Chapter 18.44
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right9
- Agriculture
- Bakeries and creameries
- Cabinet shops and lumber storage yards, including wholesale and incidental retail sales
- Electrical, plumbing, heating, welding, sheet metal and machine parts and shops, if conducted within a completely enclosed building or screened outdoor yard area
- Equipment storage, rental or repair yards, including contractor storage yards or building materials yards if conducted within a completely enclosed building or screened outdoor yard area
- Truck terminals, including truck repair facilities
- Assemblage or packaging of products from previously prepared materials such as aluminum, cloth, plastic, paper, leather, precious or semi-precious metals or stones
- Minor antennas meeting the requirements of Sections 18.119.240 through 18.119.260
- Telecommunication facilities that meet the performance standards specified in Section 18.119.200
Conditional / special use11
- Laundries and cleaning and dyeing plants
- Wrecking, auto dismantling, salvage and recycling or junkyards
- Manufacturing or commercial processing of asphalt and asphalt products, building materials, cement, concrete, sand and rock, minerals, mineral ores or similar products or materials
- Agricultural processing plants and facilities, including bakeries and creameries employing more than twenty-five full-time equivalent employees, wineries or other alcoholic beverage plants; fruit and vegetable packing plants, dehydrators or canneries
- Limited professional and personal service commercial uses, such as contractor's showrooms, as an accessory use to other allowed uses listed within Section 18.44.020
- Educational and training facilities which support the above-identified types of uses
- Caretaker residences
- Other uses which, in the opinion of the approving officer or body, are consistent with the intent of this district and similar in their environmental effects to those of any of the above-listed uses
- Telecommunication facilities that do not meet one or more of the performance standards specified in Section 18.119.200
- Emergency shelters, providing that all the conditions set forth in Section 18.104.065 are met and that applicable conditions in the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan and the Napa County Airport Industrial Area Specific Plan are met
- Commercial renewable energy facilities
Extracted standards
21 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Watercourse protection
Any use within the GI district shall be conducted in compliance with the watercourse protection standards set forth in the Napa County Floodplain Management Ordinance (commencing at Section 16.04.010) or the standards set forth in any specific plan applicable to the lot or lots on which the use is conducted, whichever is more restrictive.
Lighting
- Lighting direction
All lights shall be directed so as to not cause off-site glare.
Other
- Automated irrigation required
All landscaped areas shall have an automated irrigation system to ensure that plantings are adequately watered.
- Drainage plan required
No building permit or use permit shall be issued or tentative map approved, whichever comes first, until a drainage plan for the lot or lots involved in the project has been approved by the public works director.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. tree ratio0.03 trees per ft
The required front yard landscaped area shall include trees at a ratio of one per every thirty feet of parcel frontage.
- Hazardous materials reporting
A list of all the hazardous, toxic, highly flammable and/or explosive materials present at each facility shall be provided by the operator of said facility to the director of environmental health, the fire chief, and the agency providing fire protection to the subject property prior to the start of operations.
- Landscape setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. adjacent to IP districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.30 ft
Where the use is on a parcel adjacent to or across the street from one or more parcels within the IP district, a minimum landscape setback of thirty feet is required.
- Landscape setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. adjacent to residential10 ft
A minimum ten-foot landscaped side or rear yard shall be required where a lot in a GI district adjoins a residentially zoned parcel.
- Loading space dimensions
Each loading space shall be at least twelve feet by forty feet, with fourteen feet of vertical clearance.
- Maximum noise level near IP districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.70 dBa
Noises collectively measurable at the property line of the former lot nearest to the latter lots shall not exceed seventy dBa for more than thirty minutes in any hour.
- Minimum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. landscaping depth20 ft
A minimum of twenty feet of the required front yard setback, as established by subsection (A) of Section 18.44.060, including exterior lots, shall be permanently landscaped in accordance with these standards.
- Minimum loading spaces1 spaces
Buildings of at least ten thousand square feet of gross floor area shall have a minimum of one off-street loading space, plus one additional space for each forty thousand square feet of gross floor area.
- Parking lot tree ratio
All parking lots shall be landscaped at the ratio of one tree per six parking spaces for double-loaded stalls and one tree per three parking spaces for single-loaded stalls.
- Public sewer connection required
Connection to a public sewer, as that term is defined in Section 13.16.290, shall be required prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy or the commencement of a use not requiring a certificate of occupancy.
- Spill containment plan
A spill containment and cleanup plan, acceptable to and approved by the director of environmental health, shall be submitted to the director of planning by the operator of any facility using toxic materials prior to the start of operations.
- Street improvements
All roads and streets necessary to provide such frontage shall be dedicated and shall, along with all public roads fronting a given lot, be improved in accordance with current Napa County Road and Street Standards, or any applicable specific plan, whichever is more restrictive.
- Tree planting distances
Trees shall be planted not less than twenty-five feet from the beginning of curb returns at intersections, and not less than ten feet from streetlights, utility poles, fire hydrants and driveways. Trees shall be planted a minimum of six feet behind a curb, and lower branches of established trees shall be trimmed up to a minimum of thirteen feet above the road surface.
Parking
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. screen heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3.5 ft
All parking shall be screened from existing or proposed streets and adjacent properties through the use of a permanently maintained evergreen hedge, view-obscuring wall or fence, raised planter, planted berm or the like approved by the director. The minimum height shall be forty-two inches.
- On-street parking prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
On-street parking shall not be permitted on any public streets.
Setback
- Building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. adjacent to IP districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.65 ft
Where a lot in the GI district adjoins or is across the street from one or more parcels in the IP district, a minimum building setback of sixty-five feet shall be required. If a street intervenes, this setback is reduced by fifteen feet.
Signage
- Sign standards
Signs shall be in accordance with the standards set forth in Chapter 18.116.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the GI zoning district is to accommodate and encourage general industrial development in the county by providing visually contained areas where land use and environmental impacts can be minimized for industrial operations requiring relatively low land costs and reasonably good accessibility and not adaptable to the more stringent criteria associated with IP-zoned areas.
Parking requirements
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"company_vehicles": "1 space per vehicle"
}Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Storage, warehousing and related wholesale and incidental retail sales of goods and nonvehicular equipment, whether conducted outdoors or within buildings, including facilities for the aging, and storage subsequent to aging, of alcoholic beverages, except that no more than ten percent of the gross floor area shall be devoted to incidental retail sales activities"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Heavy manufacturing, which shall include the manufacture of automobiles, tractors, farm equipment, trucks, railway equipment, aircraft, cranes, electrical generating or transmission equipment; the processing of steel or other metals, scrap metal, chemicals, waste products or pet food; any uses involving electroplating or electropainting; and any uses involving the compounding, heating, processing, refining, treating, incineration or generating of goods, materials or products which are defined by state law as hazardous or extremely hazardous, or which are caustic, toxic, highly combustible, noxious or poisonous"
]
}
}