Uses specifically prohibited.
Riverside Municipal Code § 19.130.025
in effect19.130.025 - Uses specifically prohibited.
A. The following uses are specifically prohibited in any industrial zone:
1. Any residential use other than permitted caretaker housing
2. Ammonia, chlorine or bleaching powder manufacture
3. Animal slaughtering
4. Asphalt batching plant and rock, sand and gravel pit crushing and screening plant
5. Automobile wrecking, dismantling, and salvage yards
6. Bone, coal or wood distillation
7. Brick, tile or clay products manufacture
8. Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacture, except that the manufacture of cement products shall be permitted
9. Explosive manufacture or storage
10. Fat rendering
11. Fertilizer manufacture
12. Foundry or smelting of ferrous metals, steel mill or boiler works
13. Garbage, offal, dead animal or refuse incineration, reduction or dumping
14. Glue manufacture
15. Hydrochloric, nitric or sulfuric acid manufacture
16. Junk, rag or scrap iron storage yards or bailing
17. Petroleum refining or petroleum products manufacture
18. Rock, sand or gravel excavating
19. Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture
20. Soap manufacture
21. Stockyard, cattle-feeding yard or hog ranch
22. Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining
23. Tanning, curing or storing of raw hides or skins
24. Other uses that, by written decision of the Community & Economic Development Director or his/her designee, are determined to be detrimental to the public welfare by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration or other causes.
(Ord. 7331 §7, 2016; Ord. 6966 §1, 2007)
Source: City of Riverside, California, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ca/riverside/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_TIT19ZO_ARTVBAZOREUSDEPR_CH19.130INZOBMIAIAI_19.130.025USSPPRFetched: 11/1/2026