MANUFACTURING, GENERAL - A use engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, and packaging of such products, and incidental processing of extracted or raw materials.
MANUFACTURING (LARGE SCALE) - Means establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of component parts and the blending of materials. Examples of manufacturing uses include, without limitation, the following: aircraft, heavy equipment, boat buildings, bottling plants, paint mixing plants (not employing a boiling process), machine shops (except punch presses of over 20 tons rated capacity, drop hammers and automatic screw machines), the manufacture of the following: billboards and advertising structures; electric or neon signs; ceramic products; clothing or garments; cosmetics; perfumes and toiletries; drugs and pharmaceuticals; electronic instruments and devices; radios; televisions and phonographs; food products (except the rendering or refining of fats and oils); furniture; musical instruments; toys; prefabricated buildings; shoes; soap (cold mix only); and textiles. In addition, establishments engaged in electronic, automotive, aerospace, underwater,
missile, airframe or related manufacturing and assembly activities including precision machine shops producing parts, accessories, assemblies, systems, engines, major components and whole electronic or electrical devices, automobiles, aircraft, missiles, aerospace or underwater vehicles, or similar products but specifically excluding explosive fuels and propellants.
MANUFACTURING (SMALL SCALE) - Means establishments that involve only assemblage of materials created or produced elsewhere; that do not require chemical transformation or blending of chemical or liquid materials including, without limitation, electronic instruments, small appliances, blacksmith shop, sheet metal shops, and stone monument works.
MIGRANT FARMWORKER HOUSING - Housing specifically for migrant persons employed in the agricultural industry, to include group quarters and multifamily housing. Such housing must be restricted by deed for occupancy by migrant farmworkers.
MINI-MARKET - A high-volume retail facility that sells a variety of products for consumption off-premises, including but not limited to food and beverages, snacks, alcoholic beverages, household goods, magazines, and accessory automobile supplies.
MINI-WAREHOUSE - A structure containing separate storage spaces of 80 square feet or larger that are designed to be leased or rented individually.
MOBILE HOME - A structure that conforms with the definition set forth in Cal. Health & Safety Code § 18008.
MOBILE HOME PARK or SUBDIVISION - A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two or more mobile home lots for sale or rent.
MOBILE HOME PARK CONDOMINIUM CONVERSION - Includes, without limitation, a change of any existing mobile home park or any portion thereof to condominium, stock cooperative, or any form of ownership wherein spaces within the mobile home park are to be sold, and the cessation of use of all or a portion of the park as a mobile home park, whether immediately or on a gradual basis, or the closure of the park. CONVERSION does not include the purchase of the park by its existing residents.
MOBILE HOME SPACE - A plot of ground within a mobilehome park or subdivision designed to accommodate one mobile home.
MOBILE RECYCLING UNIT - An automobile, truck, trailer, or van licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles which is used for the collection of recyclable materials, or the bins, boxes, or containers transported by such vehicles for the collection of recyclable materials.
MOTEL - See "Hotel."
MULCH - Shredded or chipped wood from tree branches, tree trunks, uncontaminated wood products, or lumber. This material is often mixed with leaves and grass clippings for optimal effect.
(Ord. 1100, passed 7-6-04; Am. Ord. 1167, passed 11-20-06; Am. Ord. 1169, passed 2-5-07)