Ordinance Number 73ORDINANCE NO. 73
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY ORDINANCE NO. S OF THE
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA, BY INCOR-
PORATING THEREIN CERTAIN DISTRICT REGULATIONS
GOVERNING "M -L", LIMITED MANUFACTURING AND RESEARCH
DISTRICT REGULATIONS.
SECTION I. PURPOSE
The purpose of this district is to provide a method whereby property may be
classified and used for research, electronic, scientific and certain light manu-
facturing types of industry and uses compatible therewith. The specifications of
this district are intended to provide spaciousness for landscaping, automobile
parking and placement of buildings; encourage betterment of industrial develop-
ment; effect a greater degree of compatability with more restrictive districts,
either existing or potential, and a good environment for industry, its manage.
ment and employees. These specifications are intended to provide development
and operational standards for yards, structures and equipment which will minimize
traffic congestion, noise, glare, vibration, the emission of odors, toxic or
noxious matter, air or water pollution, fire and safety hazards and insure ade-
quate drainage.
SECTION II. USES PERMITTED.
1. Research laboratories and facilities, developmental laboratories and
facilities and testing laboratories and facilities.
2. Manufacturing, assembly, testing and repair of components, devices,
equipment and systems of an electrical, electronic or electromechanical nature,
such as but not limited to:
(a) Television and radio equipment and systems.
(b) Phonographs and audio units.
(c) Metering instruments, equipment and systems.
(d) Radar?, infra -red and ultra violet equipment and systems.
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(e) Coils, tubes, semi -conductors and similar components.
(f) Scientific and mechanical instruments.
(g) Data processing equipment and systems.
(h) Communication, navigation control, transmission and reception equip-
ment, control equipment and systems, guidance equipment and systems.
3. Manufacturing, testing, repair and assembly of optical devices, equipment
and systems.
4. Manufacturing, testing, repair and assembly of testing equipment.
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5. Research and development facilities for the creation of prototype.
6. Pharmaceutical laboratories.
7. Administrative, professional and business offices accessory to the uses
permitted in this district.
8. Cafeteria, cafe, restaurant or auditorium accessory to any use permitted
in this district. -
9. One dwelling unit on the same site as that of a, permitted use which
dwelling shall be occupied exclusively by a superintendent and his family, or
by a watchman or custodian and his family. The use of a trailer or mobile home
for the purpose set forth in this paragraph shall not be permitted.
10. Blueprinting and photostating.
ll. Assembly of plastic products.
12. Manufacture of ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay
and using kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
13. Parcel service delivery depot. -
14. Photo engraving.
15. Manufacture of control devices and gauges.
16. Glass edging, bevelling and silvering.
17. Studio or office or quarters for industrial designing, model making,
sculpture, architecture, engineering, planning, drafting editorial and general
designing and.ceramic arts.
18. Recreation area or facility necessary to any use permitted in this dis-
trict.
19. Signs illuminated or nonilluminated, as follows:
(a) One single -faced or double-faced sign not exceeding one sq. ft. in
area for each 600 sq, ft. in the building site area, which shall indicate only
the person, firm, company, or corporation operating the use conducted on the
premises. Such sign shall contain no other advertising matter and shall not
exceed 200 sq, ft.. in area.
(b) One single -faced or double-faced sign not exceeding 100 sq, ft. in
area per face, advertising only the sale, lease or hire of the premises.
(c) Signs not more than 6 sq, ft. in area used only for directional or
identification purposes or as required for safety or security reasons.
(d) Signs may be placed within the front or side yard of a site which
abuts a street which is not a part of the Master Plan of Streets and Highways, if
not located within 40 feet from the center line of such street.
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(e) Signs may be placed within the front or side yard area of a site
which abuts any highway, as shown on the Master Plan of Streets and Highways,
provided they are not located less than 10 feet from the ultimate right of
way of such highway.
(f) No sign shall be placed on the roof of any building, nor shall any sign
be more than 12 feet high.
20. Storage warehouses, retail and wholesale, excluding those for storage
of inflammables, explosives and truck terminals.
21. Cartography, bookbinding, printing and lithography.
22. Editorial and designing in connection with newspapers and magazines.
23. Public utility distribution and transmission substations.
24. The following uses subject to approved variance:
(a) Furniture manufacturing including upholstery.
(b) Finished paper products manufacture.
(c) Garment manufacturers.
(d) Small craft building.
(e) Laundry and dry cleaning establishments. -
(f) Toy and novelty manufacture.
(g) Machine shops or other metal working shops.
(h) The compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products
as candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, toiletries
and food products, except the rendering and refining of fats and oils.
(i) The manufacture or assembly of articles or merchandise from the fol-
lowing previously prepared materials:, Aluminum, bone, brass, celo-
phane, camelback, canvas, cloth, cork, copper, feathers, felt, fiber,
fur, glass, hair, horn, latex,, lead, leather, paint, paper, plastics,
precious or semi-precious metals or stones, shell tin, imn, steel,
tobacco, wood, or yarns.
(j) Medical facilities serving uses in this district..
SECTION III. SITE DEVEIOPMENT.
The establishment, operation and maintenance of the uses permitted by para-
graph A shall be subject to the following:
1. Prior to the issuance of a Building Permit by the Department of Building
and Safety, the following shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for approval:
(a) A plot plan showing dimensions and locations of all existing and pro-
posed buildings, signs, driveways, off-street parking areas, loading and unloading
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areas, topography, abutting streets, railroads, highways, watercourses,
and other topographical features of the site.
(b) Architectural plans and specifications for all proposed buildings,
roofs, signs, exterior walls or fences.
(c) A description of the proposed industrial operation in sufficient
detail to set forth its nature and extent.
(d) Plans or reports describing method of handling any traffic condition
created by the proposed use.
(e) Plans or reports showing proposed treatment and disposal of sewage
and industrial waste; treatment of glare, handling of hazardous gases,
liquids and other materials.
(f) Approval by the Air Pollution Control District of any plans, devices,
or facilities for the control of any air pollutants which may be gener-
ated.
(g) Landscape architectural plans: Provisions for landscaping of the
property shall be included in the preliminary development plan. These
shall include, but shall not be limited to provisions for screen plant-
ing, lawn areas, trees, shrubs, irrigation, driveways and walkways.
2. All storage shall be completely enclosed.
3. All structures in this district (except signs, trim and minor architectural
features) shall -be constructed of ceramics, masonry, concrete, wood frame and stucco,
metal frame and stucco or other similar materials or architectural panels.
4. There shall be no rubbish or refuse incineration on the premises.
y. There shall be provided and maintained in a good and workable condition
adequate and sufficient safety and fire suppression equipment and devices in such
location on the premises as may be necessary to prevent and suppress fireandex-
plosion hazards wherever inflammable or explosive materials are used or stored.
6. No equipment, machinery or facility in such establishment shall be oper-
ated so as to produce or generate vibration or noise which is preceptible without
the aid of instruments, to a person of ordinary normal sensibilities at or beyond
the boundary lines of the premises.
y. No such establishment shall be operated in a manner resulting in the
emission of dust or other substances susceptible of being transmitted through the
air, or heat or glare to an extent or degree permitting such emission or emissions
to extend beyond the boundary line of the premises.
8. The floor area ratio shall not exceed 1.0 and the ground floor area of
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the structure shall not exceed forty (40) percent of the total area of the site.
9. The minimum requirement for yards shall be as follows:
(a) Where the site abuts any highway shown on the Master Plan,of Streets
and Highways, no buildings or structures, except signs, shall be placed
closer to the centerline of such highway than the following distances:
Major Highway 90 ft.
Primary Highway 80 ft.
Secondary Highway 70 ft.
(b) Where site abuts a street which is not a part of the Master Plan of
Streets and Highways, no buildings or structures except signs, shall be
placed less than 60 ft. from the centerline thereof.
(c) There shall be a side yard of not less than twenty feet in width
from each side boundary line of the premises, except where such side
boundary lines abut any residential, estate or agricultural district,
in which case such side abutting yard shall not be less than fifty (50)
feet.
(d) Rear yards which do not abut a street, and which abut property in a
residential, estate or agricultural district, shall be not less than
fifty (50) feet in depth, Rear yards which do not abut a street and
which do not abut property in a residential, estate or agricultural
district, shall not be less than twenty (20) feet in depth.
10. Except for driveways, walkways, utility facilities and permitted signs,
the minimum yard area required herein above shall be devoted exclusively to
landscaping which shall be continuously maintained in a neat and orderly
manner.
11. Driveways and walkways shall not occupy more than 40% of the area of the
required front yard.
12. Parking 6r storage space shall be provided for all vehicles used in
conducting the activity permitted in this district. Employee and visitor
parking shall be provided on the building site at the ratio of at least one
automobile parking space for each 200 sq. ft, of gross building floor area
(except building floor area devoted exclusively to warehouse purposes) to-
gether with adequate vehicular ingress and egress. Required employee parking
shall be determined on the basis of 350 sq. ft. of usable land area per vehi-
cle, unless the plot plan .shows a detailed design of individual parking spaces
not less than 10 feet by 20 feet in size, accurately dimensioned, together
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with adequate vehicular ingress and egress.
Not less than 2% of any vehicular storage or parking area shall be land-
scaped and maintained. The landscaping required by B_10 above, shall not
apply to this requirement,
13• Loading platforms shall be located, and/or screened by a landscape or
architectural feature so as not to be visible from any adjoining street or
highway or adjoining property in a residential, estate or agricultural dis-
trict.
14. All portions of the building site, exclusive of structures, parking
areas, recreational uses, driveways and walkways shall be I landscaped and
maintained.
15. Lights illuminating the grounds, driveways, walkways, signs, parking
areas or building exteriors shall be installed and maintained in such manner
as to confine direct rays to the premises and avoid direct rays or glare
onto neighboring properties.
16. No use, or portion thereof, shall be of such nature as to be or become
obnoxious or offensive by reason of emission of dust, smoke, gas, fumes,
cinders, refuse matter or water carried waste, as determined by the Air Poll_
ution Control District and the City Health Departmeht.
SECTION N. SITE REQUIREMENT.
The minimum building site area shall be 15,000 square feet.
SECTION V. HEIGHT LIMIT.
Building Height limit shall not exceed thirty-five (35) feet.
SECTION VI. PUBLIC UTILITIES.
All new and existing distribution electric and telephone utilities shall be
placed underground pursuant to agreement between the developer and/or prospective
property owner and the utility company in accordance with the serving utility's
approved California Public Utilities Commission rule or rules then in existence
governing the allocation of cost for the installation of underground utilities.
Transformers may be padmounted at points of service, but such transformers
shall be ornamentally screened from view by the owner or developer of the property.
As provided by item 23, paragraph "A", transmission substations and feeder
lines may be within the area and need not be located below ground. Such substa-
tions shall be landscaped and adequately screened from view so as not to conflict
with the architecture of adjacent structures.
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SECTION VII. EFFECTIVE DATE AND PUBLICATION.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days from and
after its passage, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the
passage thereof, this Ordinance shall be published in the Coastline Dispatch, a
newspaper printed in San Juan Capistrano, County of Orange, State of California,
together with the names of the members of the City Council.
Passed, approved and adopted this 10th day of September, 1963.
Mayor of the City of
San Juan Capistrano
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City
of San Juan Capistrano
State of California )
County of Orange ) as.
City of San Juan Capistrano)
I, ERNEST A. THOMPSON, City Clerk -Administrator of the City of San Juan Cap-
istrano, California, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing Ordinance
was duly and regularly adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 10th day of September, 1963, and passed by a majority vote
of said Council.
AYES: Councilmen: Buchheim, Durnford, Olivares, Bathgate.
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Cliff
(SEAL)
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City Clerk -Administrator
of San Juan Capistrano
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