Maintenance and Repair Services. Establishments engaged in the maintenance or repair of office machines, household appliances, furniture, and similar items. This classification includes base facilities for various businesses that provide services on the premises of their clients such as gardening, janitorial, pest control, water and smoke damage recovery, and appliance services (computer, electronic, elevator, equipment, plumbing, and other maintenance and repair services not operating from a retail establishment that sells the products being maintained or repaired. This classification excludes maintenance and repair of vehicles or boats (see “Vehicle Sales and Services”), office-only facilities with no storage of the equipment that is serviced (see “Offices”), and personal apparel (see “Personal Services”).

Manufacturing—Heavy. Manufacturing of products from extracted or raw materials or recycled or secondary materials, or bulk storage and handling of such products and materials. This classification includes operations such as biomass energy conversion; textile mills; leather and allied product manufacturing; wood product manufacturing; paper manufacturing; chemical manufacturing; plastics and rubber products manufacturing; nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing (such as sand, gravel, or clay into products for intermediate or final consumption); primary metal manufacturing; fabricated metal product manufacturing; petroleum refining and related industries; and automotive, ship, aircraft, and heavy equipment manufacturing. Includes accessory office uses associated with the on-site use. This classification does not include recycling (see “Recycling”) or the processing of animals.

Manufacturing—Light. A use engaged in the manufacture, predominately from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, and treatment packaging, taking place primarily within enclosed buildings and producing minimal impacts on nearby properties. Includes accessory wholesale and/or direct retail sale to consumers of only those goods produced on site. Includes accessory office uses associated with the on-site use. Examples of light industrial uses include but are not limited to the manufacture of electronic instruments, equipment, and appliances; brewery and alcohol production, pharmaceutical manufacturing; and production apparel manufacturing.

Manufacturing (Nonvolatile). The production, preparation, propagation, or compounding of cannabis or cannabis products either directly or indirectly or by extraction methods, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, using nonvolatile organic or inorganic compounds (see “Manufacturing (Volatile)”), at a fixed location, that packages or repackages cannabis or cannabis products, or labels or relabels its containers.

Manufacturing (Volatile). The production, preparation, propagation, or compounding of cannabis or cannabis products either directly or indirectly or by extraction methods, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, using volatile organic compounds, at a fixed location, that packages or repackages cannabis or cannabis products, or labels or relabels its containers.

Marijuana. See “Cannabis.”

Market, General. “See Food and Beverage Sales—General Market.”

Media Production. Fixed-base facilities for motion picture, television, video, sound, computer, and other communications production. These facilities include the following types:

Medical Marijuana. See “Medicinal Cannabis.”

Medicinal Cannabis or Medicinal Cannabis Product. Cannabis or a cannabis product, respectively, intended to be sold for use pursuant to the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 (Proposition 215), found at Section 11362.5 of the Health and Safety Code, by a medicinal cannabis patient in California who possesses a physician’s recommendation.

Medical Office. “See Office—Medical and Dental Offices.”

Microbusiness. Allows a single business to integrate cultivation, manufacturing, distribution and retail sales.

Mineral Extraction. The commercial surface mining or quarrying operations for aggregates (sand and gravel) or other surface or subsurface minerals and materials from the earth.

Mixed-Light Cultivation. Cultivation of cannabis using a combination of natural and supplemental artificial lighting (e.g., a greenhouse using natural light during the day and artificial light during the night). Mixed-light cultivation is not allowed.

Mixed-Use Development. A development that combines both nonresidential and residential uses, where the residential component may be live/work as defined in Section 17.158.028 and is typically located above or behind the commercial. (See also Section 17.70.130, Mixed-use development.)

Mobile Home Park. A parcel of land under one or more ownerships that has been planned and improved for the placement of two or more mobile homes, as the term “mobile home” is defined in Civil Code Section 798.3 or successor provision of the State Mobile Home Residency Law, for nontransient use.

Multi-Unit Dwellings. Two or more dwelling units attached or detached, not including any accessory dwelling units, on a site or lot. Types of multiple unit dwellings include a duplex, townhouses, common interest subdivisions, garden apartments, senior housing developments, and multistory apartment buildings. Multi-unit dwellings may also be combined with nonresidential uses as part of a mixed-use development. (Ord. 1705 §§ 99, 100, 2021; Ord. 1650 § 3 (Exh. B), 2018: Ord. 1647 § 7 (Exh. D (part)), 2018)