Ord 0464-ADDING TO SAID ORDINANCE NO. 3 SECTION 3.00 THEREOFORDINANCE NO. 464
BEING AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS,
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 392 DESIGNATED AS
THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF SAID TOWN BY AMENDING
SECTION 3.00 THEREOF:°AND BY ADDING TO SAID
ORDINANCE NO. 392 A NEW SECTION TO BE KNOWN
AS SECTION 27.00, WHICH SECTION ESTABLISHES
A NEW-ZONING DISTRICT AND PRESCRIBES USES OF
LAND AND BUILDINGS AND OTHER.REGULATIONS
REQUIRED IN SAID DISTRICT: ADOPTING THE PRO-
VISIONS OF CERTAIN PRIMARY CODES AND STANDARDS
BY REFERENCE, WHICH SAID CODES AND STANDARDS
ARE THE AMERICAN STANDARD SOUND LEVEL METERS
FOR MEASUREMENT OF NOISE AND OTHER SOUNDS,
224.3: 1944, AMERICAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
INC., NEW YORK, N. Y., AND `AMERICAN STANDARD
SPECIFICATION FOR ANOiCTAVE-BAND FILTER SET
FOR THE ANALYSIS OF NOISE AND OTHER SOUND,
224.10 - 1953, AMERICAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION,
INC., THE STANDARD RINGLEMANN SMOKE CHART AS
ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES
FORTHE PURPOSE OF MEASURING THE DENSITY OF
SMOKE, DUST AND OTHER AIR POLLUTING ELEMENTS,
THE STANDARDS OF THE MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS'
ASSOCIATION, INC., PARTICULARLY CHAPTER 5
THEREOF ENTITLED "AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT
MANUAL" FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ODOROUS GASES
AND ODOROUS MATTERS
The Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos does
ordain as follows:
SECTION ONE. Section 3.00, DISTRICTS, of Ordinance
No. 392 is hereby repealed.
SECTION TWO. A new section is hereby added to
Ordinance No 392 as follows:
Section 3.00 DISTRICTS: In order to carry
out the purpose and provisions of this Ordinance,
the Town is hereby divided into Districts, known
as
FULL NAME SHORT NAME
"R1" Single-family
District ......"Rl" District
""R2" Multiple-family
District ......................."R2" District
"R3" Multiple-family
District.. .............."R3" District
"C111 ` Neighborhood Com-
mercial District........ ....."C1'" District
"C2" General Com-
mercial District ...............:"C2" District
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11CM11 Controlled Manu-
facturing District.............. "CM11 District
"Pall Light Industrial
3J~straCteeeo•o o~•: •s.. o...•♦••.e~~Mln District
"M211 Heavy Industrial
District IIM211 District
SECTION THREE.' The following new sections are hereby
added to Ordinance No. 392:
Section 27.00 11CM11 CONTROLLED MkNUFACTURING
DISTRICT
Section 27.01 The following regulations shall
apply in the IICMII Controlled. Manufacturing District:
Section 27..02 USE: No building, structure or
land shall be used and no building or structure shall
be hereafter erected, structurally altered or enlarged,
except for the following uses:
Section 27.03 Administrative, executive and,
financial offices
Air conditioning, manufacture and
sale
Aircraft parts, manufacture and
sale
Automobile parts, manufacture and
sale
Awning manufacture and sale, cloth,
metal, wood or plastic
Broom manufacture and sale
Bottling works and syrup manufact-
ure and sale
Confection manufacture and sale
Carting, express, hauling or storage
Clothing and dry goods manufacture
and sale
Crop and tree farming, as the same
existed at the time of the
adoption of this ordinance
Electrical and electronic parts,
products and appliances and
sale of same
Electrical and neon sign, manufact-
ure and sale
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Envelope manufacture and sale
Fixture manufacture and sale
Food and Beverage sale
Furniture manufacture and sale
Hardware, manufacture and sale
Household appliances, manufacture
and sale
Ice cream manufacture and sale
Knit good manufacture and sale
Laboratories, experimental, film
or testing
Leather products sale
Looseleaf book manufacture and sale
Mattress factory and sale - renov-
ating where dust precipitating
equipment is used
Metal products, manufacture and sale
Millinery manufacture and sale
Office equipment and supply,
manufacture and sale
Optical goods manufacture and sale
Paper products and paper box
products sale
Pharmaceutical manufacture and sale
Plastic products, molding, casting,
and shaping
Pool car distribution warehouse
Professional, research and
engineering offices
Publishing, printing, engraving
and lithographing
Restaurants, subject to the securing
of a conditional use permit in
accordance with the procedure
specified in Section 18.00 of
this ordinance.
Rug and carpet manufacture and sale--
cleaning, if dust-proof cleaning
rooms in which dust catching,
washing and scouring equipment
are provided
Seed, sale
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Shoe and boot manufacture, and
sale excluding any tanning
operation
Storage battery sale
Team tracks and unloading docks,
railroads
Tires and accessories, sale
Tire retreading and recapping
and sale
Tool manufacture and sale
Venetian blind manufacture and sale
Warehousing and sales office
Wood products sale
Other uses similar to the above if
first approved as provided in
Section 15.01.1 of Ordinance
No. 392, as amended
Section 27.01 DEFINITION OF SALE:
The term sale as used in the foregoing section shall
be limited to:
(1) The wholesale of articles manufactured on the
premises.
(2) Sales to the ultimate consumer of articles
manufactured on the premises to customer's order.
Retail businesses, that is, those businesses
engaged in the purchase of articles at wholesale for resale at
retail are prohibited and excluded..
Section 27.05 AUTOMOBILE PARKING ADD LOADING AREAS
Automobile parking and loading shall be provided
for as follows:
(a) Parking spaces shall b e provided on the lot for all
vehicular traffic'enteritg the lat.
(b) All parking, loading and unloading shall take place
in side or rear yards.
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(c) Adequate areas shall be provided on the lot for all
loading and unloading operations.
(d) There shall be no parking of vehtcies in any front
yard without approval of a plan therefor by the Planning
Commission.
Section 27.06 HEIGHT: Maximum building height permitted:
30 feet.
Section 27.06.1 Building heights greater than 30 feet may
be permitted upon the securing of a use permit in accordance with
the procedure provided in Section 1$.00 of this ordinance.
Section 27.07 APNEA
Section 27.08 No building or structure or the enlarge-
ment of any building or structure shall be hereafter permitted
unless the following yards and lot areas are provided and
maintained in connection with such building, structure, or
enlargement..
Section 27.09 FRONT YARD: There shall be a front yard
of not less than twenty-five (25) feet; provided however that
an additional one foot in depth shall be added to the minimum
of twenty-five feet for each one foot in height that the main
building exceeds twenty (20) .feet.
Section 27.09.,1 All front yards are to be landscaped
and maintained in a neat and attractive condition at all tunes.
This is not intended to prohibit the construction of
necessary driveways, which also are to be maintained in a neat
and attractive condition at all times,
Section 27.10 SIDE YARDS: Side yards shall be a
minimum of twenty-five (25) feet in width..
Section 27,10.1 Where a lot has its side yard adjacent
to a street the Planning Commission may designate such additional
landscaping and set back requirements necessary to maintain the
area in a uniform character.
Section 27.11 REAR YARD: There shall be a rear yard of
nqt less than ten (10) feet.
Section 27..31.1 inhere a lot has its rear yard adjacent
to a street the Planning Commission may designate such additional
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landscaping and set back requirements as are necessary o
maintain the area in a uniform character.
Section 27012 MAXIMUM BUILDING COVERAGE
Section 27.13 The ground floor area of all buildings
constructed on any one lot shall not exceed forty percent
(40%) of the total area of the lot*
Section 27.14 SIGNS
Section 27015 Signs identifying the name of the company
and products produced by the company shall be permitted if
attached to the main building, except as follows:
(a) No sign shall extend above the cornice line of
the building.
(b) All signs are to be attached parallel to the wall
of the building to which they are attached.
(c) Signs other than those attached to the building
are to be first approved by the Planning Commission
in the manner provided in Section 14.00 (a).
(d) Small directional signs and other signs necessary
to the functioning of the plant are permitted
without approval.
Section 27.16 FENCING
Section 27.1' Fencing of any kind, properly maintained,
and having a uniform and durable character shall be permitted..
No fencing of front yard areas shall be permitted.
Section 27.18 TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION
Section 27019 All main buildings shall be of concrete or
masonry construction, .Office buildings, or office wings
attached to main buildings may be constructed of other materials,
if first approved by the Planning Commission, in accordance with
the provisions of Section 14.00.
Section 27.20 MATERIAL STORAGE
Section 27.21 Storage of raw, in process or finished
material and supplies, and of waste materials shall be
maintained at all times in an enclosed building.
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Section 27.50 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Section 27,51 FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARDS
Section 27.52 All activities involving, and all storage
of, inflammable and explosive materials shall be provided with
adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and
explosion and adequate fire-fighting and fire-supression equip-
ment and devices standard in industry. All incineration is
prohibited.
Section 27.53 RADIOACTIVITY OR ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE
Section 27.54 Devices which radiate radio-frequency
energy shall be so operated as not to cause interference with
any activity carried on beyond the boundary line of the property
upon which the device is located. Radio-frequency energy is
electro-magnetic energy at any frequency in the radio spectrum
between 10 kilocycles and 3 million megacycles.
Section 27.55 NOISE
Section 27.56 The maximum sound pressure level radiated
by any use or facility when measured at the boundary line of
the property on which sound is generated shall not exceed the
values shown in the following table:
Octave Band Range Sound Pressure Level in
in cvcles per Second Decibl.es 0.0002 dyne/cm2
Below 75 72
75 - 150 67
150 - 300 59
300 - 600 52
600 1200 46
1200 - 2100 40
2100 - 4800 34
Above 4800 32
Section 27,57 The sound pressure level shall be measured
with a sound level meter and associated octave band analyzer
conforming to standards prescribed by the American Standards
Association. "American Standards Sound Level Meters for
Measurement of Noise and Other Sounds, 224.3 - 1944, American
Standards Association, Inc., New York, N.Y., and American
Standards Specifications for an Octave-Band Filter'-set-for the
Analysis of Noise and Other Sound, 224.10 - 1953, American
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Standards Association, Inc., New York, N.Y.,`shall be used,.
and the sage are adopted. herewith' b'y reference with the 'same
effect as if. herein set forth in full.
Section 27.58 VIBRATION
Section 27.59 No vibration shall be permitted so as to
cause a noticeable tremor at the lot line.
Section 27.60 SMOKE
Section 27.61 No emission shall be permitted at any
point, from any chimney or otherwise, of visable grey smoke
of a shade equal to or darker than No. 1 on the Standard
"Ringlemann Smoke Chart, Information Circular 7718, as issued
by the United States Bureau of Mines, August, 1955, except
that visable grey smoke of a shade equal to No. 1 on said chart
may be emitted for four (4) minutes in any thirty (30) minutes.
That said Standard Ringlemann Smoke Chart, Information Circular
7718, as issued by the United States Bureau of Mines, August,
1955, is hereby adopted by reference with the same force and
effect as if herein more fully set forth.
Section 27.62 These provisions applicable to visible
grey smoke shall also apply to visible smoke of a different
color but with an apparently equivalent opacity.
Section 27.63 ODORS
Section 27.64 No emission shall be permitted of odorous
gases or other odorous matter in quantities which exceed those
proportions shown in Table III, "Odor Thresholds", in Chapter
5, "Air Pollution Abatement Manual", copyright 1951 by
Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Inc., Washington, D.C..A
which said manual and table are herewith made a part hereof
and adopted by reference as if herein more fully set forth,
Section 27.65 FLY ASH, DUST, FUMES, VAPORS, GASES
AND OTHER FORMS OF AIR POLLUTION
Section 27.66 No emission shall be permitted which
causes any damage to health, to animals, vegetation, or
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other form of property, or which causes soiling, at or beyond
the property line of the property where the emission is
produced,,
Section 27.67 GLARE
Section 27.68 No direct or reflected glare, whether
produced by floodlight, high temperature processes such as
combustion or welding or other processes so as to be visible
from any boundary line of property on which the same is
produced shall be permitted. Sky - reflected glare from
buildings or portions thereof shall be so controlled by such
reasonable means as are practical to the end that the said
sky - reflected glare Vill not inconvenience or annoy persons
or interfere with the use and enjoyment of property in and
about the area where it occurs,
Section 27.69 CODES AND STANDARDS ADOPTED BY REFERENCE:
The Town Council of Town of Los Gatos does hereby adopt
the following enumerated standards and codes for the control
and regulation of noise, smoke, odors, and emissions related
thereto.
l.. All the standards and provisions for the measurement
of sound pressure levels prescribed by the American Standards
Association including American Standards Sound Level Meters for
Measurement of Noise and other sounds, 224.3 - 1944, American
Standards Association Inc., New York, N.Y., and American
Standards Specifications for an Octave-Band Filter Set for
the analysis of Noise and other Sound, 224.10 - 1953, American
Standards Association, Inc.$ (three copies of which have been
filed for use and examination by the public in the office of
the Town Clerk) are hereby referred to and are hereby adopted
and made a part hereof as if fully set forth in-this ordinance,
2.. All the standards and provisions for the measurement
and control of smoke prescribed by the Standard Ringlemann
Smoke Chart, Information Circular 7718 as issued by the United
States Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior,
August, 1955 (three copies of which have been filed for use and
examination by the public in the office of the Town Clerk) are
hereby adopted and made a part hereof as if fully set forth
in this ordinance.
3. All the standards and provisions for the measurement
a4 control of odorous gases or other odorous matters, and
particularly Table III entitled "Odor Thresholds" in Chapter 5.,
"Air Pollution Abatement Manual", Copyright 1951 by Manufacturing
Chemistst Association, Inc.., Washington, D.C., (three copies of
which have been filed for use and examination by the public in
the office of the Town Clerk) are hereby referred to and are
hereby adopted and made a part hereof, the same as if fully set
forth in this ordinance.
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SECTION FOUR* Introduced.at a regular meeting of the
Town Council of the Town of Los: Gatos, State of California,
held on the day of ' 1958.
PASSED AND ADOPTED as an Ordinance of the Town-of Las
Gatos, State of California, at a regular meeting of the Town
Council thereof, held on the L' day of
195$2 by the following vote.
AYES: COUNCIIAE : a A!?,Z,
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NOES: COUNCILMEN:
ABSENT : COUNCILMEN: re.-
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Mayor of the Town of Los Gatos.
ATTEST;
Beverly Blatnick
Clerk of the Town of Los Gatos
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