Purpose. The Santa Fe North District is intended to connect the City Center District and City of Vernon more generally to mixed-use environment present in the Arts and Warehouse Districts in the City of Los Angeles. The district is intended to prioritize creative production, production retail and live/work uses, often in adaptive reuse of legacy industrial buildings.

Standards and Nonconforming Uses. The regulation of uses and establishment of development standards and site planning standards set forth in the MU-N Zone are those deemed necessary to establish an environment prioritizing creative production, production retail, and live/work uses. The right to use and maintain legal nonconforming uses and legal nonconforming buildings and standards in the MU-N Zone and all overlay zones are governed by Section 17.64.010, "Legal nonconforming status."

Use Regulation. Tables 17.25.020(A) and 17.25.020(B) detail specific land uses within the MU-N Zone which are either encouraged, permitted of right, accessory, accessory or conditional, conditional, or prohibited.

Definitions: Definitions of use classifications are given in Chapter 17.16. Per Section 17.12.010, the Public Works Director may interpret and apply these use classifications to individual cases.

Commercial, Industrial, Warehouse Uses. Any commercial or industrial or warehouse use which is not included in Table 17.25.020(B) shall be permitted of right, conditionally permitted, or prohibited subject to all standards of the I Zone. Such uses include: research and development labs, commercial testing labs, computer/circuit board/semi-conductor manufacturing, research hospitals/labs (with medical waste), electric vehicle recharge facility, data center, specialty agriculture growing facility, auto body shops, gas dispensing facilities, metal plating shops, materials manufacturing, large manufacturing and assembly plants, industrial machinery, energy and utility operations, warehousing, logistics facility, and mini distribution center. Any commercial or industrial or warehouse use not included in Table 17.25.020(B) shall comply with parking, loading, intensity and approval standards of the I Zone, including Sections 17.22.020, 17.22.030, 17.22.035, 17.22.040, 17.22.050(B), 17.22.050(C), 17.22.080(A), 17.22.080(G), and Chapter 17.56. However, wrought iron fences are not permitted along Santa Fe Avenue. Such uses shall also be subject to standards governing minimum setbacks and ground/podium level open space as described in Table 17.25.020(A).

Junk or salvage business.

Public storage (including mini-storage) facilities.

Manure fertilizer business.

Contractor's yard.

Freight terminals, solid waste facilities, truck terminals, transportation-related use, or hazardous waste facilities located outside the T Overlay Zone.

Slaughtering plants located outside the S Overlay Zone.

Rendering plants located outside the R Overlay Zone.

Site Planning Standards and Nonconforming Uses. The following site planning standards given in Table 17.25.040(A) and illustrated in Figures 17.25.040(B) and 17.25.040(C) shall apply to all buildings, ancillary structures, land, uses, and businesses in the MU-N Zone. Legal nonconforming uses and legal nonconforming buildings or standards are required to comply with the site planning standards at the time of the occurrence of an event described in Table 17.64.030, Right to Continue Nonconforming Uses and Buildings, that requires compliance with the site planning standards.

Additional Development Standards. For additional development standards see Chapter 17.53, Incentives for Preservation, Creative Uses, and Affordable Housing, and Chapter 17.54, Mixed-Use Design Standards and Guidelines.