HomeMy WebLinkAbout3129Ordinance No. 3129
["Beginning July 1, 1998"]
(Amending or Repealing Ordinances)
REPEALED BY: Ord. 3409
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ORDINANCE NO. �-,R-
AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the
(Vo City of Kent, amending the Zoning Code to
allow the sport of Indoor Paintball as a
permitted use in the M-1, Industrial Park
district, and M-2, Limited Industrial
district.
WHEREAS, the City Council has established a regulatory
review process to give citizens a chance to recommend changes to
the uses enumerated in the different zoning classifications in the
Zoning Code; and
WHEREAS, in March of 1993, a citizen filed a regulatory
review request which proposes that the Kent Zoning Code be amended
to allow the sport of Indoor Paintball as a permitted use in the
M-1, Industrial Park district, and the M-2, Limited Industrial
district, and
WHEREAS, the M-1 and M-2 zoning districts currently allow
a wide range of industrial and warehousing type uses and the sport
of Indoor Paintball is not incompatible with the other industrial
uses in the zoning districts; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on
July 26, 1993, and voted to recommend that Section 15.04.170A and
15.04.180A, of the Kent Zoning Code, be amended to allow the sport
of Indoor Paintball as a permitted use in the M-1, Industrial Park
district, and the M-2, Limited Industrial district; and
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WHEREAS, the Kent City Council considered the Planning
Commission recommendation on September 7, 1993 and concurred with
the proposed amendment to the M-1 and M-2 zones; NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 15.04.170A of the Kent City Code is
amended to add a new principally permitted use, renumerated as a
new subsection 16, to read as follows:
Sec. 15.04.170. Industrial park district, M1 or M1 -C.
The purpose of the M-1 district is to provide an
environment exclusively for and conducive to the development and
protection of a broad range of industrial activities, including
modern, large scale administrative facilities, research
institutions and specialized manufacturing organizations, all of a
non -nuisance type. This district is intended to provide areas for
those industrial activities that desire to conduct business in an
atmosphere of prestige location in which environmental amenities
are protected through a high level of development standards. It is
also the purpose of this zone to allow certain limited commercial
land uses that provide necessary personal and business services for
the general industrial area. Such uses are allowed in the M1
district, through the application of the "C'' suffix, at
centralized, nodal locations where major arterials intersect.
A. Principally permitted uses, M1 district. The
following list is illustrative of the types of permitted uses and
is not intended to be exclusive:
1. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and
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Ipackaging of articles, products or merchandise from previously
prepared natural or synthetic materials, including but not limited
to asbestos, bristles, bone, canvas, cellophane and similar
synthetics, chalk, clay (pulverized only, with gas or electric
kilns), cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass (including
glass finishing), graphite, hair, horn, leather, paints (except
boiling processes) paper, paraffin, plastic and resins, precious or
semiprecious metals or stones, putty, pumice, rubber, shell,
textiles, tobacco, wire, wood, wool and yarn.
2. Manufacturing, processing, treating, assembling
and packaging of articles, products or merchandise from previously
prepared ferrous, nonferrous or alloyed metals (such as bar stock
sheets, tubes, and wire and other extrusions), including light
foundry casting and forging operations and other forming
operations.
3. Printing, publishing and allied industries,
including such processes as lithography, etching, engraving,
binding, blueprinting, photocopying, film processing and similar
operations or activities.
4. Manufacturing, processing, blending and
packaging of the following:
a. Drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and
cosmetics.
b. Food and kindred products, such as
confectionery products, chocolate, cereal breakfast foods, bakery
products, paste products, fruits and vegetables, beer, beverages
(except fermenting and distilling), prepared food specialties (such
as coffee, dehydrated and instant foods, extracts, spices and
dressings) and similar products.
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C. Dairy products and byproducts, such as
milk, cream, cheese and butter, including the processing and
bottling of fluid milk and cream and wholesale distribution.
5. Warehousing and distribution facilities and the
storage of goods or products, except for those goods or products
specifically described as permitted to be stored only as
conditional uses in the M3 district.
6. Crop and tree farming.
7. Administrative or executive offices which are
part of a predominant industrial operation.
8. Scientific research, testing and experimental
development laboratories.
9. Establishments engaged in electronic,
automotive, aerospace, missile, airframe or related manufacturing
and assembly activities, including precision machine shops
producing parts, accessories, assemblies, systems, engines, major
components and whole electronic or electrical devices, automobiles,
aircraft, missiles, aerospace or underwater vehicles, or similar
products, including research and test facilities, but specifically
excluding explosive fuels and propellants.
10. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and
packaging of precision components and products, including precision
machine shops for products such as radio and television equipment,
business machine equipment, home appliances, scientific, optical,
medical, dental and drafting instruments, photographic and optical
goods, phonograph records and prerecorded audiovisual tape,
measurement and control devices, sound equipment and supplies,
personal accessories, and products of similar character.
11. Headquarters offices of industrial operations.
12. Alcoholic beverage processes, such as
distilling and fermenting.
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13. Retail uses as follows:
a. Merchandise vending machine operators.
b. Tires, batteries and accessories for
industrial vehicles and equipment.
C. Eating places, except drive-ins or those
with drive-in or drive-through facilities.
14. Administrative, professional, medical,
financial and business offices and services, including but not
limited to the following:
a. Finance insurance and real estate
services.
(1)
Banking and related services.
(2)
Security brokers and dealers
and
related services.
(3)
Commodity brokers and dealers
and
related services.
(4)
Insurance carriers.
(5)
Insurance brokers and agents
and
related services.
(6)
Real estate operators, lessors
and
management services.
(7)
Real estate agents and brokers
and
related services.
(8)
Real estate subdividing
and
developing services.
(9)
Housing and investment services.
b.
Personal services.
(1)
Linen supply and industrial laundry
services.
(2)
Diaper services.
(3)
Rug cleaning and repair services.
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(4)
Photographic services.
(5)
Beauty and barber services.
(6)
Fur repair and storage services.
C. Business-services.-
usinessservices.(1)
(1)
Advertising services.
(2)
Outdoor advertising services.
(3)
Consumer and mercantile credit
reporting services, and adjustment and collection services.
(4)
Direct mail advertising services.
(5)
Stenographic services and other
duplicating and mailing services.
(6)
Window cleaning services.
(7)
Disinfecting and exterminating
services.
preparation facilities.
services.
services.
services.
(8) News syndicate services.
(9) Employment services.
(10) Food lockers, with or without food
(11) Business and management consulting
(12) Detective and protective services.
(13) Equipment rental and leasing
(14) Automobile and truck rental services.
(15) Motion picture distribution services.
(16) Travel agencies.
d. Repair services.
(1) Electrical repair services.
(2) Radio and television repair services.
(3) Reupholstery and furniture repair
n.
(4) Armature rewinding services.
e. Professional services.
(1) Medical and dental laboratory
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(2) Legal services.
(3) Engineering and architectural
I services.
(4) Educational and scientific research
services.
(5) Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping
services.
(6) Urban planning services.
(7) Counseling services.
f. Contract construction services.
(1) Building construction, general
contractor services.
conditioning services.
services.
plastering services.
(2) Plumbing, heating and air
(3) Painting, paperhanging and decorating
(4) Electrical services.
(5) Masonry, stonework, tile setting and
(6) Carpentering and wood flooring.
(7) Roofing and sheetmetal services.
(8) Concrete services.
(9) Water well drilling services.
g. Educational services.
(1) Vocational or trade schools.
(2) Business and stenographic schools.
(3) Driving schools, truck.
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h. Miscellaneous services.
(1) Business associations and
organizations.
(2) Labor unions and similar labor
organizations.
(3) Health and fitness clubs and
facilities.
Other service uses are permitted which may be deemed
by the planning director to be of the same general character as and
compatible with those uses listed in this subsection.
15. Gymnastic schools and similar uses.
16. Indoor Paintball.
16-. 17. Other similar uses which the planning director
finds compatible with the principally permitted uses described in
this subsection, consistent with the purpose and intent of the M1
district and not of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining
properties.
17. 18. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and
otherwise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for existing
dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages, carports,
storage sheds and fences.
4-8— 19. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such
uses and buildings subject to section 15.04.200.
B. Principally permitted uses in M1 -C district ("CIO
suffix). The following commercial uses are permitted in addition
to those listed in subsection A. of this section on properties
designated with the "C'' suffix pursuant to procedures specified
in section 15.09.050. This list is intended to be illustrative of
the types of commercial uses permitted.
1. Automotive service, maintenance and repair facilities.
2. Bakeries and confectioneries.
3. Computer and software stores.
4. Convenience and deli marts, with a maximum
gross floor area of three thousand (3,000) square feet.
5. Convention facilities.
6. Exhibition halls and art galleries.
7. Hotel or motel.
8. Liquor stores.
9. Magazine and newspaper stands.
10. Printing services.
11. Private post offices.
12. Shoe repair.
13. Stationery and office supply stores.
14. Tailoring.
Other similar uses are permitted which the planning
director finds compatible with the principally permitted uses
described in this subsection, consistent with the purpose and
intent of the M1 district and not of a type to adversely affect the
use of adjoining properties.
C. Special permit uses. The following uses are
permitted provided they conform to the development standards listed
in section 15.08.020:
1. Gasoline service stations, with or without
retail convenience grocery sales.
2. Nursery schools and day care centers.
D. Accessory uses. The following are the accessory
uses permitted in the M1 district:
1. Repair operations for products as described as
principally permitted uses, and sales and service incidental to a
principally permitted use, provided such operations are housed as
i a part of the buildings comprising the basic operation.
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2. Dwelling units, limited to not more than one
(1) per establishment, for security or maintenance personnel and
their families, when located on the premises where they are
employed in such capacity. No other residential use shall be
permitted.
3. Employee recreation facilities and play areas.
4. Restaurant, cafe or cafeteria operated in
conjunction with a principally permitted use for the convenience of
persons employed on the premises.
5. Nursery schools and day care facilities
operated in conjunction with a permitted use.
6. For permitted uses, hazardous substance land
uses, including onsite hazardous waste treatment or storage
facilities, which are not subject to cleanup permit requirements of
chapter 11.02 and which do not accumulate more than twenty thousand
(20,000) pounds of hazardous substances or wastes or any
combination thereof at any one (1) time on the site, subject to the
provisions of section 15.08.050. Offsite hazardous waste treatment
or storage facilities are not permitted in this district, except
through a special use combining district.
7. Other accessory uses and buildings customarily
appurtenant to a principally permitted use.
8. The following are accessory uses which are
allowed only in the M1 -C district in cases where development plans
demonstrate a relationship between these uses and the principal
uses of the property:
a. Gift shops.
b. Florist shops.
C. Specialty clothing stores.
E. Conditional uses. The following are the types of
conditional uses permitted in the M1 district, subject to approval
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by the hearing examiner. The list of conditional permitted uses is
illustrative of the types of uses which shall be permitted, and is
not intended to be exclusive:
1. Any principally permitted use whose operations
are predominantly conducted out-of-doors rather than completely
I, enclosed within a building.
2. Any type of principally permitted use whose
operations are predominantly for the repair of products described
rather than the manufacturing or processing of such products.
j 3. General conditional uses as listed in section
15.08.030.
4. Car loading and distribution facilities, and
rail -truck transfer stations.
5. Manufacturing of paint.
6. For permitted uses, accessory hazardous
substance land uses which are not subject to cleanup permit
requirements of chapter 11.02 and which accumulate more than twenty
thousand (20,000) pounds of hazardous substances or wastes or any
combination thereof at any one (1) time on the site, subject to the
provisions of section 15.08.050. Offsite hazardous waste treatment
or storage facilities are not permitted in this district, except
through a special use combining district.
F. Development standards.
1. Minimum lot. Minimum lot area is one (1) acre.
2. Maximum site coverage. Maximum site coverage
is sixty (60) percent.
3. Yards generally.
a. Front yard. The minimum front yard
setback shall be related to the classification of the adjacent
street. This classification shall be determined by the city
transportation engineer. The setbacks are as follows:
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(1) Properties fronting on arterial and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of forty (40) feet.
(2) Properties fronting on local access
streets shall have a minimum setback of thirty (30) feet.
b. Side yard on flanking street of corner
lot. The minimum side yard on the flanking street of a corner lot
shall be related to the classification of the adjacent street. This
classification shall be determined by the city transportation',
engineer. The setbacks are as follows:
(1) Properties fronting on arterial and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of forty (40) feet.)
(2) Properties fronting on local access
streets shall have a minimum setback of thirty (30) feet.
C. Side yards. The side yards shall have an
aggregate width of ten (10) percent of the lot width, but the
aggregate width need not be more than forty (40) feet. There shall
be a minimum of fifteen (15) feet on each side.
d. Rear yard. No rear yard is required,
except as may be required by other setback provisions of this
section.
4. Yards transitional conditions. Transitional
conditions shall exist when an industrial park M1 district adjoins
a residential district containing a density of two (2) dwelling
units or more per acre or a proposed residential area indicated on
the city comprehensive plan. Such transitional conditions shall not
exist where the separation includes intervening use such as a
river, freeway, railroad main line, major topographic differential
or other similar conditions, or where the industrial properties
face on a limited access surface street on which the housing does
not face. When transitional conditions exist as defined in this
subsection, a yard of not less than fifty (50) feet shall be
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provided.
5. Setbacks, Green River. Development in the M1
district abutting the Green River, or Russell Road or Frager Road
where such roads follow the river bank, shall be set back from the
ordinary high-water mark of the river a minimum of two hundred
(200) feet. Such setbacks are in accordance with the state
Shoreline Management Act of 1971, and shall be no more restrictive
than, but as restrictive as, the Shoreline Management Act.
6. Height limitation. The height limitation is
two (2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet. Beyond this height, to a
height not greater than either four (4) stories or sixty (60) feet,
there shall be added one (1) additional foot of yard for each one
(1) foot of additional building height. The planning director shall
be authorized to approve one (1) additional story, provided such
!' height does not detract from the continuity of the industrial area,
ii and may impose such conditions as may be necessary to reduce any
incompatibility with surrounding uses. Any additional height
increase may be granted by the planning commission.
7. Landscaping. The landscaping requirements of
chapter 15.07 shall apply. Where building walls face adjacent
ii streets and are unfenestrated for more than forty (40) feet at any,
point along the facade, additional landscaping shall be required to
j, reduce visual impacts. In such circumstances, type II landscaping
as defined in section 15.07.050 shall be required, provided that
evergreen trees shall be at least ten (10) feet in height and
deciduous trees shall be a minimum of two-inch caliper at time of
planting.
8. Enclosure of activities. Predominant
activities and operations shall be completely enclosed within
buildings or structures, except for customary appurtenances such as
loading and unloading areas, or where special conditions exist as
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a result of a conditional use public hearing. The planning director
shall be authorized to determine the reasonable application of this
provision in cases of operational hardship or other showing of
uncommon circumstances.
9. Outside storage or operations vards. Outside
storage or operations yards in the M1 zone shall be permitted only
as accessory uses. Such uses are incidental and subordinate to the
principal use of the property or structure. Outside storage or
operations yards shall be confined to the area to the rear of the
principal building or the rear two-thirds of the property and
reasonably screened from view from any property line by appropriate
walls, fencing, earth mounds or landscaping. Outside storage
exceeding a height of fifteen (15) feet shall be so placed on the ll
property as to not detract from the reasonably accepted appearances
of the district.
10. Loading areas.
a. Loading areas must be located in such a
manner that no loading, unloading or maneuvering of trucks
associated therewith takes place on public rights-of-way.
b. Earth berms and landscaping shall be
provided along street frontages as necessary to screen dock-high
loading areas from public rights-of-way. Berms shall be a minimum
of thirty-six (36) inches and a maximum of forty-two (42) inches in
height. Landscaping located on the berm shall conform to type III
landscaping as described in subsection 15.07.050 C.
11. Multitenant buildincts. Multitenant buildings
shall be permitted.
12. Improvement and maintenance of yards and open
space. All required yards, parking areas, storage areas, operations
yards and other open uses on the site shall be maintained in a neat
and orderly manner appropriate for the district at all times. The
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planning director shall be authorized to reasonably pursue the
enforcement of this subsection where a use is in violation, and to
notify the owner or operator of the use in writing of such
noncompliance. The property owner or operator of the use shall be
given a reasonable length of time to correct the condition.
G. Signs. The sign regulations of chapter 15.06 shall
apply. Signage on commercial uses in the M1 -C zone shall be as
specified in subsection 15.06.050 B.
H. offstreet parking.
1. The offstreet parking requirements of chapter
15.05 shall apply.
2. Those areas not required to be landscaped may
be used for offstreet parking.
I. Performance standards. The performance standards as
provided in section 15.08.050 shall apply.
J. Development plan review. Development plan approval
is required as provided in section 15.09.010.
Section 2. Section 15 A.180A of the Kent City Code is
amended to add a new principally permitted use, renumerated as a
new subsection 16, to read as follows:
sec. 15.04.180. Limited industrial district, M2.
The purpose of the M2 district is to provide areas
suitable for a broad range of industrial activities whose
characteristics are of a light industrial nature. The permitted
uses are similar to those of the industrial park district, but the
development standards are not as restrictive. However, development
standards are aimed at maintaining an efficient and desirable
industrial area.
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A. Principally permitted uses. The following list is
illustrative of the types of permitted uses and is not intended to
be exclusive:
1. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and
packaging of articles, products or merchandise from previously
prepared natural or synthetic materials, including but not limited
to asbestos, bristles, bone, canvas, cellophane and similar
synthetics, chalk, clay (pulverized only, with gas or electric
kilns), cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass (including
glass finishing), graphite, hair, horn, leather, paints (except
boiling processes), paper, paraffin, plastic and resins, precious
or semiprecious metals or stones, putty, pumice, rubber, shell,
textiles, tobacco, wire, wood, wool and yarn.
2. Manufacturing, processing, treating, assembling
and packaging of articles, products or merchandise from previously
prepared ferrous, nonferrous or alloyed metals (such as bar stock
sheets, tubes, and wire and other extrusions), including light
foundry casting and forging operations and other forming
operations.
3. Printing, publishing and allied industries,
including such processes as lithography, etching, engraving,
binding, blueprinting, photocopying, film processing and similar
operations or activities.
4. Manufacturing, processing, blending and
packaging of the following:
a. Drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and
cosmetics.
b. Food and kindred products, such as
confectionery products, chocolate, cereal breakfast foods, bakery
products, paste products, fruits and vegetables, beer, beverages
(except fermenting and distilling), prepared food specialties (such
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as coffee, dehydrated and instant foods, extracts, spices and
dressings), previously butchered meat or seafood packaging,
freezing and processing (excluding rendering, curing, canning or
slaughtering) and similar products.
C. Dairy products and byproducts such as
milk, cream, cheese and butter, including the processing and
bottling of fluid milk and cream and wholesale distribution.
5. Warehousing and distribution facilities and the
storage of goods or products, including rail -truck transfer
facilities.
6. Crop and tree farming.
7. Administrative or executive offices which are
part of a predominant industrial operation.
8. Scientific research, testing and experimental
development laboratories.
9. Establishments engaged in electronic,
automotive, aerospace, missile, airframe or related manufacturing
and assembly activities, including precision machine shops
producing parts, accessories, assemblies, systems, engines, major
components and whole electronic or electrical devices, automobiles,
aircraft, missiles, aerospace or underwater vehicles or similar
products, but specifically excluding explosive fuels and
propellants.
10. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and
packaging of precision components and products, including precision
machine shops for products such as radio and television equipment,,
business machine equipment, home appliances, scientific, optical,
medical, dental and drafting instruments, photographic and optical
goods, phonograph records and prerecorded audiovisual tape,
measurement and control devices, sound equipment and supplies,
personal accessories, and products of similar character.
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11. Headquarters offices of industrial operations.
12. Alcoholic beverage processes, such as
distilling and fermenting.
13. Retail and service uses as listed in this
subsection. These uses are intended primarily to serve the needs of
the industrial area, are compatible with the permitted types of
industrial uses, and will not interfere with the orderly
development of the industrial area. Such uses shall be limited to
twenty-five (25) percent of the gross floor area of any single- or
multi -building development. Retail and service uses which exceed
the twenty-five (25) percent limit on an individual or cumulative
basis shall be subject to review individually through the
conditional use permit process. (See subsection 15.04.180 D.3.)
a. Retail trade uses.
(1) Merchandise vending machine
operators.
(2) Tires, batteries and accessories
(industrial sales).
(3) Eating places, except drive-ins or
those with drive-through facilities.
b. Service uses.
(1) Finance insurance and real estate
services.
related services.
and related services.
related services.
(a) Banking and related services.
(b) Security brokers and dealers and
(c) Commodity brokers and dealers
(d) Insurance carriers.
(e) Insurance brokers and agents and
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(f) Real estate operators, lessors
and management services.
(g) Real estate agents and brokers
and related services.
(h) Real estate subdividing and
developing services.
(i) Housing and investment services.
(2) Personal services.
(a) Linen supply and industrial
laundry services.
(b) Diaper services.
(c) Rug cleaning and repair
services.
(d) Photographic services.
(e) Beauty and barber services.
(f) Fur repair and storage services.
(3) Business services.
(a) Advertising services (general).
(b) outdoor advertising services.
(c) Consumer and mercantile credit
reporting services, and adjustment and collection services.
(d) Direct mail advertising
services.
(e) Stenographic services and other
duplicating and mailing services.
(f) Window cleaning services.
(g) Disinfecting and exterminating
services.
(h) News syndicate services.
(i) Employment services.
(j) Food lockers, with or without
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food preparation facilities.
(o)
Motion picture distribution
(k)
Business
and
management
consulting services.
Travel agencies.
(4) Repair services.
(a)
(1)
Detective
and
protective
services.
(m)
Equipment
rental
and leasing
services.
repair services.
d)
(n)
Automobile
and
truck rental
services.
(o)
Motion picture distribution
services.
(p)
Travel agencies.
(4) Repair services.
(a)
Electrical repair services.
(b)
Radio and television repair
services.
(c)
Reupholstery and furniture
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repair services.
d)
Armature rewinding services.
(5) Professional services.
(a)
Medical and dental laboratory
services.
(b)
Legal services.
(c)
Engineering and architectural
services.
(d)
Educational and scientific
research services.
(e)
Accounting, auditing and
bookkeeping services.
(f)
Urban planning services.
(g)
Counseling services.
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(6)
Contract construction services.
(a)
Building construction, general
contractor services.
(b)
Plumbing, heating and air
conditioning services.
(c)
Painting, paperhanging and
decorating services.
(d)
Electrical services.
(e)
Masonry, stonework, tile setting
and plastering services.
(f)
Carpentering and wood flooring.
(g)
Roofing and sheetmetal services.
(h)
Concrete services.
(i)
Water well drilling services.
(7)
Educational services.
(a)
Vocational or trade schools.
(b)
Business and stenographic
schools.
(c)
Driving schools, truck.
(8)
Miscellaneous services.
(a)
Business associations andl
organizations.
(b)
Labor unions and similar labor
organizations.
Other retail trade and service uses
are permitted which may be deemed by the planning director to be of
the same general character as and compatible with those uses listed
in this subsection.
14. Gymnastic schools and similar uses.
15. Health and fitness clubs and facilities.
16. Indoor Paintball.
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4-6: 17. Other similar uses which the planning director
finds compatible with the principally permitted uses described in
this subsection, consistent with the purpose and intent of the M2
district and not of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining
properties.
3�— 18. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and
otherwise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for existing
dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages, carports,
storage sheds and fences.
48- 19. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such
uses and buildings subject to section 15.04.200.
B. Special _permit uses. The following uses are
permitted provided they conform to the development standards listed
in section 15.08.020:
1. Gasoline service stations, with or without'
retail convenience grocery sales.
2. Nursery schools and day care centers.
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C. Accessory uses. The following are the accessory uses
permitted in the M2 district:
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1. Repair operations for products described asl
principally permitted uses and sales and service incidental to a'
principally permitted use, provided such operations are housed as
a part of the buildings comprising the basic operations.
2. Dwelling units, limited to not more than one,
(1) per establishment, for security or maintenance personnel and
their families, when located on the premises where they are
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employed in such capacity. No other residential use shall be�
permitted.
3. Employee recreation facilities and play areas.!
4. Restaurant, cafe or cafeteria operated ini
conjunction with a principally permitted use for the convenience of
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persons employed on the premises.
5. Nursery schools and day care facilities
operated in conjunction with a permitted use.
6. Other accessory uses and buildings customarily
appurtenant to a principally permitted use.
7. For permitted uses, hazardous substance land
uses, including onsite hazardous waste treatment or storage
facilities, which are not subject to cleanup permit requirements of
chapter 11.02 and which do not accumulate more than twenty thousand
(20,000) pounds of hazardous substances or wastes or any
combination thereof at any one (1) time on the site, subject to the
provisions of section 15.08.050. Offsite hazardous waste treatment
or storage facilities are not permitted in this district, except
through a special use combining district.
D. Conditional uses. The following are the types of
conditional uses permitted in the M2 district, subject to approval)
by the hearing examiner. The list of conditionally permitted uses
is illustrative of the types of uses which shall be permitted and
is not intended to be exclusive:
1. Any principally permitted use whose operations
are predominantly conducted out-of-doors rather than completely
enclosed within a building.
2. Any type of principally permitted use whose
operations are predominantly for the repair of products described
rather than the manufacturing or processing of such products.
3. Retail and service uses as listed in subsection
15.04.180 A.13. which individually or on a cumulative basis exceed
twenty-five (25) percent of the gross floor area of any single- or
multi -building development.
Conditional use permits shall be required on an
individual tenant or business basis and shall be granted only when
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it is demonstrated that the operational characteristics of the use
will not adversely impact onsite or offsite conditions on either an
individual or cumulative basis.
4. General conditional uses as listed in section
15.08.030.
5. Principally permitted uses in the M3 districts.
6. Manufacturing of paint.
7. Automobile service centers, with or without
gasoline sales.
8. Source separation and recovery of recyclable
materials for solid wastes.
9. For permitted uses, accessory hazardous
substance land uses which are not subject to cleanup permit
requirements of chapter 11.02 and which accumulate more than twenty
thousand (20,000) pounds of hazardous substances or wastes or any
combination thereof at any one (1) time on the site, subject to the
provisions of section 15.08.050. Offsite hazardous waste treatment)
or storage facilities are not permitted in this district, except
through a special use combining district.
E. Development standards.
1. Minimum lot. Minimum lot area is twenty
thousand (20,000) square feet.
2. Maximum site coverage. Maximum site coverage
is sixty-five (65) percent.
3. Yards, generally.
a. Front yard. The minimum front yard
setback shall be related to the classification of the adjacent
street. This classification shall be determined by the city
transportation engineer. The setbacks are as follows:
(1) Properties fronting on arterials and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of forty (40) feet.
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(2) Properties fronting on local access streets shall have a
minimum setback of thirty (30) feet.
b. Side yard on flanking street of comer
lot. The minimum side yard on the flanking street of a corner lot
shall be related to the classification of the adjacent street. This
classification shall be determined by the city transportation
engineer. The setbacks are as follows:
(1) Properties fronting on arterials and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of forty (40) feet.
(2) Properties fronting on local access
streets shall have a minimum setback of thirty (30) feet.
C. Side yard. The side yards shall have an
aggregate width of ten (10) percent of the lot width, but the
aggregate width need not be more than thirty (30) feet. There shall
be a minimum of ten (10) feet on each side.
d. Rearyard. No rear yard is required ,
except as may be required by transitional conditions.
4. Yards transitional conditions. Transitional
conditions shall exist when an M2 district adjoins a residential
district containing a density of two (2) dwelling units or more per
acre or a proposed residential area indicated on the city
comprehensive plan. Such transitional conditions shall not exist
where the separation includes an intervening use such as a river,
freeway, railway main line, major topographic differential or other
similar conditions, or where the industrial properties face on a
limited access surface street on which the housing does not face.
When transitional conditions exist as defined in this subsection,
a yard of not less than fifty (50) feet shall be provided.
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Hei ht limitation. The height limitation is
two (2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet. Beyond this height, to a
I height not greater than either four (4) stories or sixty (60) feet,
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there shall be added one (1) additional foot of yard for each one
(1) foot of additional building height. The planning director shall
be authorized to approve one (1) additional story, provided such
height does not detract from the continuity of the industrial area,
and may propose such conditions as may be necessary to reduce any
incompatibility with surrounding uses. Any additional height
increases may be granted by the planning commission.
6. Landscaping. The landscaping requirements of
chapter 15.07 shall apply.
7. Outside storage. Outside storage or operations
yards shall be confined to the area to the rear of a line which is
an extension of the front wall of the principal building, and shall
be reasonably screened from view from any street by appropriate
walls, fencing, earth mounds or landscaping.
8. Loading areas.
a. Loading areas must be located in such a
manner that no loading, unloading or maneuvering of trucks
associated therewith takes place on public rights-of-way.
b. Earth berms and landscaping shall be
provided along street frontages as necessary to screen dock-high
loading areas from public rights-of-way. Berms shall be a minimum
of thirty (30) inches in height. Landscaping located on the berm
shall conform to type III landscaping described in subsection
15.07.050 C. pertaining to visual buffers.
9. Multitenant buildings. Multitenant buildings
shall be permitted.
10. Improvement and maintenance of yards and open
areas. All required yards, parking areas, storage areas,
operations yards and other open uses on the site shall be improved
as required by this title and shall be maintained in a neat and
f orderly manner appropriate for the district at all times. The
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planning director shall be authorized to reasonably pursue the
enforcement of this subsection where a use is in violation, and to
notify the owner or operator of the use in writing of such
noncompliance. The property owner or operator of the use shall be
given a reasonable length of time to correct the condition.
F. Signs. The sign regulations of chapter 15.06 shall
apply.
G. Offstreet Parking.
1. The offstreet parking requirements of chapter
15.05 shall apply.
2. Those areas not required to be landscaped may
be used for offstreet parking.
H. Performance standards. The performance standards as
provided in section 15.08.050 shall apply.
I. Development plan review. Development plan approval
is required as provided in section 15.09.010.
Section 3. Severability. If any one of these sections,
subsections or sentences of this Chapter are held to be
unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portion of this Chapter and the same
shall remain in full force and effect.
effect and be in force thirty (3 0) )
approval and publication as provid
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:e. This ordinance shall take
ays from and after its passage,
d by law.
KELLEHER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
I�C�e-�
BRENDA JACOB C TY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
PASSED the % day of .)�yt ii�C. 993.
APPROVED the day of , 1993.
PUBLISHED thel0 day of , 1993.
I hereby certify that this is a true copy of Ordinance
passed by the City Council of the City of Kent,
Washington, and approved by the Mayor of the City of Kent as hereon
indicated.
C0� SEAL)
BRENDA JA BER CITY CLERK
painbl.ord
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