The M-L district is designed to provide an environment for aggregation of compatible, non-nuisance type industrial uses, where activities are conducted and confined within the building or structure. It is intended to establish areas where industrial activities, laboratories and clean, quiet operations can function within the context of an industrial park concept. The M-L district is designed to protect these industrial areas from intrusions of incompatible and nonindustrial use, and provide for safety and health considerations by appropriate fire access, circulation, traffic flow, and other standards. Additionally, an aesthetically pleasing environment shall be encouraged.
(Ord. 467 § 55, 1984)
Uses permitted by right in an M-L district shall be as follows:
(1) 
Administrative, executive, financial and other professional offices;
(2) 
Bookbinding, lithography, editorial, designing, printing and publishing facilities;
(3) 
Manufacturing, assembly, printing or packaging of products from previously prepared materials, such as cloth, plastic, paper, leather, wood, glass, metal or stones, but not including such operations as saw and planing mills, steel or iron works or rolling mills or any manufacturing uses involving primary production of commodities from raw materials;
(4) 
Wholesale storage and distribution of foods and materials, including warehouses, moving services, delivery services and similar uses, but not including storage of flammables, explosives or materials which create dust, odors or fumes;
(5) 
Research and development laboratories and institutes;
(6) 
Nonretail dry cleaning plants and laundries;
(7) 
Television and radio stations;
(8) 
Fruit and vegetable freezing, processing and packing operations, but not canneries;
(9) 
Manufacturing of bakery goods, candy and similar products, but not including production of fish or meat products, the rendering of fats or oils or any products whose manufacture may create dust, fumes or obnoxious odors;
(10) 
Manufacturing of electrical and electronic instruments and devices;
(11) 
Small animal hospitals, provided all activities are confined within the building;
(12) 
Public uses and utilities, not including recreation facilities, disposal sites, sewage treatment and power plants;
(13) 
Medical and dental laboratories;
(14) 
Greenhouses;
(15) 
Cabinet shops;
(16) 
Retail and wholesale sales in conjunction with allowed uses when directly incidental to the principal use of the property;
(17) 
Mini-storage;
(18) 
Day care facilities and other employment center services;
(19) 
Bottling works, distilleries, breweries;
(20) 
All other uses similar to those enumerated above, and any light manufacturing or related industrial use, determined by the director of community development, upon presentation of substantial evidence, to be of the same general character as the above permitted uses and compatible with the intent of the district.
(Ord. 467 § 55, 1984; Ord. 467-X § 5, 2000; Ord. 467-AC § 18, 2003)
Uses permitted by use permit in an M-L district shall be as follows:
(1) 
Retail establishments of a nature designed principally to serve surrounding industrial uses, such as restaurants, snack bars, and the like;
(2) 
Airstrips and heliports;
(3) 
Manufacturing of cosmetics or pharmaceuticals;
(4) 
Uses otherwise allowed within this chapter by right or by use permit which involve an outdoor component including, but not limited to, storage, assembly of parts, play areas (in the case of a day care center).
(Ord. 467 § 55, 1984; Ord. 467-X § 6, 2000; Ord. 467-AC § 18, 2003)
Development standards and area requirements in an M-L district shall be as follows:
(1) 
Minimum Lot Size. Six thousand square feet;
(2) 
Minimum Lot Width Required. Sixty feet; provided, that no internal lot shall be greater than three times deeper than it is wide or greater than three times wider than it is deep;
(3) 
Maximum Front Yard Required. Twenty feet, except that buildings shall not be less than fifty feet from the centerline of any public roadway;
(4) 
Minimum Side Yard Required. Fifteen feet or ten percent of front lot width whichever is smaller, except that it shall be twenty-five feet when adjacent to R zones;
(5) 
Minimum Rear Yard Required. Ten feet, except that buildings shall not be less than fifty feet from the centerline of any public roadway and except that the required setback shall be twenty-five feet when adjacent to R zones;
(6) 
Maximum Building Height Allowed. Forty-five feet.
(Ord. 467 § 55, 1984)
Special provisions in an M-L district shall be as follows:
(1) 
All development shall be subject to design review according to the provisions of this title.
(2) 
Except as otherwise approved by use permit, all uses must be conducted entirely within an enclosed building.
(3) 
Parking required shall be two off-street spaces for every three employees on the largest shift, except for those uses specifically cited in Chapter 18.104. The minimum parking space size shall be nine feet by eighteen feet. All parking areas shall be paved. For parking areas with sixteen or more spaces, the minimum landscaping required shall be one tree, within the parking area, of a species suited to the area climate zone for every eight parking spaces to provide shade and visual diversity. Additional landscaping may be required in areas abutting public roads on a case-by-case basis.
(4) 
Any off-street parking areas provided in a required front or side yard setback shall be separated from streets and adjacent property by a five-foot minimum landscaped strip.
(5) 
There shall be one off-street loading space for each five thousand square feet or remainder portions thereof, of building area, except for buildings greater than ten thousand square feet, two spaces shall be provided and one space for every thirty-five thousand square feet thereafter. The minimum loading space size shall be twelve feet by twenty-two feet. All loading areas shall be paved. The required yard setback shall not be used for parking.
(6) 
Landscaping shall be established and maintained by the property owner within the required front yard, side yards and rear yard. Landscaping shall be either live or inert.
(7) 
In the case of mini-storage warehouses, the following shall apply:
(A) 
Each lot line shall have a landscape screen, stone or masonry wall, or opaque fence at least six feet in height.
(B) 
Neutral or "earth-tone" colors shall be employed.
(C) 
Ingress or egress shall be at one point only at the front of the property.
(D) 
All interior accessways shall be paved.
(E) 
Accessways along the perimeter of the units shall be twenty-six feet in width.
(F) 
In the case of single-faced units, interior accessways shall be twenty feet.
(G) 
In the case of the double-faced units, interior accessways shall be twenty-six feet.
(8) 
Building colors employed shall be neutral or "earth tone" and shall be of a nonglare substance.
(Ord. 467 § 55, 1984; Ord. 467-AC § 18, 2003)