Bishop has no cryptocurrency-mining ordinance. A commercial mining facility is treated as an industrial use in the M-1 district under Chapter 17.60, approved by the planning commission as a similar use, and bound by the Chapter 8.12 nuisance noise standard.
The Bishop Municipal Code contains no crypto, bitcoin, or blockchain use and no energy cap on mining. A building of mining rigs draws power and throws off heat and fan noise like any data center, so the city classifies it into the M-1 General Industrial District under Chapter 17.60. Because 17.60.030 does not list it, the planning commission decides under 17.60.050 whether the use is similar to the listed manufacturing, warehousing, and processing uses, and issues a use permit. Home mining is ordinary residential use, held to the Chapter 8.12 noise standard.
There are no crypto-specific penalties in Bishop. A commercial mining operation outside M-1, or running without the land use permit required by 17.80.030, is a Title 17 zoning violation.
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