Chapter 18.15
ML – LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

Sections:

18.15.010    Purposes.

18.15.020    Permitted uses.

18.15.030    Conditional uses.

18.15.040    Screening and landscaping.

18.15.050    Performance standards.

18.15.060    Required yards.

18.15.070    Minimum lot size.

18.15.080    Coverage.

18.15.090    Height of structures.

18.15.100    Signs.

18.15.110    Off-street parking and loading facilities.

18.15.120    Design review.

18.15.130    General provisions and exceptions.

18.15.010 Purposes.

The purpose of the ML light industrial district is to provide an environment conducive to the development of specialized manufacturing, research institutions and administrative facilities, all of a nonnuisance type in locations as indicated in the land use element of the Dixon General Plan. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.020 Permitted uses.

The following uses shall be permitted:

A. Light industrial and related uses, including but not limited to the following:

1. Assembling of small electric equipment such as the following: lighting fixtures, irons, fans, toasters, and electric toys, refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and similar home appliances;

2. Blacksmith shops; machine shops not involving the use of drop hammers, automatic screw machines or punch presses with a rated capacity of over twenty (20) tons; canning and packing of foods and food products, not including fish and meat products, pickles, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast or refining or rendering of fats or oils; metal finishing and plating; small boat building; welding shops; provided these uses shall not be located closer than two hundred fifty (250) feet to an R district;

3. Bottling works; transit stations; cold storage plants; dairy products plants; freight forwarding terminals; laboratories; bioscience research and development (including research and experimental support); manufacturing, processing and distribution, and all ancillary or incidental activities related to the foregoing; lumber yards, not including planing or saw mills; commercial printing, such as silk screening and newspaper production; lithographing and engraving; public utility and public service pumping stations, power stations, drainage ways and structures, water storage tanks, communication equipment buildings, storage yards for commercial vehicles; textile, knitting and hosiery mills; transit yards; trucking terminals; warehouses; petroleum bulk storage; provided this use shall not be located closer than five hundred (500) feet to an R district;

4. Manufacturing, assembling, compounding, packaging and processing of articles or merchandise including the following: doors, trusses and windows, including incidental woodworking, when conducted within a completely enclosed structure; mattresses, furniture, ice, cosmetics, drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, ceramic products, such as pottery and small glazed tile; cutlery, hardware and hand tools; die and pattern making; metal stamping and extrusion of small products such as costume jewelry, pins and needles; electric and neon signs, commercial advertising structures, including their maintenance; light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating equipment; medical and dental instruments, orthopedic and medical appliances, optical goods, watches and clocks, electronics equipment, precision instruments, musical instruments, cameras and photographic equipment;

5. Accessory structures located on the same site as a permitted or conditional use.

B. Restaurants without drive-through.

C. Offices, retail stores and watchmen’s living quarters all incidental to and on the same site with an industrial use.

D. Parking lots improved in conformity with the standards prescribed in Chapter 18.27 DMC.

E. Wholesale establishments, warehouses and distribution centers.

F. Accessory and temporary uses, subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.22 DMC.

G. Temporary parking lots for events sponsored by a public agency.

H. Emergency shelters.

I. Service stations.

J. Windmills in conjunction with a permitted or conditional use. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 15-002 § 31; Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.030 Conditional uses.

The following uses shall be permitted upon the granting of a use permit in accord with the provisions of Chapter 18.25 DMC:

A. Any use listed in DMC 18.15.020 which is located within two hundred fifty (250) feet of an R district.

B. Outdoor storage when completely screened from view from a public street or highway. Such storage area must be accessory to a permitted use.

C. Public buildings and grounds.

D. Lumber yards including planing or saw mills. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 15-002 § 32; Ord. 17-004 § 4; Ord. 17-008 § 4.]

18.15.040 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 § 4.]

18.15.050 Performance standards.

All existing and proposed uses shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.28 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.060 Required yards.

A. The minimum front yard shall be ten (10) feet except when adjoining an A or R district and fronting on the same street, in which case the minimum front yard shall be fifteen (15) feet.

B. The minimum side yard shall be zero (0) feet, except when adjoining an A or R district, in which case the minimum side yard shall be fifty (50) feet.

C. Minimum rear yard: ten (10) feet, except when adjoining an A or R district the minimum rear yard shall be fifty (50) feet.

D. One (1) foot shall be added to each side yard 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 except landscaping, parking areas and driveways. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.070 Minimum lot size.

The minimum lot size shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.080 Coverage.

The maximum site area covered by structures shall be forty percent (40%). [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.090 Height of structures.

No structure shall exceed forty (40) feet in height. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.100 Signs.

No sign or display of any character shall be permitted except as provided in Chapter 18.24 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.110 Off-street parking and loading facilities.

Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided as prescribed in Chapter 18.27 DMC. [Ord. 13-008 § 2; Ord. 13-009 § 2(1); Ord. 17-004 § 4.]

18.15.120 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 § 4.]

18.15.130 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 § 4.]