Garden Grove has no cryptocurrency-mining ordinance. A commercial mining facility is treated like any data center - sited in the M-1 or M-P industrial zone and bound by the Chapter 8.47 noise limits. Home mining is ordinary residential use, subject to the same property-line noise rules.
Garden Grove's Municipal Code has no crypto-mining, bitcoin, or blockchain use category and no energy cap targeting mining. A warehouse of mining rigs draws power and produces heat and noise like a data center, so the Zoning Administrator classifies it into the nearest listed industrial use in the Land Use Matrix and locates it in an M-1 or M-P zone - permitted by right as an industrial use unless it triggers a Conditional Use Permit. Continuous cooling noise must stay within Chapter 8.47: at a residential property line the base limit is 55 dB(A) daytime and 50 dB(A) overnight, with a 5 dB(A) exceedance allowance. Home-based mining is residential use, subject to the same property-line noise limits.
There are no crypto-specific penalties. A commercial mining operation outside an industrial zone, or without a required Conditional Use Permit, is a zoning violation, and noise over the Chapter 8.47 limits is enforced by the City.
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