Redwood City, California · General provision

Article 19

General IndustrialAll Redwood City districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 0 ftMin width 60 ftMIN LOT AREA20,000 sq ftMIN FRONTAGE30 ftMAX HEIGHT100 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE70%MAX FAR0.1
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Permitted by right9

Conditional / special use13

  • Automobile or metal appliance manufacturing or assembly plants
  • Automobile wrecking yards, and salvage or war surplus yards
  • Asphalt or concrete batching plants, and sand, dirt, gravel, rock, or fill businesses
  • Manufacturing uses involving the primary production of acids, ammonia, carbide, etc.
  • The following processes: nitrating of cotton, magnesium foundry, etc.
  • Poultry dressing, fish or meat packing houses, stock yards, slaughter houses, and hog raising
  • Storage, testing, or handling of explosives, explosives products, liquefied or inflammable gases
  • Breweries and distilleries of liquors; perfume or vinegar manufacturing; sugar refineries; large scale bleaching, cleaning, or dyeing establishments
  • Public or quasi-public uses
  • Restaurants and drive-through eating establishments
  • Any other use not otherwise listed in this Section, which is determined by the Zoning Administrator, after a public hearing, to be a similar and/or compatible use
  • Child care centers if the facilities are not in conjunction with adjoining businesses or do not primarily serve the employees of such businesses
  • Electronic equipment facilities

Accessory5

  • Accessory uses and structures customarily appurtenant to a permitted use
  • Sales incidental to an industrial use without any exterior advertising or display
  • Employees' restaurants or cafeterias not open to the general public
  • Child care centers if the facilities are in conjunction with adjoining businesses and primarily serve the employees of such businesses
  • Offices

Extracted standards

3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

From the ordinance

No structure shall exceed one hundred (100) feet in height.
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