HomeMy WebLinkAbout2711Ordinance No. 2711-
["Beginning
July 1, 1998"]
(Amending or Repealing Ordinances)
Repealed by Ord. 3409
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ORDINANCE NO.y2 ;�V/
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent,
j Washington, relating to land use ana zoning,
amending Kent City Code 15.04.170 to add
language allowing certain limited commercial
land uses in industrial park districts.
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 15.04.170 of the Kent City Code is
1,76 amended as follows:
15.04.170. INDUSTRIAL PARK DISTRICT OR M1 (OR Ml -C).
'�� Purpose• The purpose of this district is to provide an
?;environment exclusively for ana conducive to the development and
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,protection of a broad range of industrial activities including
modern, large scale administrative facilities, research
institutions and specialized manufacturing organizations, all of a
nonnuisance 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 lana 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 - Nil District. The
following list is illustrative of the types of permitted uses and
is not intended to be exclusive.
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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 semi-precious 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 foundary 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 confec
,tionery products, chocolate, cereal breakfast foods, bakery
products, paste products, fruits and vegetables, beer, beverages
(except fermenting and distilling), prepared food specialities
(such as coffee, dehydrated and instant foods, extracts, spices
" and dressings) and similar products.
C. Dairy products and by-products, such as
milk, cream, cheese, and butter; including the processing and
bottling of fluid milk and cream and wholesale distribution.
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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 condi-
;tional 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 ana
'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':
audio-visual tape; measurement and control devices; sound
equipment and supplies; personal accessories, and products of
similar character.
11. Headquarter offices of industrial operations.
12. Alcoholic beverage processes, such as
distilling and fermenting.
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13. Retail uses as listed below.
a. Merchandise vending machine operators
b. Tire, batteries, and accessory (industrials
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 service
Banking and related services
Security broker, dealers and related
services
Commodity brokers, dealers and related
services
Insurance carriers
Insurance brokers, agents and related
services
Real estate operators, lessors and
management services
Real estate agents, brokers and related
services
Real estate subdividing and developing
services
Housing and investment services
b. Personal services
Linen supply and industrial laundry
services
Diaper services
Rug cleaning and repair services
Photographic services
Beauty and barber services
Fur repair and storage services
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C. Business services
Advertising services
Outdoor advertising services
Consumer and mercantile credit reporting
services; adjustment and collection
services
Direct mail advertising services
Stenographic services and other
duplicating and mailing services
Window cleaning services
Disinfecting and exterminating services
News syndicate services
Employment services
Food lockers (with or without food
preparation facilities)
Business and management consulting service4
Detective and protective services
Equipment rental and leasing services
Automobile and truck rental services
Motion picture distribution services
Travel agencies
d. Repair services
Electrical repair services
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Radio and television repair services
Reupholstery and furniture repair services;
Armature rewinding services
e. Professional services
Medical and dental laboratory services
Legal services
Engineering and architectural services
Educational and scientific research
services
Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping
services
Urban planning services
Counseling services
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f. Contract construction services
Building construction - general contractor
services
Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning
services
Painting, paperhanging and decorating
services
Electrical services
Masonry, stonework, tile setting, and
plastering services
Carpentering and wood flooring
Roofing and sheet metal services
Concrete services
Water well drilling services
g. Educational services
Vocational or trade schools
Business and stenographic schools
Driving schools - truck
h. Miscellaneous services
Business associations and organizations
Labor unions and similar labor
organizations
Health and fitness clubs and facilities
Other service uses which may be deemed by the
Planning Director to be of the same general character and
compatible with those uses listea.
15. Other similar uses which the Planning Director
finds compatible with the Principally Permitted Uses described
herein; consistent with the purpose and intent of the Nil District
and not of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining
properties.
16. 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.
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17. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such
uses and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
B. Principally Permitted Uses in M1 -C District
(C -suffix)
The following commercial uses are permitted in
addition to those listed in subsection A 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.
facilities.
1. Automotive service, maintenance and repair
2. Bakeries and Confectioneries
3. Computer and software stores
4. Convenience and deli marts (maximum gross floor'
area of 3,000 square feet)
5. Convention facilities
6. Exhibition halls, art galleries
7. Hotel, motel
8. Liquor stores
9. Magazines and newspaper stands
10. Printing services
11. Private post offices
12. Shoe repair
13. Stationery and office supply stores
14. Tailoring
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Other similar uses which the Planning Director finds'.
!compatible with the principally permitted uses described herein;
jconsistent 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 Ml 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
a part of the building or buildings comprising the basic operation.
2. Dwelling units, limited to not more than one
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. Other accessory uses and buildings customarily
appurtenant to a Principally Permitted Use.
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7. 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
use or uses of the property:
1. Gift shops
LI 2. Florist shops
3. Specialty clothing stores
`IO E. Conditional Uses. The following are the types of
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conditional uses permitted in the M1 District, subject to approval
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 predominately 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
15.04.170 Al2 which individually or on a cumulative basis exceed
twenty-five (25) percent of the gross floor area of any single or
multibuilding development. Conditional Use Permits shall be
required on an individual tenant or business basis and shall be
granted only when it is demonstrated that the operational charac-
teristics of the use will not adversely impact on or off site
conditions on either an individual or cumulative basis.
4. General Conditional Uses as listed in Section
15.08.030.
5. Carloading and distribution facilities,
rail -truck transfer station.
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6. Manufacturing of paint.
F. Development Standards.
1. Minimum lot One (1) acre.
2. Maximum site coverage. Sixty (60) percent.
3. Yards
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a. Front yard. The front yard shall be
twenty (20) percent of the lot depth. Regardless of lot size the
;yard depth need not be more than sixty-five (65) feet.
i. For properties abutting on West
Valley Highway, the frontage on West Valley Highway shall be
considered the front yard.
b. Side yard on flanking street of corner
lot. The side yards on the flanking street of a corner lot shall
be twenty (20) percent of the lot width but need not be more than
fifty (50) feet in width.
C. Side yards. The side yards shall have an
aggregate width of ten (10) percent of the lot width, but the
aggregate width shall not be more than forty (40) feet. Where
shall be a minimum of fifteen (15) feet on each side.
d. Rear yard. None 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, Ml 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 Kent Comprehensive Plan. Such transitional
conditions shall not exist where the separation includes inter-
vening use such as river, freeway, railroad mainline, 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 herein defined, a yard of not less than fifty (50) feet
'!shall be provided.
5. Setbacks, Green River. Development in the M1
'District abutting the Green River (or Russell or Frager Roads
where such roads follow the river bank) shall set back from the
�• ordinary high water mark of said 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, said Shoreline Management Act.
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6. Height limitations. 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 additional foot of yard for each one foot of
additional building height. The Planning Director shall be
,authorized to approve one additional story, provided such height
;does not detract from the continuity of the industrial area, 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. The landscaping requirements of Chapter 15.07
!shall apply.
8. Enclosure of activities. Predominant
,;activities and operations shall be completely enclosed within
,'buildings or structures, except for customary appurtenances, such
;has loading and unloading areas, or where special conditions exist
'!as 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 o erationa
v ras. Outside
storage or operations yards in the Ml zone shall be permitted only,!
jas 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 (2/3) 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 property as to not detract from the reasonably
accepted appearance of the district.
10. Loading areas. Loading areas must be located
in such a manner that no loading, unloading and/or maneuvering of
trucks associated therewith takes place on public rights of way.
11. Multitenant buildings. Multitenant buildings
shall be permitted.
12. Improvement and maintenance of yards and open
,space. All required yards, parking areas, storage areas, opera-
tions 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 Planning Director shall be authorized to reasonably
pursue the enforcement of these provisions 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 Section 15.05.050(B).
H. Off -Street Parking.
1. The off-street parking requirements of Chapter
15.05 shall apply.
2. Those areas not required to be landscaped may
be used for off-street parking.
I. Performance Standards. The performance standards as'
provided in Section 15.08.050 shall apply.
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J. Develo mp ent Plan Review. Development plan approval
is required, as provided in Section 15.09.010. (0.2524, §1)
Section 2. Any act consistent with the authority and
prior to the effective date of this ordinance is hereby ratified
and confirmed.
Section 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force five (5) days from and after its passage,
;approval and publication as provided by law...-.,
DAN KELLEHER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
(MARIE JEN' CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
NDRA DRISCOLL, CITY ATTORNEY
PASSED the /n day of �"� /� 1987.
APPROVED the day of , 1987.
PUBLISHED the day of , 1987•
I hereby certify that this is a true copy of Or.dinancelll
No. passed by the City Council of the City of Kent,
'iWashington, and approved by the Mayor of the City of Kent as hereof
indicated.
(SEAL)
MARIE SEN�,IT��CL�ERK
04590-160 '
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