Monterey County Unincorporated, California · General provision
21.28.070
Heavy IndustrialAll Monterey County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right5
Conditional / special use70
- caretaker unit
- reduction in setback requirements (10% or less)
- accessory structures and uses
- parking lots for adjoining commercial/retail
- small water system facilities (5-14 connections)
- accessory structures prior to main use
- hotels and motels
- animal hospitals
- parking lots
- offices less than 5,000 sq ft
- shops for tradesmen
- picture framing business
- shops of light commercial character
- stationery and office supply store
- storage, rental and sales of irrigation equipment
- manufacture of clothing
- day care center for on-site employees
- auto repair facilities
- body and fender repair
- vehicle painting
- storage garages
- additions to wireless communications facilities
- indoor, mixed-light, or nursery cannabis cultivation
- non-volatile cannabis manufacturing
- volatile cannabis manufacturing
- cannabis distribution facilities
- cannabis testing facilities
- bottling works
- carpenter shops
- contractors yards
- lumberyards
- bulk storage of oil and gasoline
- plumbing shops
- welding shops
- public utility structures and uses
- manufacture of clothing, handicraft products, printing, lithographing
- industrial manufacturing uses
- research and development laboratories
- chemical laboratories
- electronic products and instrument manufacturing
- non-retail dry cleaning plants and laundries
- wholesale stores, storage and warehouses
- offices in excess of 5,000 sq ft
- food processing, fish canning
- junk yards, wrecking yards, automobile dismantling yards
- manufacture of acid, cement, electric power, explosives, nuclear components, fireworks, pesticides, fertilizer, glue, gypsum, inflammable fluids or gases, incineration of garbage, refining of petroleum, tank farms, smelting of ores
- legal nonconforming use extension
- legal nonconforming use change
- commercial and noncommercial wind energy systems
- removal of minerals or natural materials
- assemblages of people (carnivals, festivals, races, circuses)
- agricultural processing plants
- all residential uses (gross sq ft not exceeding industrial use)
- water system facilities (15+ connections)
- zoos or zoological gardens
- public and quasi-public uses (churches, parks, playgrounds, schools, public safety, jails, etc.)
- ridgeline development
- development in Carmel Valley Floodplain
- alcohol/live entertainment within 200 ft of residential district
- commercial kennels
- wholesale and retail agricultural products
- propane distributorship
- wholesale distributors of petroleum products
- warehouses for agricultural products
- exploration for and removal of oil and gas
- open air sales
- auto sales
- funeral parlors
- wireless communications facilities
- other similar uses
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting 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.
Other
- General Development Plan required for large or complex developments
A General Development Plan shall be required prior to the establishment of any development in the Heavy Industrial district if the lot is in excess of one acre, or the development includes more than one use, or includes any form of subdivision.
- 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.
From the ordinance
The maximum structure height is thirty-five (35) feet... Building Site Coverage, Maximum: fifty (50) percent... Landscaping Requirements: All developments allowed shall have landscaping covering a minimum of ten (10) percent of the site area.