§ 4.2.27. Light Industrial (M-1) classification.

A.

Intent of classification. The Light Industrial classification is intended to provide land for primarily the manufacture of small articles and products which do not involve the use of any materials, processes, or machinery or production of a product likely to be detrimental to nearby or adjacent residential or business property. Phased developments are allowed. Consideration shall be given to transportation facilities (rail and highway) traffic circulation, parking, utility needs, aesthetics, and compatibility.

B.

Permitted uses:

Agriculture, including all necessary structures and appurtenances as an interim land use

Airport, general aviation

Automobile repair, paint, and body

Automobile, truck or trailer rental

Awning and canvas, repair

Bakery, industrial, commercial

Bank, credit union, financial and loan

Blacksmith shop

Blue printing, photo-stating, photo engraving, printing, publishing, and bookbindery

Bottled gas, retail or wholesale

Canned, frozen, and preserved fruits, vegetables and food specialties, manufacturing, compounding, processing or treatment of

Carpet, rug, and upholstery cleaning

Clocks and watches, manufacture or assembly

Coffins, manufacture or assembly

Computer maintenance and repair

Convenience store, gas station

Daycare, child

Dairy products manufacturing or processing

Distribution and warehousing facility

Fitness centers, gymnasiums

Feed and fertilizer, retail and wholesale

General construction industries relating to the building industry, such as general contractors, electrical contractors, plumbing contractors, equipment rental yards, etc.

Heliport

Hotels, motels

Ice storage facility

Limerock, phosphate, clay processing

Mail and parcel delivery, private

Meat products, prepared

Metal buffing, plating, polishing, sandblasting

Mortuary

Musical instruments, manufacture, or assembly

Newspaper printing plant

Pallet Repair

Parking of commercial vehicles

Pest control agency, supplies

Printing, photoengraving, publishing, and bookbinding

Process bottled water

Professional office

Radio/TV broadcasting facilities

Research activities, including research laboratories, developmental laboratories, and compatible light manufacturing such as, but not limited to, the following: Biochemical, Chemical, Electronics, Film and photography, Medical and dental, Metallurgy, Pharmaceutical and X-ray

Restaurants

Retail sales of products manufactured on site

School-vocational Shoes, manufacture, or assembly

Shops performing custom work such as, air conditioning, cabinet, carpentry, computers including software, heating, irrigation, painting, pipes, plumbing, pumps, sheet metal, satellite dish, sharpening, welding including maintenance, and repair

Signs, manufacture, or assembly

Sports facilities which may include archery range, golf course or driving range, horse racetrack, tennis facility, racquet ball facility or swimming club facility

Storage, mini-warehouses

Upholstery shop, including repair

C.

Special Uses (requiring permits):

Adult entertainment

Agricultural laboratory

Airport, private

Composting of residuals, sewage sludge and food waste

Composting of wood products, manure and leaves

Farm products, packing, crating and shipping

Freight terminal

Garbage transfer station

Gas meter facility and supply lines, high-pressure, except where such permits are pre-empted by state or federal regulations

Hospital

Optical goods, manufacture, or assembly

Painting and varnishing

Sewage treatment plants with an inflow exceeding 5,000 gallons per day

Sports arena

Sprayfields or other type of effluent disposal area when application rate exceeds 5,000 gallons per day, if allowed by law

Water wellfields

D.

Development Standards:

Maximum Density Permitted: 1 Security Dwelling Unit

Minimum Lot Area: None

Minimum Lot Width: 200 feet

Maximum Building Height: 50 feet

Maximum Floor Area: 0.75

Minimum Direct Access: None

E.

Setbacks:

Minimum Front Setback: 40 feet

Minimum Rear Setback: 25 feet

Minimum Side Setback: 25 feet

Accessory Structures: gas pumps or islands require a 25 feet setback; gas pump canopies may protrude 10 feet into a required setback.

F.

Special Requirements:

(1)

All setbacks shall be measured from the outside wall of buildings or structures and from the concrete curb surrounding gas pumps; however, eaves, roof overhangs, or pilasters may protrude two feet into a required setback.

(2)

Areas used for parking of commercial vehicles, or storage of vehicles, or outdoor storage shall be screened, buffered or fenced to screen said areas from view from access streets, freeways and incompatible adjacent properties. Such screening shall form a complete opaque screen up to a point eight feet in vertical height.

G.

Buffering Requirements: The table below is a modified version of Table 6.8-2 of the Land Development Code and provides the type of buffer required between a proposed use and an existing use, or in the absence of an existing use. Refer to Section 6.8.6 for additional requirements.

Land Use Buffer Requirements		Existing or Permitted Land Use
		AG	SFR	MF	COM	IND	PUB	ROW
Proposed Use	COM	D	B	B	-	E	C	C
	PUB	E	B	C	C	C	-	C
	IND	B	B	B	B	-	B	C/D*
	AG	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

 

*D Type Buffer if residential adjacent to ROW

Screening/Landscape Buffer Requirements for every 100 Lineal Feet
Buffer Type	Required Width	Number of Trees	Shrubs & Ground Coverage	Wall Required	Additional Requirement/Notes
B	20'	2 shade/3 understory	50%	yes
C	15'	2 shade/3 understory	50%	no	Shrubs and groundcover excludes turfgrass and must have a min. height of 3 ft. within 1 yr. of planting
D	15'	2 shade/3 understory	25%	yes
E	5'	4 shade trees	shrubs only	no	Shrubs shall be planted in a double-staggered row and reach a maintained height of 6 ft. in 3 yrs.

 

(Ord. No. 17-08, § 2(Exh. A), 4-11-2017)