Menifee has no data-center ordinance and no "data center" use in its Development Code. Because the city's use table treats unlisted uses as not permitted, a data center needs a Similar Use Determination before it can go into a BP or HI zone.
The City of Menifee adopted its own Development Code in 2019, separate from Riverside County's Ordinance No. 348. Table 9.135.030-1 lists allowed uses for the Commercial Retail, Commercial Office, Business Park, and Heavy Industry zones. "Data center" appears nowhere in it. Section 9.135.030.C states that uses not listed are not permitted, and the Community Development Director must issue a Similar Use Determination under Chapter 9.95 before the use can proceed. The nearest listed matches are Laboratories, research and development (permitted in BP), Manufacturing, Light-Intensity (permitted in BP and HI), and Utility offices, uses, and structures (permitted in all four zones). A conditional use permit brings CEQA review and a Planning Commission hearing.
Operating a data center without the Similar Use Determination, or outside the zone it was approved for, is a Development Code violation enforced by Code Enforcement through stop-work orders, citations, and abatement.
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