To provide a district exclusively for sound industrial development wherein manufacturing and other industries can locate and operate away from the restricting influences on non-industrial uses while maintaining an environment free from offensive or objectionable noise, dust, odor, and other nuisances.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64)

The following structures and uses are permitted in the GI District:

A.

Manufacturing, processing, fabricating, or assembly operations not otherwise listed as conditional uses in this article;

B.

Wholesale business, storage and warehousing;

C.

Laboratory type research and development;

D.

Railroad yards, freight stations, and trucking or motor terminals;

E.

Public utility buildings, substations and service yards;

F.

Automobile, truck, trailer, boat, or heavy equipment repair or service establishments;

G.

Brick or pottery factories, and stone or monument works;

H.

Parking lots and garages;

I.

Family child care homes, within residential structures, in accordance with the provisions of Section 39.3.

J.

Any use not explicitly listed in this Section is prohibited, except that the Zoning Administrator may permit any use not listed herein if the use is determined to be a similar and/or compatible use to any use herein and meets the purpose and intent of the Zoning District.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64: Ord. 1130.275, eff. 2-27-91: Ord. 1130.310 § 53, eff. 4-12-01: Ord. 1130.320, eff. 8-13-03: Ord. 1130.327 § 8, eff. 12-1-03)

(Ord. No. 1130-890, § 4(Exh. A), 8-26-24)

The following structures and uses are permitted in the GI District when accessory to a use permitted under Sections 19.2 and 19.4:

A.

Accessory uses and structures customarily appurtenant to a permitted use;

B.

Sales incidental to an industrial use without any exterior advertising or display;

C.

Employees' restaurants or cafeterias not open to the general public;

D.

Child care centers if the facilities are in conjunction with adjoining businesses and primarily serve the employees of such businesses;

E.

Offices.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64: Ord. 1130.275, eff. 2-27-91: Ord. 1130.310 § 54, eff. 4-12-01: Ord. 1130.327 § 14, eff. 12-1-03)

The following structures and uses are permitted in the GI District subject to first securing a use permit therefor:

A.

Automobile or metal appliance manufacturing or assembly plants, structural steel fabricating shops, machine shops, forges, and foundries;

B.

Automobile wrecking yards, and salvage or war surplus yards;

C.

Asphalt or concrete batching plants, and sand, dirt, gravel, rock, or fill businesses;

D.

Manufacturing uses involving the primary production of the following products from raw materials: Acids, ammonia, carbide, analine dyes, animal glue and size, carbon black, bond black, caustic soda, charcoal, cellulose, chlorine, coal, coke or tar products, creosote, explosives, fertilizers, gelatin, gypsum, hydrogen, oxygen, industrial alcohol, lime, matches, nitrates of an explosive nature, nitric, phosphoric, picric, or sulphuric acids, paint, plaster of paris, plastic materials, synthetic resins, potash, pyroxylin, rayon, yarn, rubber, soaps, and turpentine;

E.

The following processes: Nitrating of cotton or other materials; magnesium foundry storage or handling; reduction of refining of petroleum products such as gasoline, kerosene, naptha, and oil; distillation or reduction of wood or bones; storage, curing, or tanning of raw, green, or salted hides and skins;

F.

Poultry dressing, fish or meat packing houses, stock yards, slaughter houses, and hog raising;

G.

Storage, testing, or handling of explosives, explosives products, liquefied or inflammable gases;

H.

Breweries and distilleries of liquors; perfume or vinegar manufacturing; sugar refineries; large scale bleaching, cleaning, or dyeing establishments;

I.

Public or quasi-public uses;

J.

Restaurants and drive-through eating establishments;

K.

Any other use not otherwise listed in this Section, which is determined by the Zoning Administrator, after a public hearing, to be a similar and/or compatible use to any conditionally permitted uses in this Section, and is consistent with the purpose and intent of this Article;

L.

Child care centers if the facilities are not in conjunction with adjoining businesses or do not primarily serve the employees of such businesses;

M.

Electronic equipment facilities.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64: Ord. 1130.186, eff. 12-6-78: Ord. 1130.189, eff. 2-21-79: Ord. 1130.275, eff. 2-27-91: Ord. 1130.310 § 55, eff. 4-12-01: Ord. 1130.327 § 14, eff. 12-1-03)

(Ord. No. 1130-367, § 5, 6-13-16; Ord. No. 1130-890, § 4(Exh. A), 8-26-24)

No structure shall exceed one hundred (100) feet in height.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64)

The minimum building site area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. Additional minimum building site area requirements greater than those specified in this section shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 32.2, "Supplementary Lot Area Requirements for Sloping Sites," under the conditions therein specified.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64: Ord. 1130.130, eff. 5-26-71)

The minimum average lot width shall be sixty (60) feet. Every lot shall have a minimum of thirty (30) feet of frontage on a public street.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64)

Not more than seventy percent (70%) of the lot shall be covered by buildings.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64)

The following yards are required:

A.

Front Yards. None required.

B.

Side Yards. None required, except when any lot abuts any R District, it shall have a side yard with a minimum width of ten (10) feet on the side abutting such R District.

C.

Rear Yards. Rear yards shall have a minimum depth of fifteen (15) feet.

(Ord. 1130, eff. 7-10-64)

A maximum floor area ratio applies to the following uses; however, there is no maximum floor area ratio for the combination of all uses on a site.

A.

For offices, the maximum floor area ratio is ten percent (10%).

B.

For electronic equipment facilities, the maximum floor area ratio is seventy percent (70%). An additional thirty percent (30%) bonus FAR may be awarded by the Planning Commission for buildings with modulated scale based on the following criteria. The building's massing shall be broken up by measures such as building articulation, a building step back at the second and third floors on facades with frontage on a street or Redwood Creek, windows on facades with frontage on a street or Redwood Creek, and substantial setbacks from adjacent streets provided the setbacks contain permanently-maintained trees.

C.

Eligible projects may request an FAR bonus as described in Article 32.4: Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Bonus.

(Ord. 1130.310 § 56, eff. 4-12-01)

(Ord. No. 1130-890, § 4(Exh. A), 8-26-24)

A nonconforming structure existing on April 1, 2001, may remain, subject to the provisions of Article 33. Such a facility shall be permitted to be remodeled, improved or replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, provided that such remodeling, improvement or replacement shall not result in increased floor area, or any increase in the existing degree of noncompliance. Remodeling, improvement or replacement of medical, professional, general business or administrative office uses of a size exceeding ten thousand (10,000) square feet in the GI District that are deemed grandfathered pursuant to this section, shall not result in increased floor area devoted to such office uses.

For purposes of this section, an existing use is defined as:

A.

A use which was being conducted on April 1, 2001; or

B.

A use not being conducted on April 1, 2001, if the use was temporarily discontinued due to a vacancy of six (6) months or less before April 1, 2001.

If a grandfathered use deemed existing pursuant to this section ceases and thereafter remains discontinued for twelve (12) consecutive months, it shall be considered abandoned and may be replaced only by a conforming use.

(Ord. 1130.310 § 57, eff. 4-12-01: Ord. 1130.336 § 16 (part), eff. 1-5-06)

A minimum of ten percent (10%) of each lot shall be pervious area, to be composed of landscaping, vegetated open space, or permeable paving materials, consistent with the provisions of Section 32.12 of the Zoning Ordinance, as that section may be amended from time to time. All development is also subject to the requirements of Chapter 27A (Stormwater Treatment Measures and Maintenance Program) of the Municipal Code, as that chapter may be amended from time to time.

(Ord. 1130.336 § 16 (part), eff. 1-5-06)