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The purposes of the industrial districts are to:

A. Provide appropriately located areas for continued employment activities to ensure a robust economy that is essential in order for the city to continue to provide the high level of public services that the community expects;

B. Provide for the appropriate location of businesses that may have the potential to generate off-site impacts, while providing compatibility in use and form;

C. Assure high-quality design and site planning of office and employment areas and support the adaptive reuse of industrial buildings that contribute to the character of the city as a whole; and

D. Ensure that new industrial and office development is designed to minimize traffic, parking and impacts on surrounding neighborhoods, and is appropriate to the physical characteristics of the site and the area where the project is proposed.

Additional purposes of each industrial district:

1. LI Light Industrial. This district is intended to accommodate a diverse range of existing industrial uses that provide a job base and affordable space for small-scale industrial and manufacturing businesses. Allowable land uses within this district include light industrial uses, including but not limited to businesses engaged in design, development, manufacturing, fabricating, testing, or assembly of various products, which provide important community services and employment for workers with various skills. This district also allows general service, research and development, biotechnology, warehousing, and service commercial uses. It includes industrial complexes, flex space, and industrial buildings for single and multiple uses, warehouses, mini-storage, wholesale, commercial recreation, and other related uses. Small-scale retail and ancillary office uses are also permitted.

2. GI General Industrial. This district is intended to accommodate the broadest range of industrial uses on sites identified as “Employment” in the general plan. These intensive uses include but are not limited to manufacturing, processing, assembly, research, wholesale, storage, and distribution activities that are essential to a balanced economic base. Small-scale commercial services and ancillary office uses are also permitted.

3. IP Industrial Park. This district is intended to provide for office and advanced technology uses, scientific research, and limited manufacturing of related products which require large expanses of floor area on large parcels. Development intensity is intended to provide for office uses and other uses within a campus-like environment that will be compatible with abutting residential neighborhoods, especially in terms of scale and building mass. [Res. 21-09; Ord. 21-05 § 2; Res. 14-36 § 205.01; Ord. 14-12 § 1.]