Monterey County Unincorporated, California · General provision
21.24.020
Agricultural IndustrialAll Monterey County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right3
- Water system facilities (wells and storage tanks) serving four or fewer service connections
- Cultivation, cutting and removal of Christmas trees
- Other uses of a similar character, density and intensity
Conditional / special use40
- Small water system facilities (wells and storage tanks) serving five to fourteen service connections
- Sale of hay and grain not grown on the premises
- Water well drilling businesses
- Rental and sales of irrigation equipment
- Animal hospitals
- Kennels
- Additions to existing, approved wireless communications facilities
- Indoor, mixed-light, or nursery cannabis cultivation
- Non-volatile cannabis manufacturing
- Cannabis distribution facilities
- Cannabis testing facilities
- Other uses of a similar character, density and intensity (admin permit)
- Contractors plants and storage yards
- Warehouses for the collection, packaging and distribution of agricultural and horticultural products
- Wholesale and retail establishments distributing materials and products essential to agriculture and farming operations, except manure
- Sales and repair services for agricultural equipment
- Offices accessory to permitted on-site uses not to exceed twenty-five percent of the overall floor area
- Agricultural processing plants
- Processing for market of poultry, rabbits and small animals
- Manufacture of insecticides and pesticides
- Fertilizer plants and yards
- Public and quasi-public structures and uses and public utility structures and uses
- Other uses of a similar character, intensity and density (use permit)
- Water system facilities including wells and storage tanks serving fifteen or more service connections
- Legal nonconforming use of a portion of a structure extended throughout the structure
- Legal nonconforming use changed to a use of a similar or more restricted nature
- Zoos or zoological gardens
- Public and quasi-public uses including churches, parks, playgrounds, public safety facilities, public utility facilities, jails, rehabilitation centers and detention facilities
- Any lot or establishment where alcoholic beverages are served, commercial place of amusement or recreation or any place where live entertainment is provided within two hundred feet of the boundary of a residential district
- Removal of minerals and natural materials for commercial purposes
- Ridgeline development
- Wholesale stores, storage and warehouses
- Chemical laboratories, electronic products and instrument manufacturing
- Food processing, fish canning and other uses of a similar character
- Propane distributorships, sales and service of appliances and related equipment
- Research laboratories
- Wholesale distributors of petroleum products, contractors yards, welding shops and other uses of a similar character
- Trucking operations
- The exploration for and the removal of oil and gas
- Wireless communications facilities
Accessory4
- One caretaker unit for the purpose of providing on-site security
- Accessory structures and uses appurtenant to any permitted use
- Day care center for use of on-site employees and employees of developments on the same lot or subdivision
- Employee housing accessory to a permitted use
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting compliance with Design Guidelines
All exterior lighting shall be consistent with the Design Guidelines for Exterior Lighting adopted by the Board of Supervisors pursuant to Section 21.63.020, unless exempt under Section 21.63.020.D.
Other
- Manufacturing operations conducted within structures
All manufacturing and fabrication operations shall be conducted within structures.
- Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for equipment and material storage6 ft
All equipment and material storage areas shall be screened by solid walls, fences, or by adequate plantings of not less than six feet in height.
- Vehicle trip reduction thresholds
The following types of development are subject to Section 21.64.250 (Regulations for the Reduction of Vehicle Trips) of this Title: a. Any residential development of twenty-five (25) or more units; or b. Any new or expanded commercial or industrial development which will employ fifty (50) or more persons; or c. Any new or expanded commercial or industrial development of twenty-five thousand (25,000) gross square feet or more.
Signage
- Sign regulations per Chapter 21.60
Signing for all development shall be established pursuant to Chapter 21.60.
From the ordinance
The regulations of in this Chapter shall apply in all 'AI' Districts and shall be subject to Chapter 21.62 (Height and Setback Exceptions) of this Title.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"accessory_uses": [
"Retail sales which are accessory and incidental to the main uses permitted in this Section; provided, that the sales area does not exceed twenty-five percent of the floor area"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"All residential uses provided that the gross square footage of the residential use does not exceed the gross square footage of the industrial use"
]
}
}