§ 18.44.020. Allowed uses.

In the GI district:

A.

The following uses are permitted without a use permit provided that, prior to the issuance of any building permit or the commencement of such use, the director or his designee has issued a site plan approval pursuant to Chapter 18.140 (commencing with Section 18.140.010) and further providing that the use(s), other than agriculture, do not employ more than twenty-five full-time equivalent employees:

1.

Agriculture;

2.

Bakeries and creameries;

3.

Cabinet shops and lumber storage yards, including wholesale and incidental retail sales;

4.

Electrical, plumbing, heating, welding, sheet metal and machine parts and shops, if conducted within a completely enclosed building or screened outdoor yard area;

5.

Equipment storage, rental or repair yards, including contractor storage yards or building materials yards if conducted within a completely enclosed building or screened outdoor yard area;

6.

Truck terminals, including truck repair facilities;

7.

Storage, warehousing and related wholesale and incidental retail sales of goods and nonvehicular equipment, whether conducted outdoors or within buildings, including facilities for the aging, and storage subsequent to aging, of alcoholic beverages, except that no more than ten percent of the gross floor area shall be devoted to incidental retail sales activities;

8.

Assemblage or packaging of products from previously prepared materials such as aluminum, cloth, plastic, paper, leather, precious or semi-precious metals or stones;

9.

Minor antennas meeting the requirements of Sections 18.119.240 through 18.119.260;

10.

Telecommunication facilities that meet the performance standards specified in Section 18.119.200, provided that prior to issuance of any building permit, or the commencement of the use if no building permit is required, the director or his/her designee has issued a site plan approval pursuant to Chapter 18.140.

B.

The following industrial uses are permitted, provided that a use permit has been granted pursuant to Chapter 18.124 (commencing with Section 18.124.010):

1.

Laundries and cleaning and dyeing plants;

2.

Wrecking, auto dismantling, salvage and recycling or junkyards;

3.

Heavy manufacturing, which shall include the manufacture of automobiles, tractors, farm equipment, trucks, railway equipment, aircraft, cranes, electrical generating or transmission equipment; the processing of steel or other metals, scrap metal, chemicals, waste products or pet food; any uses involving electroplating or electropainting; and any uses involving the compounding, heating, processing, refining, treating, incineration or generating of goods, materials or products which are defined by state law as hazardous or extremely hazardous, or which are caustic, toxic, highly combustible, noxious or poisonous;

4.

Manufacturing or commercial processing of asphalt and asphalt products, building materials, cement, concrete, sand and rock, minerals, mineral ores or similar products or materials;

5.

Agricultural processing plants and facilities, including bakeries and creameries employing more than twenty-five full-time equivalent employees, wineries or other alcoholic beverage plants; fruit and vegetable packing plants, dehydrators or canneries;

6.

Limited professional and personal service commercial uses, such as contractor's showrooms, as an accessory use to other allowed uses listed within Section 18.44.020;

7.

Educational and training facilities which support the above-identified types of uses;

8.

Caretaker residences;

9.

Other uses which, in the opinion of the approving officer or body, are consistent with the intent of this district and similar in their environmental effects to those of any of the above-listed uses;

10.

Telecommunication facilities that do not meet one or more of the performance standards specified in Section 18.119.200;

11.

Emergency shelters, providing that all the conditions set forth in Section 18.104.065 are met and that applicable conditions in the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan and the Napa County Airport Industrial Area Specific Plan are met.

C.

Uses described in subsection (A) of this section, other than agriculture, shall require the approval of a use permit pursuant to Chapter 18.124 (commencing with Section 18.124.010) if those uses would be constructed/established in environmentally sensitive areas as defined in Section 18.08.270; would involve storage or use of more than fifty-five gallons or five hundred pounds of hazardous, infectious wastes or any amount of extremely hazardous waste as defined in Health and Safety Code Sections 25117, 25115 and 25117.5, and Title 22, Division 4, Articles 9 and 11 of the California Administrative Code or hazardous materials as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 25411(c); or employ more than twenty-five full-time equivalent employees.

D.

In the event a proposed use involves multiple uses, some of which require a use permit and some of which do not, the entire proposed use shall require a use permit.

E.

In the event that a use allowed without a use permit pursuant to subsection (A) of this section is converted to a use permitted in subsection (B) of this section following site plan approval, a use permit shall be required pursuant to Chapter 18.124 (commencing with Section 18.124.010).

(Ord. No. 1323, § 13, 6-23-2009; Ord. 1246 § 9, 2004: Ord. 1244 § 1, 2004: Ord. 1097 §§ 30, 31, 1996; Ord. 896 § 1, (part), 1988: prior code § 12279.1)