Chapter 18.16
MH – HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
Sections:
18.16.030 Conditional uses in the heavy industrial zone.
18.16.040 Screening and landscaping.
18.16.050 Performance standards.
18.16.090 Height of structures.
18.16.110 Off-street parking and loading facilities.
18.16.130 General provisions and exceptions.
18.16.010 Purposes.
The purpose of the MH heavy industrial district is to encourage the development of manufacturing, storage, processing, printing, assembly, sorting, wholesaling, and warehousing activities in close proximity to one another without encroachment or disturbance of incompatible land uses in areas designated for such uses in the Dixon General Plan.
Typically the MH district would be applied to areas where large acreage was available and where the unsightliness, noise, odor, traffic and hazards associated with certain industrial uses would not adversely impact residential and commercial uses. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 15-002 § 33; Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.020 Permitted uses.
The following uses shall be permitted:
A. All permitted uses in the ML district.
B. Heavy industrial and related uses, including but not limited to the following:
1. Boiler works;
2. Book binding;
3. Box factories and cooperage;
4. Breweries, distilleries and wineries;
5. Building materials manufacture and assembly;
6. Flour, feed and grain mills;
7. Grain elevators;
8. Gravel, rock and cement yards;
9. Hair, felt and feathers processing;
10. Leather and fur finishing and dyeing, not including tanning and curing;
11. Manufacture of the following: aircraft and aircraft accessories and parts; automobile, truck and trailer assembly, accessories and parts; batteries; business machines; can and metal containers; carpets and rugs; cement products, concrete mixing and batching; chemical products; provided no hazard of fire or explosion is created; clay products; corks; cotton ginning and cotton wadding and linter; firearms; food products; jute, hemp, sisal, and oakum products; glass and glass products; graphite products; machine tools; metal alloys and foil; motors and generators; paper products; paraffin products; plastics; porcelain products; railroad equipment; rubber products; steel products; solar products; stone products; and other similar uses found by the City Planning Commission to be similar to these uses;
12. Meat products processing and packaging not including glue and size manufacture;
13. Metal casting and foundries not including magnesium foundries;
14. Painting, enameling and lacquering shops;
15. Precious metals reduction, smelting and refining;
16. Railroad freight stations, repair shops and yards;
17. Sandblasting;
18. Storage, sorting, collecting or baling of iron, junk paper, rags or scrap metal within completely enclosed structures;
19. Textile bleaching;
20. Tobacco curing and processing;
21. Wholesale establishments, warehouses and distribution facilities;
22. Wood and lumber processing and woodworking.
C. Accessory structures and uses located on the same site as a permitted or conditional use.
D. Accessory and temporary uses subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.22 DMC.
E. Any permitted uses located within two hundred fifty (250) feet of an R district subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.25 DMC, Conditional Uses.
F. Temporary parking lots for events sponsored by a public agency.
G. Windmills in conjunction with a permitted or conditional use. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 15-002 § 34; Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.030 Conditional uses in the heavy industrial zone.
The following uses shall be permitted upon the granting of a use permit as provided in Chapter 18.25 DMC:
A. Airports and heliports;
B. Cement, lime, gypsum and plaster of Paris manufacture;
C. Charcoal, lampblack and fuel briquettes manufacture;
D. Chemical products manufacture;
E. Coal, coke and tar products manufacture;
F. Drop forges;
G. Dumps and slag piles;
H. Explosive and fireworks manufacture and storage;
I. Fertilizer manufacture;
J. Film manufacture;
K. Fish products processing and packaging;
L. Garbage dumps;
M. Gas manufacture or storage;
N. Gas and oil wells;
O. Gelatin, glue and size manufacture from animal or fish refuse;
P. Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants and similar industrial and household chemical compounds manufacture;
Q. Incineration or reduction or dumping of garbage, offal and dead animals;
R. Junkyards;
S. Lard manufacture;
T. Linoleum and oil cloth manufacture;
U. Magnesium foundries;
V. Manure, peat and topsoil processing and storage;
W. Metal and metal ores reduction, refining, smelting and alloying;
X. Motor vehicle wrecking yards;
Y. Paint manufacture including enamel, lacquer, shellac, turpentine and varnish;
Z. Paper mills;
AA. Petroleum and petroleum products refining including gasoline, kerosene, naphtha and oil;
BB. Petroleum and petroleum products storage;
CC. Rifle ranges;
DD. Rolling mills;
EE. Soap manufacture including fat rendering;
FF. Steam plants;
GG. Stockyards, slaughter of animals;
HH. Stone quarries, gravel pits, mines and stone mills;
II. Storage of used building materials;
JJ. Tallow manufacture;
KK. Tanneries and curing and storage of rawhides;
LL. Wood and bones distillation;
MM. Wood pulp and fiber reduction and processing. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5; Ord. 17-008 § 5.]
18.16.040 Screening and landscaping.
All uses shall provide screening and landscaping as required in Chapter 18.33 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.050 Performance standards.
All existing and proposed uses are subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.28 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.060 Required yards.
A. The minimum front yard shall be ten (10) feet, except when adjoining an R or A district and fronting on the same street the minimum front yard shall be fifteen (15) feet.
B. No side yard is required, except when adjoining an R or A district, the minimum side yard adjoining such district shall be fifty (50) feet.
C. The minimum rear yard shall be ten (10) feet, except when adjoining an R or A district, the minimum rear yard shall be fifty (50) feet.
D. One (1) foot shall be added to each side or rear yard for each two (2) feet of height or fraction thereof by which a portion of a structure within thirty (30) feet of the nearest side or rear property line exceeds fourteen (14) feet in height.
E. No use shall occupy a required front, side or rear yard within fifty (50) feet of an R or A district except landscaping, parking areas and driveways. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.070 Minimum lot size.
The minimum lot size shall be forty thousand (40,000) square feet. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 15-002 § 2; Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.080 Coverage.
The maximum site area covered by structures is forty percent (40%). [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.090 Height of structures.
No structure within two hundred (200) feet of an R or A district shall exceed forty (40) feet in height and no structure within five hundred (500) feet of an R or A district shall exceed seventy-five (75) feet in height. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.100 Signs.
No sign, display or any character shall be permitted except as prescribed in Chapter 18.24 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.110 Off-street parking and loading facilities.
Off-street parking facilities and off-street loading facilities shall be provided as prescribed in Chapter 18.27 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.120 Design review.
All uses shall be subject to design review as prescribed in Chapter 18.23 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]
18.16.130 General provisions and exceptions.
All uses shall be subject to the general provisions and exceptions prescribed in Chapter 18.20 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 5.]