Daly City has no data-center ordinance and no "data center" use in its zoning code. A data center lands in the M Industrial District, Chapter 17.22, where light industrial uses require a Use Permit approved after a Planning Commission hearing.
Daly City's Zoning Ordinance is Title 17 of the Municipal Code. Chapter 17.22 creates the M Industrial District and contains one section, 17.22.010, a table of uses. Uses permitted in the C-2 Heavy Commercial District carry through with no use permit; light industrial, including assembly and manufacturing, requires one. A data center is not listed, so the City classifies it against the closest listed use under the C-2 table's unlisted-use rule. A Use Permit runs through Chapter 17.44: a noticed Planning Commission public hearing, findings, then City Council action, with CEQA review attached. The city's only industrial area sits in the Bayshore neighborhood north of MacDonald Avenue.
Operating a data center without a required Use Permit violates Title 17. Chapter 17.50 lets the city attorney sue to enjoin any violation, and the remedies are cumulative.
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