Monterey County Unincorporated, California · General provision
Chapter 21.26, Sections 21.26.040, 21.26.050, 21.26.060, 21.26.070, 21.26.080
Light IndustrialAll Monterey County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right4
- Change of light industrial uses within a structure (no change in nature/intensity)
- Water system facilities (wells, storage tanks) serving 4 or fewer service connections
- Cultivation, cutting and removal of Christmas trees
- Other uses of a similar character, density and intensity
Conditional / special use63
- Manufacture of clothing
- Interior decorating business
- Picture framing business
- Craft shop (art, jewelry, silverware, ceramics, leather goods, toys, bookbinding, printing, lithography)
- Other light industries of a similar character (no undue odor, dust, smoke, noise)
- Reduction in setback requirements (10% or less)
- Parking lots for adjoining commercial/retail use
- Mini-warehouse facilities
- One caretaker unit (on-site security)
- Accessory retail sales (≤25% of floor area)
- Warehouses/open air storage for boats, trailers, marine/recreation equipment
- Accessory structures/uses prior to main use
- Stands for sale of agricultural products grown on premises
- Day care centers
- Auto repair facilities
- Shops for tradesmen (plumbers, electricians, furniture makers, appliance repair)
- Contractors yards and offices
- Shops of light commercial character within a structure
- Small water system facilities (5-14 service connections)
- Service station
- Accessory structures/uses appurtenant to permitted use
- Photography studio
- Stationery and office supply store
- Storage, rental and sale of irrigation equipment
- Additions to existing wireless communications facilities
- Indoor, mixed-light, or nursery cannabis cultivation
- Non-volatile cannabis manufacturing
- Cannabis distribution facilities
- Cannabis testing facilities
- Executive and professional offices
- Research laboratories (no undue odor, smoke, noise)
- Nurseries and greenhouses
- Storage warehouses, furniture manufacturing, finish paper products
- Ridgeline development
- Carpentry, paint, paperhanging, plumbing, sheet-metal shops (all activity within structure)
- Animal hospitals
- Commercial kennel
- Other light industrial uses similar to those listed
- Legal nonconforming use extended throughout structure
- Legal nonconforming use changed to similar/more restricted nature
- Commercial and noncommercial wind energy systems
- Community directional and informational signs
- Removal of minerals or natural materials for commercial purposes
- Assemblages of people (carnivals, festivals, races, circuses ≤10 days, no permanent facilities)
- Agricultural processing plants
- Hotels, motels, restaurants, visitor serving facilities
- Propane distributorship and sales/services of appliances
- Water system facilities (15+ service connections)
- Contractors plants and storage yards (agricultural servicing)
- Other uses of similar character, intensity, density
- All residential uses (gross sqft residential ≤ gross sqft industrial)
- Zoos or zoological gardens
- Public and quasi-public uses (churches, parks, playgrounds, public safety, jails, etc.)
- Alcoholic beverage service, amusement/recreation, live entertainment (within 200 ft of residential district)
- Development in Carmel Valley Floodplain
- Wholesale distributors of petroleum products, contractors yards, welding shops
- Wholesale stores, storage and warehouses
- Chemical laboratories, electronic products and instrument manufacturing
- Food processing, fish canning
- Processing for market of poultry, rabbits, small animals
- Warehouses for collection, packaging, distribution of agricultural products
- Exploration for and removal of oil and gas
- Wireless communications facilities
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting must comply 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
Other
- General Development Plan required for lots >1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones., multiple uses, or subdivision
A General Development Plan shall be required prior to the establishment of any development in the Light Industrial district if there is no prior approved General Development Plan and if: 1. The lot is in excess of one acre; or 2. The development proposed includes more than one use; or 3. The development includes any form of subdivision
- All manufacturing/fabrication operations 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/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.
- Residential use gross sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. cannot exceed industrial use gross sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
All residential uses provided that the gross square footage of the residential use does not exceed the gross square footage of the industrial use
Parking
- Parking regulations per Chapter 21.58
All parking shall be established pursuant to Chapter 21.58.
Signage
- Sign regulations per Chapter 21.60
Signing for all development shall be established pursuant to Chapter 21.60.
From the ordinance
The maximum structure height is thirty-five (35) feet... Building Site Coverage, Maximum: fifty (50) percent... landscaping covering a minimum of ten (10) percent of the site area...