildings and structures

— Rolling mill

— Rubber

— Saw mills

— Smelting

— Soap

— Sodium compounds

— Soil amendments, not involving organic materials

— Starch

— Steel fabrication

— Stove or shoe polish

— Tar products

— Textiles

— Tobacco processing

— Toy manufacturing and assembly

— Trusses

— Wind-driven electrical generators, manufacture or assembly,

2.

Industrial storage:

— Automobile

— Bottled gas

— Cargo containers

— Chemical storage

— Cold storage

— Contractor's storage yard

— Draying or freight

— Equipment and building materials

— Feed and wood yards

— Liquefied petroleum gas, bulk storage or distribution in excess of two thousand (2,000) gallons capacity, when located at least one-half (½) mile from property zoned or designated for residential use and at least one-half (½) mile from existing residential development with a density greater than one (1) dwelling unit per acre and at least one-half (½) mile from any motel or hotel

— Log storage

— Lumber

— Mineral and ore storage and loading, with product storage and loading facilities wholly enclosed

— Moving and storage

— Petroleum

— Recreational vehicle

— Recyclable materials, collection and storage

— Truck and heavy equipment

— Warehouse,

3.

Other industrial uses:

— Asphaltic batch plant

— Assaying

— Bakery

— Beverage bottling works

— Billboard sign fabrication and storage

— Boat building and major repair

— Concrete batch plant

— Electroplating

— Machine shop

— Metal extrusion

— Newspaper, magazine or book printing

— Oilfield service yard

— Photographic processing plant or wholesale supply

— Powder coating and spray painting, enclosed

— Sandblasting, if incidental to another permitted use and conducted wholly within an enclosed building

— Sheet metal shop

— Tire retreading or recycling

— Welding or blacksmith

— Well drilling service

— Wholesale distribution;

F.

Transportation facilities:

— Auto parking garage or lot

— Bus depot, including service and storage

— Railroad freight classification or switching yard

— Railroad station

— Taxi depot, including service and storage;

G.

Utility and Communications Facilities.

— Microwave relay station

— Transmission lines and supporting towers, poles, microwave towers and underground facilities for gas, water, electricity, telephone or telegraph service owned and operated by a public utility company or other company under the jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commission pursuant to Section 19.08.090 of this title

— Utility substation;

H.

Resource Extraction and Energy Development Uses.

— Cogeneration facility or steam generators, not primarily intended for production oil or gas, excluding coal fired

— Electrical distribution stations

— Electrical power generating plants, excluding nuclear and coal

— Mineral exploration

— Oil or gas exploration and production pursuant to Chapter 19.98 of this title

— Rock, gravel, sand, concrete, aggregate, or soils crushing, processing, or distribution

— Solar energy electrical generators which are accessory to a permitted or conditionally permitted use and where the power generated does not exceed the total on-site power demand

— Small wind energy system, pursuant to Section 19.08.415

— Wind-driven electrical generators when accessory to a permitted or conditionally permitted use where:

1. The annual amount of power generated does not exceed the total on-site annual power demand.

2. The wind generators are located a minimum distance of one (1) times the overall machine height from any property line.

3. The parcel on which the wind generators will be erected does not abut a residential zoning district.

4. The wind generator(s) will be located a minimum of one (1) times the overall height to any off-site dwelling.

5. The proposed height of the wind turbines does not exceed the maximum heights specified in Figure 19.08.160.

I.

Waste Facilities.

— Burning of pre-chipped tires as a source of fuel in conjunction with a permitted or conditionally permitted industrial use

— Transfer station, small volume;

J.

Institutional Uses.

— Auditorium, public

— Charitable or public service organization

— Church

— Fire or police station

— Government office or building

— Library

— Museum

— Public agency or utility buildings and facilities;

K.

Educational Institutions and Schools.

1.

Specialized schools:

— Business or trade schools;

L.

Miscellaneous Uses.

— Auto or equipment auction, temporary, not to exceed four (4) days

— Commercial coach, when incidental to a permitted use

— Construction trailer, temporary, during construction activity only

— Drainage sump

— Kennel

— Massage parlor

— Revival, temporary, not to exceed fourteen (14) days

— Studio, radio, television, recording or movie

— Water system, small or large.

(Ord. G-7482 §§ 60—62, 2007; Ord. G-7189 § 41, 2005; Ord. G-7012 § 33, 200; Ord. G-6968 § 41, 2003; Ord. G-6864 § 41, 2002; Ord. G-6641 § 27, 1999; Ord. G-6551 §§ 73, 74, 1998; Ord. G-6412 § 45, 1997; Ord. G-6297 §§ 40, 41, 1996; Ord. G-6233 § 7, 1995; Ord. G-6191 §§ 50—53, 1995; Ord. G-6174 § 14, 1995; Ord. G-6077 § 175, 1994: Ord. G-5966 §§ 82, 83, 1993; Ord. G-5861 § 19, 1992; Ord. G-5803 § 38, 1992: Ord. G-5684 §§ 66—68, 1991; Ord. G-5346 § 66, 1990; Ord. G-5030 § 8, 1989; Ord. G-5029 § 8, 1989; Ord. G-4832 § 129, 1988; prior code § 7085.02)

(Ord. No. G-8226, §§ 60, 61, 11-8-11; Res. No. 2020-116, § 2, 5-19-20; Ord. No. G-8992, § 10, 3-8-21)

The following uses and all others determined to be similar to these uses pursuant to Sections 19.08.030 through 19.08.080 of this title are all permitted in the M-3 district in accordance with the standards set out in Chapter 19.80 of this title and subject to securing a conditional use permit in accordance with the standards and procedures set out in Chapter 19.104 of this title:

A.

Agricultural Uses.

1.

Breeding and raising animals:

— Beef cattle or livestock feed lot, stockyard, auction or sales yard;

B.

Residential Uses.

— Emergency shelter

— Single-family dwelling (including a mobilehome), one (1) per lot, not accessory to an industrial use;

C.

Recreation, Entertainment and Tourist Facilities.

— Card room

— Circus or carnival

— Golf course

— Racetrack or test track, automobile, bicycle, horse or motorcycle

— Shooting range or gun club

— Trade fairs and exhibitions, temporary (fourteen (14) day maximum), excluding flea markets and swap meets;

D.

Industrial Uses.

1.

Industrial manufacturing or assembly:

— Explosives or ammunition, including storage,

2.

Industrial storage:

— Explosives or ammunition

— Liquefied petroleum gas, bulk storage or distribution in excess of two thousand (2,000) gallons capacity

— Mineral and ore storage and loading, unenclosed

— Salvage or junk yard

— Tire storage

— Vehicle wrecking yard,

3.

Other industrial uses:

— Chemical recycling

— Construction or demolition waste material collection, recovery or recycling

— Sandblasting, unenclosed;

E.

Transportation Facilities.

— Airport, private

— Airport, public use

— Heliport;

F.

Utility and Communications Facilities.

— Radio, television or commercial communications transmitter, receiver or translator, except as specified in subsection (G) of Section 19.40.020 of this chapter;

G.

Resource Extraction and Energy Development Uses.

— Cogeneration facility or steam generators

— Electrical power generating plant, nuclear or coal powered

— Mining and mineral extraction pursuant to Chapter 19.100 of this title

— Solar energy electrical generators when not accessory to a permitted or conditionally permitted use

— Wind-driven electrical generators, commercial

— Wind-driven electrical generators when accessory to a permitted or conditionally permitted use which do not comply with the installation standards specified in Section 19.12.020(E);

H.

Waste Facilities.

— Burning of waste-derived fuels when in conjunction with a permitted or conditionally permitted industrial use, except for pre-chipped tires

— Community septic disposal system

— Greenwaste collection, recovery, and composting

— Hazardous waste disposal facility

— Medical waste treatment, fully enclosed

— Nonhazardous oil production and/or oily waste disposal facility

— Nonhazardous oilfield waste treatment or recycling

— Nonhazardous oily or liquid waste treatment or recycling

— Research, development, or testing of alternative fuel burning processes, temporary

— Sanitary landfill, private landfill or monofill

— Septage disposal site

— Septage storage and transfer site

— Sewage treatment plant

— Soil reclamation or remediation for soils contaminated with nonhazardous materials

— Transfer station, large volume

— Waste-to-energy facility;

I.

Institutional Uses.

— Cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium

— Crematory, when in conjunction with a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium or mortuary;

J.

Educational Institutions and Schools.

1.

Specialized schools:

— Police/security training facility;

K.

Miscellaneous Uses.

— Auction yards

— Flea market and swap meet

— Water treatment plant.

(Ord. G-7482 §§ 64, 65, 2007; Ord. G-7012 §§ 33, 35, 2003; Ord. G-6967 § 21, 2003; Ord. G-6551 § 76, 1998; Ord. G-6412 § 47, 1997; Ord. G-6297 §§ 43—46, 1996; Ord. G-6191 §§ 55, 56, 1995; Ord. G-6174 § 16, 1995; Ord. G-6077 § 176, 1994: Ord. G-5966 § 85, 1993; Ord. G-5803 § 39, 1992; Ord. G-5684 § 69, 70, 1991; Ord. G-5030 § 9, 1989; Ord. G-5029 § 9, 1989; Ord. G-4993 §§ 35, 36, 1989; Ord. G-4832 §§ 130—132, 1988; prior code § 7085.03)

(Ord. No. G-7821, § 56, 1-27-09; Ord. No. G-8226, § 62, 11-8-11; Ord. No. G-8656, § 5, 7-26-16; Res. No. 2020-116, § 2, 5-19-20; Ord. No. G-8992, § 11, 3-8-21)

All other uses not permitted by Sections 19.40.020 and 19.40.030 of this chapter or accessory thereto under Section 19.08.110 are prohibited in the M-3 district.

(Ord. G-7189 § 43, 2005: prior code § 7085.04)

There is no minimum lot size requirement in the M-3 district.

(Prior code § 7085.05)

There is no requirement for minimum lot area per dwelling unit in the M-3 district. Dwellings are not permitted, except as accessory to a permitted use.

(Prior code § 7085.06)

The following yard and setback requirements apply in the M-3 district:

A.

Front Yard. The front-yard minimum setback for all buildings shall be as follows:

1.

Forty (40) feet from the legal centerline of any existing or proposed public or private local street;

2.

Forty-five (45) feet from the legal centerline of any existing or proposed secondary highway;

3.

Fifty-five (55) feet from the legal centerline of any existing or proposed major highway.

B.

Side Yard. None required.

C.

Rear Yard. None required.

D.

In no case shall the buildings be located in any existing or future right-of-way established by any official or specific plan line, street, access easement or adopted circulation element of the applicable general or specific plan.

(Ord. G-6551 § 78, 1998: Ord. G-4832 § 133, 1988; prior code § 7085.07)

The following height limits apply in the M-3 district:

A.

Buildings and structures shall not exceed thirteen (13) stories or one hundred fifty (150) feet.

B.

Building and structures shall be set back from each street, alley, and lot line at least one (1) foot for each three (3) feet of height above six (6) stories or seventy-five (75) feet.

C.

Buildings and structures shall not exceed the maximum permitted heights in areas of protected military airspace as specified in Section 19.08.160.

(G-7189 § 44, 2005: prior code § 7085.08)

(Ord. No. G-8226, § 63, 11-8-11)

There is no requirement for minimum distance between structures in the M-3 district.

(Prior code § 7085.09)

Off-street parking in the M-3 district shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 19.82 of this title.

(Prior code § 7085.10)

A.

The following signs are permitted in the M-3 district in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 19.84 of this title:

1.

Temporary real estate signs advertising the property for sale or rent, not to exceed sixteen (16) square feet each, excluding the area of any vertical and/or horizontal support members;

2.

Temporary subdivision signs;

3.

Temporary construction signs;

4.

Temporary political, religious or civic campaign signs;

5.

Institutional identification signs;

6.

Signs attached to buildings;

7.

Monument signs, not to exceed one hundred (100) square feet in area each;

8.

Pole signs, not to exceed three hundred (300) square feet in area each and not exceeding a height of fifty (50) feet;

9.

Off-site advertising signs, not exceeding a height of thirty-five (35) feet;

10.

Oilfield identification signs.

(Ord. G-6077 § 177, 1994: Ord. G-5966 § 87, 1993: Ord. G-5861 § 21, 1992; Ord. G-5684 § 71, 1991: Prior code § 7085.11)

Landscaping shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 19.86 of this title.

(Prior code § 7085.12)

A.

All development in the M-3 district shall comply with the minimum requirements of Chapter 19.80 of this title.

B.

Development in the M-3 district shall comply with the interpretations and provisions of Chapter 19.08 of this title.

(Prior code § 7085.13)