Article 11 — "M-1" LIGHT MANUFACTURING ZONE

§ 12-32. M-1 Zone. Permitted Uses. ¶

The following uses shall be permitted in the M-1 Light Manufacturing Zone unless otherwise provided in this Chapter:

(1) Any use permitted in the C-2A, C-3 or C-S Zones, except convalescent or retirement homes, group homes, congregate housing, half-way houses, fraternities or sororities.
(2) Any kind of manufacture, processing or treatment of products other than those which may be obnoxious or offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, or other similar causes.
(3) Aircraft factory.
(4) Aluminum, brass, copper, steel or wrought iron fabrication plant. (Foundry prohibited).
(5) Automobile assembly, body and fender works, dismantling and used parts storage when operated or maintained wholly within a building. Automobile servicing and repair shall be subject to Section 12-16.6 . Other automobile services (including painting, body and fender work) when conducted within a fully enclosed building that has no openings (doors or windows) within twenty-five feet of any property zoned R-1, R-1 1/2, R-2, or R-3.
(6) Automobile reconditioning, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, battery manufacturing, and the like.
(7) Bakery, industrial.
(8) Boat building.
(9) Bottling plants.
(10) Brewery.
(11) Cabinet shop or furniture manufacture (carpenter shop).
(12) Car wash.
(13) Carpet and rug cleaning and dyeing works.
(14) Concrete products manufacture.
(15) Contractors' plant or storage yard.
(16) Creamery.
(17) Distribution plants.
(18) Draying, freighting or trucking yard or terminal.
(19) Electronics manufacturing.
(20) Flour mill.
(21) Garment manufacture.
(22) Ice and cold storage plants. (23) Laboratory, experimental, motion picture, testing. (24) Laundry, industrial. (25) Lumber yard and planing mill. (26) Machine shop. (27) Motion picture studio.
(28) Rubber processing including mixing or milling, extruding, molding and curing or products from natural and synthetic rubber, but not including rubber reclaiming.
(29) Sheet metal shop. (30) Shoe manufacture.
(31) Stone monument works.
(32) Storage space for transit and transportation equipment except freight classification yard. (33) Textile manufacture.
(34) Tire rebuilding, recapping and retreading. (35) Trailer rental and storage. (36) Truck repairing and overhauling.
(37) Vehicle Storage. The required parking spaces for vehicle storage must be distinctly separate from the vehicle storage area and must conform fully to all applicable parking lot site improvement requirements of Section 12-55.5 .
(38) Veterinaries and veterinary hospitals where all animals are housed or harbored at all times within a fully enclosed building.
(39) Kennels or other facilities with exterior animal pens, runs or enclosures. Such facilities shall be prohibited within one hundred fifty feet of any R zone property and shall be subject to Special Use Permit approval if located within three hundred feet of any R zone property.
(40) Pistol or rifle range (shooting gallery), only when located within a fully enclosed, ventilated and sound-insulated building, subject to Special Use Permit approval. Such facility shall be prohibited within one hundred fifty feet of any R or P zone property.
(41) Transitional housing as an ancillary use to adult vocational schools, technical schools, colleges, universities, police academies, aviation training facilities, National Guard or Military Reserve training facilities, veterans training facilities and similar uses shall be permitted subject to Special Use Permit approval and subject to the following conditions:
- (a) Certification/Accreditation. Training programs associated with transitional housing shall have the appropriate local, county, state, or Federal certifications and/or accreditations.
- (b) Minimum Number of Units. A minimum of one hundred units shall be provided.
- (c) Unit Sizes. Units shall have a minimum floor area of two hundred seventy-five square feet and a maximum floor area of five hundred square feet.
- (d) Sound Insulation. All units shall be sound insulated per the sound insulation requirements of Title 24 of the State of California Uniform Building Code and must adhere to applicable sections of the City's Noise Ordinance for multiple-family residential uses.
- (e) Cooking Facilities. The transitional housing facility shall contain common dinning hall or other common eating facility. Individual kitchens, kitchenettes, or cooking areas are allowed in the residential units.
- (f) Housing Use. All units shall be occupied by students/trainees enrolled the educational/training program only. The units shall not be rented or leased to anyone that is not a student and/or trainee in the educational and/or training facility program.
- (g) Common Recreation Room. A common recreation room shall be provide and maintained on site by the educational/training facility.
(42) Mortuaries. Mortuaries shall be subject to Special Use Permit approval when adjacent to residentially-developed or residentially-zoned property.
(43) Shopping centers subject to Special Use Permit approval and Section 12-16.2 (Shopping Center Regulations).
(44) Swap meets or flea markets shall be prohibited except if operated by, and on the premises of, a community nonprofit charitable organization not more than four times per year, subject to the issuance of a permit by the Permits and Licenses Committee per Article 3 of Chapter 8 of this Code.
(45) Ambulance dispatch facilities.
(46) Emergency shelter for the homeless.
(47) Towing Service. The required parking spaces for towing service must be distinctly separate from the vehicle storage area and must conform fully to all applicable parking lot site improvement requirements of Section 12-55.5 .

(48) Commercial Kitchens.

(Ord. 2346 7-3-79; Ord. 2493 2-5-84; Ord. 87-7 5-19-87; Ord. 93-29 12-14-93; Ord. 95-26 11-7-95; Ord. 02-31 11-12-02; Ord. 04-22 9-28-04; Ord. 08-20 8-26-08; Ord. 11-03 4-19-11; Ord. 12-02 2-2812; Ord. 12-21 10-30-12; Ord. 13-05 12-17-13; Ord. 20-02 11-5-19; Ord. 23-19, 9/26/2023)

§ 12-32.1. Building Height. ¶

No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall exceed six stories or seventy-five feet in height.

(Ord. 2346 7-3-79)

§ 12-32.2. Front Yard. ¶

No front yard shall be required, except as necessary to provide landscaped buffers along a street. (Ord. 2346 7-3-79)

§ 12-32.3. Side Yard. ¶

No side yard shall be required, except as necessary to provide landscaped buffers along a street. (Ord. 2346 7-3-79)

§ 12-32.4. Rear Yard. ¶

No rear yard shall be required.

(Ord. 2346 7-3-79)

§ 12-32.5. Residential Use Prohibited. ¶

No new residential structure shall be constructed nor any existing residential structure enlarged in the M-1 Zone, except as permitted by Section 12-32.7 . (Ord. 2346 7-3-79; Ord. 88-4 3-1-88)

§ 12-32.6. Signs. ¶

It shall be unlawful, after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Section, to erect or structurally alter any sign, or to maintain any sign which has been erected or structurally altered after said effective date, in the M-1 Light Manufacturing Zone, except as permitted in Article 23 of this Chapter.

(Ord. 1957 8-30-68; Ord. 1520 5-3-60)

§ 12-32.7. Caretaker's Unit Permitted. ¶

One residential caretaker's unit with a maximum of eight hundred fifty square feet; provided, that the legally established use requires the continuous supervision by a caretaker or superintendent and the residence is occupied only by such persons. (Ord. 88-4 3-1-88)

§ 12-32.8. Transit Oriented Development. ¶

Those M-1 (Light Manufacturing) properties within the area defined by the Transit Oriented Development Plans shall be subject to the development standards and Design Guidelines contained therein. In the event of a conflict between the TOD plan provisions and the M-1 zone provisions, the TOD plan shall govern.

(Ord. 22-03 12-14-21)