HomeMy WebLinkAbout2740ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent,
Washington, relating to land use and planning;
amending development standards of the M1,
Industrial Park District; adding Section
15.02.111 to the Kent City Code and amending
Kent City Code 15.04.170.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
15.02.111 DOCK HIGH LOADING AREAS. Truck
maneuvering areas and loading/unloading areas associated with
loading doors that are located above the finish grade.
Section 2. Section 15.04.170 of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.170. INDUSTRIAL PARK DISTRICT OR M1 (OR M1 -C).
Purpose: The purpose of this 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
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 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
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 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 confec-
tionery 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.
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 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
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.
13. Retail uses as listed below.
a. Merchandise vending machine operators
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b. Tire, batteries, and accessory (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 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
C. Business services
Advertising services
Outdoor advertising services
Consumer and mercantile credit reporting
services; adjustment and collection
services
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Direct mail advertising services
Stenographic services and other j
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 service
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
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
f. Contract construction services
Building construction - general contractor
services
Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning
services
Painting, paperhanging and decorating
services
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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 listed.
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 M1 District
and not of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining
properties.
16. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired anc
otherwise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for
existing dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages,
carports, storage sheds and fences.
17. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such
uses and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
(C -suffix
B. Principally Permitted Uses in M1 -C District
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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.
1. Automotive service, maintenance and repair
facilities.
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
Other similar uses which the Planning Director finds
compatible with the principally permitted uses described herein;
consistent with the purpose and intent of the M1 District and not
of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining properties.
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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
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uses permitted in the Ml District.
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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. t
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.
7. The following are accessory uses which are
allowed only in the Ml -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
2. Florist shops
3. Specialty clothing stores
E. Conditional Uses. The following are the types of
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 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.
((-4,)) 3. General Conditional Uses as listed in Section
15.08.030.
4. Carloading and distribution facilities,
rail -truck transfer station.
5. Manufacturing of paint.
F. Development Standards.
1.
Minimum
lot
One (1) acre.
2.
Maximum
site
coverage. Sixty (60) percent.
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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 Kent
Transportation Engineer. The setbacks are as follows:
i. Properties fronting on arterial and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of 40 feet.
ii. Properties fronting on local access
streets shall have a minimum setback of 30 feet.
b. ( (Side yard erg €1ankinq street -ref corner
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41 The side Yards an the flanking st-r-0,21- of a, norn1
he +-fAIeaAty ( 20 ) perc-e-n-t- Gf--t4— w44th but need net i3e merre than
fifty (so) feet ;n w dtr ))b. Side Yard. The minimum side yard
on flanking street of corner lot shall be related to the
classification of the adjacent street. This classification shall
be determined by the Kent Transportation Engineer. The setbacks
are as follows:
i. Properties fronting on arterial and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of 40 feet.
ii. Properties fronting on local access
streets shall have a minimum setback of 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. None required except as may bE
required by other setback provisions of this section.
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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
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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
I' topographic differential or other similar conditions; or where the
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i' 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
jl 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.
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. Where building walls face adjacent streets and are
unfenestrated for more than 40 feet at any point along the facade,
additional landscaping shall be required to reduce visual
imbacts. In such circumstances, Tvpe II landscaping as defined ir.
Section 15.07.050, shall be required, provided that evergreen
trees shall be at least 10 feet in height and deciduous trees
shall be a minimum of 2 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 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 operation yards. Outside
storage or operations yards in the M1 zone shall be permitted onl3
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 (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.
a. 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.
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 36 inches and a maximum of 42 inches in height. Landscaping
located on the berm shall conform to Type II landscaping described
in Section 15.07.050(c).
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
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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 a:
provided in Section 15.08.050 shall apply.
J. Development Plan Review. Development plan approval
is required, as provided in Section 15.09.010. (0.2524, S1)
Section 3. Any act consistent with the authority and
prior to the effective date of this ordinance is hereby ratified
and confirmed.
Section 4. 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.
ATTEST:
MARIE JE , CITY CLERK
4730-160
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.LV 1\LLLLJ LL"XV F L'1L].
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
PASSED the ./,5' day of (�L , 1987.
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APPROVED the day of (. , 1987.
PUBLISHED the O9/ day of , 1987.
I hereby certify that this is a true copy of Ordinanc
passed by the City Council of the City of Kent,
Washington, and approved by the Mayor of the City of Kent as here
indicated.
4730-160
(SEAL)
MARIE JE , CITY CLERK
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