Industrial Districts (M-1 and M-2) and their regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To provide convenient and sufficient zoning districts for industrial activities and for the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services in order to serve and promote the economic development of the community.
(b) To provide areas for industrial and wholesale activities which desire both convenience of location and a reasonable amount of usable space sufficient to meet the needs of parking, loading and unloading, landscaping, etc.
(c) To protect residential neighborhoods adjacent to industrial uses by restricting the types of uses, particularly at the common boundaries, which would create congestion, noise or other objectionable influences, and by preventing the encroachment of incompatible land uses, such as residences and heavy industry.
(d) To provide rational clustering of industrial and wholesale uses which are of a non-nuisance type located near the freeway system, uses which generate relatively large volumes of traffic, so as to be accessible to the labor force and consumers and to lessen truck traffic and congestion in business and residential areas.
(e) To carry out the following specific purposes:
(1) To provide General Industrial Districts (M-1) for establishments that utilize processes in which dust, smoke, fumes, glare, odors or other objectionable influences can be controlled, and which may generate outdoor activities and outdoor storage in association with a principal use.
(2) To provide Light Industrial Development Districts (M-2) which accommodate those industrial uses, storage and related activities conducted entirely within an enclosed building and with a minimum of noise, glare, odor, dust, vibration, air and water pollution, fire and safety hazard or any potentially harmful or nuisance characteristic. An M-2 District is designed to accommodate wholesale, warehouse and industrial activities, the operational and physical characteristics of which do not detrimentally affect a surrounding zoning district.
(Ord. 58-01. Passed 5-29-01.)