1811ORDINANCE NO. 1811
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AMENDING
TITLE 18, CHAPTER 18.52 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNI-
CIPAL CODE, RELATING TO ZONING.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1:
That Title 18, Chapter 18.52 of the Anaheim Municipal
Code be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
"CHAPTER 18.52 - M-1, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE
"SECTION 18.52.010. DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE. This zone
is intended to provide for and encourage the development
of industrial uses and their related facilities, and,
further, to recognize the unique and valuable industrial
land resource existing within the City of Anaheim. This
resource is found to have both local and regional signifi-
cance, due to an ideal industrial environment, including
central geographic location, regional access and circula-
tion, desirable soil conditions, availability of utilities
and services, an 'industrial park' appearance and a well-
established industrial base.
SECTION 18.52.020. PERMITTED BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND
USES. The following buildings, structures and uses,
either singly or in combination, are permitted in the
M-1 Zone. The following uses, except agricultural crops,
shall be conducted wholly within a building, except as
herein otherwise provided:
"Subject to the conditions of this zone, any manufacturing,
assembling, repairing, testing, processing, warehousing,
wholesaling, fabrication, research or treatment of products
may be conducted, other than those which may be obnoxious
or offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke,
gas, noise, vibration, electromagnetic disturbance, radia-
tion, or other similar causes detrimental to the public
health, safety or general welfare, including but not
limited to the following specific uses:
(1) Agricultural crops.
(2) Aircraft firm.
(3) Ambulance service firm.
(4) Architectural, engineering, research and testing
firms and laboratories.
(5) Auto trailer, camper, and mobile home manu-
facture.
(6) Bakery, wholesale.
(7) Battery manufacture.
(8) Boat building.
(9) Bottling plant.
(10) Brewery.
(11 Cabinet shop.
(12) Carpet cleaning plant.
(13) Ceramic products manufacture (using only
previously pulverized clay).
(14) Cleaning and dyeing plant.
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(15) Dairy products processing.
(16) Electric or neon sign manufacture.
(17) Electrical, electronic or electromechanical
machinery manufacture.
(18) Food products processing, manufacturing,
canning, preserving and freezing.
(19) Fruit and vegetable packing house.
(20) Furniture manufacture, upholstering,
refinishing.
(21) Garage, parking or parking structure.
(22) Garment manufacture.
(23) Glass manufacture.
(24) Hospital or medical clinic, industrial.
(25) Ice and cold storage plant.
(26) Laundry.
(27) Machine shop.
(28) Mail order firm.
(29) Metal plating.
(30) Metal working, fabrication or welding firm.
(31) Motion picture studios, laboratories and
film processing.
(32) Motor vehicle assembly, new.
(33) Newspaper establishments.
(34) Paint mixing.
(35) Paper, fabrication from.
(36) Photo -engraving, photo -copying, photo-
processing, and blue printing.
(37) Planned unit industrial development (subject
to all site development standards as set
forth in Section 18.52.060).
(38) Plastic, fabrication from.
(39) Prefabricated buildings manufacture.
(40) Printing establishments.
(41) Radio broadcasting studio or station.
(42) Rubber, fabrication of products from
finished rubber.
(43) Service station, automobile or truck.
(44) Sheet metal shop.
(45) Shoe manufacture.
(46) Soap manufacture (cold mix only).
(47) Telephone exchange, studios, offices and
equipment buildings.
(48) Television broadcasting studio or station.
(49) Textile manufacture.
(50) Tire rebuilding, recapping and retreading.
(51) Training center, industrial.
(52) Wholesale business, storage buildings and
warehouses.
(53) Woodworking shop.
"SECTION 18.52.030. ACCESSORY USES. The following acces-
sory uses are permitted only where they are integrated with
and clearly incidental to a primary permitted industrial
use. All uses shall be conductedwholl within a 1-%"41r14"
(1) Dwelling, single,
a caretaker of a
and his family.
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where used exclusively by
permitted industrial use
(2) Employee cafeterias or coffee shops.
(3) Exhibition of products produced on the
premises or available for wholesale
distribution.
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(4) M'2 - General industrial uses, where normally
associated with and necessary to the operation
of a primary permitted M-1 use. Such uses
shall be permitted only when they are found to
be a minor and incidental part of the M-1
operation and where they are not offensive by
reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas,
noise, vibration, electromagnetic disturbance,
radiation, or other similar causes detrimental
to the public health, safety or welfare.
(5) Offices.
(6) _ 6ta6il:,distribution of products produced on the
premises (where not the primary retail outlet
for said products).
"SECTION 18.52.040. OUTDOOR USES. The following special
uses, either entirely outdoor or partially covered or
enclosed, are permitted subject to all site development
standards as specified in Section 18.52.060°
(1) Automobile parking lots.
(2) Helistop (no maintenance of aircraft). Sites
within one thousand (1000) feet of any single
or multiple. -family residential zone require
Council approval.
(3) Public works or -public utility service yards
or electrical receiving and/or transforming
stations.
(4) Small equipment storage or rental.
(5) Storage of equipment, materials, finished
products or refuse basic to the operations
of permitted uses.
"SECTION 18.52.050. CONDITIONAL USES.
(1) The following uses may be permitted in the M-1
Zone subject to a Conditional Use Permit and
subject to all conditions and required showings
of Chapter 18.64. Site development standards
of Section 18.52.060 shall applyo
(a) All M-2 uses (subject to the required
showings as specified in Section
18.64.030).
(b) Drive-in theatres.
(c) Automobile and truck overhauling, painting,
mechanical and body and fender repair.
(d) Exterminating or disinfecting service firm.
(e)Feed mill.
(f) Poultry, dressing, packaging.
(g) Restaurant (with or without cocktail
lounge).
(h) Training center or school, non -industrial.
(2) The following industrial related uses may be
permitted under a Conditional Use Permit only
where combined into a planned unified industrial
service center primarily serving commerce and
industry. The minimum site for such centers
shall be five (5) acres, unless by Commission or
Council resolution a specific adjustment is made
with respect thereto finding that because of
unusual circumstances applicable to subject
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property, including the size on the effective
date of this ordinance or created by involun-
tary conversion, shape, topography, location
• or surroundings, the strict enforcement of the
5 acre minimum site provision would deprive
subject property of site development privileges
enjoyed by other properties in the vicinity and
under identical zone classification. All site
development standards of Section. 18.52.060 shall
apply to said developments. Conditional Use
Permit applications for industrial service
centers or site size adjustments shall be subject
to all conditions and required showings of
Chapter 18.64:
(a) Retail distributing firm, primarily serving
commerce and industry, only incidental ser-
vice to general public permitted.
(b) Service business firms, including business
and professional offices, primarily serving
commerce and industry, only incidental ser-
vice to general public permitted.
The above uses may be permitted by Conditional
Use Permit in industrial developments existing on
the effective date of this ordinance which were
less than 5 acres in size, subject to all condi-
tions and required showings of Chapter 18.64.
(3) Any industrial use to be located closer than
three hundred and thirty (330) feet from the
exterior boundaries of any public school or park
site shall be subject to a Conditional Use Permit.
"SECTION 18.52.060. SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS. The
following industrial site development standards are intended
to provide for the continued orderly development of the
City°s 'industrial park' type areas. These industrial areas
and their continued development in a quality manner are
found to be a resource essential to the community's economic
health and preservation of a competitive industrial growth
potential.
In order to assure adequate levels of light, air and density
of development, to maintain and enhance the locally recognized
values of community appearance, to promote functional compati-
bility of uses and to promote the safe and efficient circula-
tion of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, all of which are
found to be necessary for the preservation of the community
health, safety and general welfare, the following site
development standards shall apply:
(1) Buildin structural and other height limitation
The following height limitations shall apply:
(a) No height limitations.
• (2) Yards and setbacks.
(a) An open setback area extending for the full
width of the subject property shall be
provided along those properties in all
Anaheim industrial areas which abut upon an
arterial highway as designated on the
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circulation element of the General Flan -
'Arterial Streets and Highways' as adopted
and as amended from gime to time. Said
setback area shall be a minimum of fifty
(50) feet in depth, measured from the
planned highway right-of-way line as desig-
nated on the circulation element of the
General Plan °Highwa Rights -of -Way.'
(b)
The front twenty (20� feet of said setback
area shall be landscaped with lawn, trees,
shrubs or other plant materials and shall
be permanently maintained in a nest and
orderly manner as a condition to use.
Fountains, ponds, sculpture,planters, walkways
and decorative screen type walls, 30 inches
or less in height, where an integral part
of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily
of plant materials, are permitted. Entrance
and exit drives and walks may be provided
into parking areas. Said drives shall not
exceed thirty (30) feet in width for each
curb opening.
(c)
The rear thirty (30) feet of said setback
area may be used for employee or customer
parking but where it is not .so utilized,
the entire fifty (50) feet shall be land-
scaped and maintained as provided in (b)
above.
(d)
Subject to all other conditions of (b) and
(c) above, the front. ten (10) feet of said
setback area may be landscaped and the rear
forty (40) feet may be used for employee or
customer parking subject to the following
conditions:
1. Interior portions of the parking lot
area readil visible from an arterial
Vreeway
highway or shall be landscaped
with trees, shrubs and other permanent
plant materials.
2. Said interior landscaping shall be
distributed uniformly throughout said
parking areas, and shall constitute a
minimum of two percent (2%) of said
parking areas.
3. The overall plan for peripheral and
interior landscaping shall be consistent
with the stated purposes of this section
and shall be subject to approval by the
Development Review Committee of the
Building and Planning Departments.
In cases where P -L Zoning exists on highway
frontages, City Council approval of said
landscaping plan shall constitute a waiver
of the P -L Zone requirements.
• (e)
In those industrial :areas where applicants
have been granted temporary sidewalk waivers,
the landscaping shall be extended to the
rear of the curb. Trees shall be located so
as not to conflict with potential future
sidewalks. Plant materials, with the excep-
tion of trees, shall not exceed 30 inches
in height.
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(f)
No fences, walls or structures shall be
permitted in a required setback area
except as follows-.
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Covered walkways, entrance or plant
security structures.
2. open type security fence where located
to the rear of the front landscaped area.
3. Decorative masonry walls, not to exceed
42 inches in height where located to the
rear of the front landscaped area.
4. Flag poles for the display of a national,
state, or company ensign only.
5. Decorative screen walls for the purpose
of screening utility devices or facili-
ties subject to levelopment Review
Committee approval..
(g)
Where an automobile service station is
established in an industrial zone, the re-
quired landscaping shall be in accordance
with adopted service station site, develop-
ment standards. The building setback shall
remain at fifty feet from the planned high-
way right-of-way lime. Pump islands may be
placed within the fifty foot setback area
and may be :sheltered by either a, separate
structure or a sheltering structure attached
to the main building.
(h)
A structural setback area shall be provided
wherever an °ISI° industrial zone sides or
rears upon any °R° residential zone. The
width of the required setback area for any
industrial structure shall be equal to the
height of the wall or side of the proposed
structure. Said setback area may be used
for storage, parking, or other permitted
uses subject to all site development standards.
(i)
Wherever an 'M' industrial zone abuts upon a
street primarily devoted to and intended for
residential usage and where said street is
not an arterial highway, in order to maintain
and enhance the established values of commu-
nity appearance basic to continued growth,
there shall be provided along said residential
street for -the full width of the subject pro-
perty a ten (10) foot structural setback area.
Said setback shall be landscaped and maintain-
ed in the same manner as specified above.
Any walls or fencing provided shall be
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erected at the rear of said setback area.
A building
setback area extending for the
full width of the subject property shall be
provided along those properties within an
industrial subdivision which abut upon an
interior industrial street. Said setback
area shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25)
feet in depth, measured from the property
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line, and may be used for landscaping or
vehicular parking.
(3) Fences and walls. The following fences and walls
shall be provided:
(a)
Where an W industrial zone sides or rears
upon any °Re residential zone or an alley
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which abuts a residential zone, except for
access drives and walks, there shall be a
solid masonry wall not less than six (6)
feet..in height erected along and adjacent
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to the property line that is the zone
boundary.
(b)
Outdoor uses, as permitted in Section
18.52.040, with the exception of automobile
parking lots, shall enclose their site
with a solid masonry wall not less than six
(6) feet in height. Where abutting an
arterial highway, said wall shall be erected
to the rear of the required fifty -foot set-
back area. Where abutting a residential
street, which is not an arterial highway,
said wall shall be erected to the rear of
the required ten -foot setback area.
(4) Off-street parking. The following minimum off-
street parking spaces shall be provided:
(a)
Wholesaling or warehousing uses - one (1)
space for 1000 square feet of gross floor
area.
(b)
Outdoor uses - one (1) space for every
two (2) of the maximum contemplated number
of employees that will be emplo ed upon
the site at one time, or one (1f space
per 2500 square feet of lot area, which-
ever results in the greater amount of
parking.
(c)
Training centers - one (1) space per seat
or per ten (10) square feet of gross floor
area in places of assembly or instruction
and three (3) spaces per one thousand (1000)
square feet of gross floor area in areas
where heavy equipment is used in conjunction
with instruction or training.
(d)
All other industrial uses - one (1) space
for every two (2) of the maximum contemplated
number of employees that will be employed
upon the site at one time, or two (2) spaces
per 1000 square feet of gross floor area,
whichever results in the greater amount of
parking.
(e)
In addition to the above re uirements, there
shall also be provided one �1) space per
truck of a size adequate to accommodate such
vehicles of the maximum contemplated number
that will be stored upon the site at one
time.
(f)
Where a combination of industrial accessory
or conditional uses are proposed, the parking
requirements shall be the sum of the require-
ments of the individual types of uses.
(g)
Required off-street parking shall be provided
on the site of the use served, or on a contig-
uous site or within three hundred (300) feet
of the subject site. Where parking is pro-
vided on other than the site of the use
served, a recorded document approved by the
City Attorney and signed by the owners of
the alternate site stipulating to the perma-
nent reservation of use of the site for said
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parking, shall be filed with the Building
and Planning Departments prior to the
issuance of Building Permits.
(h) All off-street parking shall be improved in
accordance with the requirements of the
General Provisions Section of Title 18 -
Zoning Code.
Outdoor storage. Outdoor storage of equipment,
materials, products or refuse permitted under
Section 18.52.040 shall be adequately screened
and not readily visible from any arterial high-
way. Where an outdoor storage area abuts any
°R residential zone, such storage shall.,be
adequately screened from v;_ew. Standard refuse
storage areas, which are adequate in size, accessi-
ble to refuse truck pickup and adequately enclosed
by a solid fence or wall shall be provided prior
to final building inspection. All outdoor storage
shall be maintained in a neat and sightly manner.
Off-street loading. Off-street loading spaces
shall be provided in accordance with Section
18.04.040.
Development review. In order to promote the
continued quality development characteristic of
Anaheim's industrial areas to insure and enchance
both potential and established values and invest-
ments through the encouragement of compatible
developments, both structurally and architecturally,
all development plans shall be subject to review
and approval by the Development Review Committee
of the Building and Planning Departments. Appeals
from the action of the Committee shall be to the
City Council in written form, stating the reasons
for said appeal.
Performance standards. All uses shall be
maintained in suc a manner that they are neither
obnoxious or offensive by reason of emission of
odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration, electro-
magnetic disturbance, radiation or other similar
causes detrimental to the public health, safety
or general welfare. Punch presses, drop hammers,
automatic screw machines or other excessive noise
producing equipment shall be subject to the
approval of the Development Review Committee.
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,nnzicipacing rnat changes will occur in the local
neighborhoods and the City generally due to the
increase in vehicular traffic, including trucking,
increase in pedestrian traffic, increased voice,
and other activities associated with the City°s
development and growth, the following dedications
and improvements are deemed to be necessary to
prevent congestion and the other hazards that are
related to the intensified use of the land and to
be necessary for the preservation of the public
health, safety and general welfare. These require-
ments shall be met or complied with before any
building shall be finally approved and accepted
for use and occupancy.
(a) All required streets and alleys, both
local and highway, which abut the subject
property shall be dedicated to the full
width designated on the circulation
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element of the General Plain - 'Highway
Rights -of -Way' as adopted and amended
from time to time.
(b) All street, high -way and alley improve-
ments shall have alreadv been installed
arzd bie ir., good repair or, street improve-
ment plaits shall be required to be pre-
pared to City of Araheim standards and
said improveiTke.nts constructed. A Faith-
ful Performance Bond in a form approved
by the City Attorney and in an amount
to be determi-ned by the Cit�, F:,n-,,gineer
may be, p,,-.sted to guara-n,,,. ee, 'the construction
,of the streets which may include but not
necessarily be limited to excavation, curbs,
pavement, gutters, side%calks, drainage
facilities or any other engineering require-
ments.
equire-
men.ts.
(c) Street lighti-��g facilities shall be installed
in accordance with a street lighting plan
approved by the Utllit!6� Director, or street
lighting fees in tine amo,unt of $2.00 per
front foot for an,y ,,,butting street or high-
way shall be deposited wit_,h the City of
Anaheim for the installation of said street
lighting
(d) Public ut-AL111ty easements necessary to serve
the subject property and,lor the area in
which the subject property is situate shall
be dedicated to the. City of Anaheim in ac-
cordance with the re,juirements of the
Utilities Dire -tor.
(e) Necessary fire protection facilities shall
be provided for in ac.cordance with the re-
quirements of the Fire Chief of the City
of Anaheim.
(f) The Building Inspector shall not grant final
release of occupancy to any structure con-
structed upon any property covered by this
ordinance until the Cit -V Engineer has certi-
fied to the com Iiance of the conditions
set forth irk and (b) above; the Utilities
Director has certified to the compliance of
the conditions set forth in (c) and (d) above;
and the Fire Chief has certified to the com-
plia-acf,, of the cu-nditions set forth in (e)
above.
SECTION 2-
The City Clerk shall cextify to the passage of this or-
dinance and shall cause the same to be published once within fif-
teen (15) days after its adoption, in the A-raheim- Bulletin, a
newspaper of general. circulation, printe-d, published, and circulated
in said City, and thirty (30) days from and after its final pas-
sage, it shall take effe'ct and be in, full force.
- -THE FOREGOING Cal DTNANCE is approved and signed by me
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1811 was intro-
duced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Ana-
heim held on the 29th day of January, 1963, and that the same was
duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council
held on the 5th day of February, 1963, by the following vote of
the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL49EN: Dutton, Chandler, Schutte, Krein and Coons
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
ARID I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of
Anaheim approved and signed said Ordinance No. 1811 on the 5th
day of February, 1963.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 5th day
of February, 1963.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
Do HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE
NO /S
. / / WAS PUBLISHED ONCE
IN THE ANAHEL:' BULLETIN
ON THE,/ Z�L �,_
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