HomeMy WebLinkAbout2695Ordinance No. 2695
["Beginning July 1, 1998"]
(Amending or Repealing Ordinances)
Repealed by Ord. 3409
ORDINANCE NO. V �
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent,
Washington, relating to municipal uses and
buildings in all commercial and industrial
zoning districts, except for uses and buildings
subject to Special Use Combining District
regulations; amending Section 15.04.090(A),
15.04.100(A), 15.04.110(A), 15.04.120(A),
15.04.130(A), 15.04.140(A), 15.04.150(A), i
15.04.160(A), 15.04.170'(A), 15.04.180(A), and
15.04.190(A) of the Kent City Code.
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WHEREAS, municipal uses and buildings are generally
similar in size, shape, design and use to those uses and buildings!
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permitted in commercial and industrial zoning districts; and j
I WHEREAS, the Kent Planning Commission held a public
hearing on December 16, 1986 and recommended to the Kent City
(Council that municipal uses and buildings be permitted outright in
all commercial and industrial zoning districts; and
WHEREAS, at a public hearing on January 5, 1987, the City
Council directed the preparation of an ordinance authorizing such;
NOW THEREFORE
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 15.04.090(A) of the Kent City Code is,
amended as follows:
15.04.090. NEIGHBORHOOD CONVENIENCE COMMERCIAL OR NCC.
Purpose: It is the purpose of this district to provide small
nodal areas for retail and personal service activities convenient
to residential areas and to provide ready access to everyday con -
goods for the residents of such neighborhoods.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
1. Any local retail business for the sale of new
merchandise, such as supermarkets, food stores, drugstores,
restaurants (excluding drive-in restaurants), taverns.
2. Personal services such as barber and beauty
shops, launderettes, dry cleaning establishments.
3. Any other retail or personal service use that
is determined by the Planning Director to be of the same general
character as the above permitted local retail businesses or
services and is in accordance with the stated purpose of the
(district.
1 4. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such
uses and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
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.
SPetion 2. Section 15.04.100(A) of the Kent City Code is
lamended as follows:
15.04.100. COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT OR CC.
Purpose: The purpose of this district is to provide areas for
limited commercial activities that serve several residential
neighborhoods. This district shall only apply to such commercial
(districts as designated in the Kent Comprehensive Plan.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
1. Retail establishments, selling primarily new
merchandise, including convenience goods, shopping goods such as
"soft lines" (clothing, shoes) and "hard lines" (hardware,
furniture, paint, appliances).
2. Personal services such as barber and beauty
shops, launderettes, dry cleaning establishments, television and
radio repair, shoe repair.
taverns.
3. Restaurants (excluding drive-in restaurants),
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4. Veterinary clinics when located no closer than
one hundred fifty (150) feet to any residential use, providing the
animals are housed indoors (no outside runs) and the building is
soundproofed. Soundproofing must be designed by competent acous-
�tical engineers.
5. Branches of financial institutions.
6. Car washes.
7. Nurseries and greenhouses.
1 8. Commercial recreational facilities including
theaters, bowling alleys, skating rinks, miniature golf.
9. Office uses.
10. Any other use that is determined by the
Planning Director to be the same general character as the above
permitted uses and is in accordance with the stated purpose of the
district.
11. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such
uses and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
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.
fiantinn 3. Section 15.04.110(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.110. DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL OR DC. Purpose: It is
the purpose of this district to provide a place and create
environmental conditions which will encourage the location of
business, civic and recreational activities which will benefit and
contribute to the vitality of a central "downtown" location. In
the DC -1 area, permitted uses should be primarily pedestrian
oriented, and able to take advantage of off-street parking lots,
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while both auto and pedestrian -oriented uses may prevail in the
DC -2 area.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
1. Retail establishments, including convenience
goods, shopping goods such as "soft lines" (clothing, variety,
shoes) and "hard lines" (hardware, furniture, appliances).
2. Personal services such as barber and beauty
shops, launderettes, dry cleaning, television and radio repair,
shoe repair.
3. Restaurants (excluding drive-in restaurants),
nightclubs, taverns.
offices.
4. Professional, administrative and financial
5. Business and technical schools.
6. Recreational uses such as theaters, bowling
alleys, dance halls (must be enclosed).
7. Hotels and motels.
8. Printing establishments, business services such
as copy services.
9. Mortuaries.
10. Any other use that is determined by the
Planning Director to be of the same general character as the above
permit- ted uses and in accordance with the stated purpose of the
district.
11. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and
otherwise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for
Iexisting dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages,
;carports, storage sheds and fences.
DC -1 zone.
facilities).
12. All of the principally permitted uses in the
13. Automobile wash services.
14. Food lockers (with or without food preparation
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15. Automobile rental services.
16. Sales of tire and auto accessories with on-site
installation.
17. Marine craft sales and accessories.
18. Motor vehicle sales (new and used).
19. Motion picture distribution and services.
20. Upholstery and furniture repair services.
21. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses_
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Section 4. Section 15.04.120(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.120. COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURING -1 OR CM -1. Purpose.
It is the purpose of this district to provide locations for those
(,types of developments which combine some characteristics of both
,retail establishments and industrial operations, heavy commercial
(and wholesale uses.
A. Principally Permitted Uses
1. Heavy commercial uses, which often include outdoor
(storage, such as lumber yards, trailer and truck rentals, new and
!used car lots, building and contractor supply storage yards, body
,repair shops, auto repair, car washes.
2. Contractor shops, where most of the work is done on
,call, and which do not rely on walk-in trade but some storage or
semi -manufacturing work is done on premise such as carpentry,
heating, electrical, glass shops, printing, publishing, litho -
shops, furniture upholstery, dry cleaning, exterminators.
3. Outdoor storage such as trucking, transfer, con-
tractor storage yards.
4. a. Manufacturing uses such as bottling,
,(primarily wholesale) laundry and dyeing, welding shops.
bakeries
b. Specialty manufacturing such as custom sheet
metal.
5. Other retail uses that are deemed to be compatible
by the Planning Director. These uses shall not be convenience or
;soft line commercial uses but might include furniture or appliance;
��stores, tire stores, auto parts, as these are large, nonpedestrianl
oriented retail uses. Such uses shall be in accordance with the
,;stated purpose of this district.
6. Small scale light manufacturing operations as fol-
lows: stamping, brazing, testing, electronic assembly, and kin-
dred operations where the building, structure or total operation
does not encompass more than 10,000 square feet of area. The
10,000 square foot total shall include all indoor and outdoor
storage areas associated with the manufacturing operation. Only
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one 10,000 square foot manufacturing operation shall be permitted
per lot.
7. Mini -warehouse.
8. Complexes which include combinations of uses,
including a mixture of office, light manufacturing, storage and
commercial uses.
9. Restaurants.
10. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and other-
wise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for existing
dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages, carports,
storage sheds and fences. (0.2578, §2)
Section 5. Section 15.04.130(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.130. COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURING -2 OR CM -2. Purpose:
It is the purpose of this district to provide locations for those
types of developments which combine some characteristics of both
retail establishments and small-scale light industrial operations,
heavy commercial and wholesale uses and specialty manufacturing.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
1. Any principally permitted use in the G.C., General
Commercial zone.
2. Outdoor storage such as trucking, transfer, con-
tractor storage yards.
3. a. Manufacturing uses such as bottling, bakeries
(primarily wholesale) laundry and dyeing, welding shops.
b. Specialty manufacturing such as custom sheet
metal.
4. Small scale light manufacturing operations as fol-
lows: stamping, brazing, testing, electronic assembly, and kin-
dred operations where the building, structure or total operation
does not encompass more than 10,000 square feet of area. The
10,000 square foot total shall include all indoor and outdoor
storage areas associated with the manufacturing operation. Only
one 10,000 square foot manufacturing operation shall be permitted
per lot.
5. Mini -warehouses.
6. Complexes which include combinations of uses,
including a mixture of office, light manufacturing, storage and
commercial uses.
7. 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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8. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Section 6. Section 15.04.140(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.140. GENERAL COMMERCIAL OR GC. Purpose: The
purpose and intent of the General Commercial district is:
1. To recognize the existence of commercial areas
developed in strips along certain major thoroughfares.
2. To provide use incentives and development standards
which will encourage the redevelopment and upgrading of such areas.
3. To provide for a range of trade, service, enter-
tainment and recreation land uses which occur adjacent to major
traffic arterials and residential uses.
4. To provide areas for development which are auto-
mobile oriented and designed for convenience, safety and the
reduction of the visual blight of uncontrolled advertising signs,
traffic control devices and utility equipment.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
1. Trade
a. Wholesale
Bakery
b. Retail - general merchandise
Department stores
Dry goods and general merchandise
Electrical supplies
Farm equipment
Hardware
Heating and plumbing equipment
Lumberyards
Mail order houses
Merchandise vending machine operators
Paint, glass and wallpaper
Variety stores
C. Retail - food
Bakeries (with accessory manufacturing)
Candy, nut, and confectionery (with accessory
manufacturing)
Dairy products
Fruits and vegetables
Groceries
Meat, fish, and poultry
d. Retail - automotive, marine craft, aircraft and
accessories
Aircraft and accessories
Marine craft and accessories
Motor vehicles (new and/or used cars and recre-
ation vehicles)
Tires, batteries, and accessories
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e. Retail - apparel and accessories
New and/or used apparel and accessories
f. Retail - furniture, home furnishings and equip-
ment
New and/or used and finished and/or unfinished
furniture, home furnishings and equipment
g. Retail - eating and drinking establishments
Drinking establishments (taverns and cocktail
lounges)
Eating establishments (restaurants) without
drive-in or drive-through facilities.
h. Retail - other
Antiques
Bicycles
Books
Bottled gas
Cameras and photographic supplies
Cigars and cigarettes
Computers and software
Drug and proprietary items
Florists
Fuel and ice dealers
Fuel oil
Gifts, novelties, and souvenirs
Hay, grains, and feeds
Jewelry
Liquor
Newspapers and magazines
Optical goods
Pets and pet supplies
Secondhand merchandise
Sporting goods
Stationery
Video cassette sales and rentals
2. Services
a. Finance, insurance and real estate services
Banking and related services
Commodity brokers, dealers and related services
Housing and investment services
Insurance brokers, agents and related services
Insurance carriers
Real estate agents, brokers and related service
Real estate operators, lessors and management
services
Real estate subdividing and developing services
Security brokers, dealers and related services
Title abstracting and insurance services
b. Personal services
Beauty and barber services
Diaper services
Funeral and crematory services
Laundering and dry cleaning (self-service)
Laundering, dry cleaning, and dyeing services
Linen supply and industrial laundry services
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Photographic services
Pressing, alteration, and garment repair
Rug cleaning and repair services
Shoe repair, shoe shining, and hat cleaning
services
C. Business services
Advertising services
Automobile and truck rental
Blueprinting and photocopying services
Business and management consulting services
Consumer and mercantile credit reporting
services; adjustment and collection services
Detective and protective services
Disinfecting and exterminating services
Employment services
Equipment rental and leasing services
Food lockers (without food preparation
facilities)
Motion picture distribution and services
News syndicate services
Other dwelling and business services
Outdoor advertising services
Photofinishing services
Research, development, and testing services
Stenographic services and other duplicating and
mailing services
Trading stamp services
Window cleaning services
d. Repair services
Armature rewinding services
Automobile repair services
Automobile wash services
Electrical repair services
Fleet vehicle maintenance
Radio and television repair services
Reupholstery and furniture repair services
Small engine repair Truck repair
Watch, clock and jewelry repair services
e. Professional services
Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services
Educational and scientific research services
Engineering and architectural services
Hospital services
Legal services
Medical and dental laboratory services
Medical and dental services
Medical clinic - out-patient services
Sanitarium, convalescent, and rest home service
Urban planning services
f. Contract construction services
Building construction - general contractor
services
Carpentering and wood flooring
Concrete services
Electrical services
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Masonry, stonework, tile setting, and
plastering services
Painting, paperhanging and decorating services
Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning service
Roofing and sheet metal services
Water well drilling services
g. Educational services
Art and music schools
Barber and beauty schools
Business and stenographic schools
Correspondence schools
Dancing schools
Driving schools - auto
Driving schools - truck
Vocational or trade schools
h. Miscellaneous services
Animal grooming parlors
Business associations and organizations
Civic, social, and fraternal associations
Labor unions and similar labor organizations
Veterinary clinics and animal hospital services
when located no closer than one hundred fifty
(150) feet to any residential use, providing
the animals are housed indoors (no outside
runs) and the building is soundproofed. Sound-
proofing must be designed by competent
acoustical engineers.
Welfare and charitable services
3. Residential
a. Lodgings
Hotels
Motels
b. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and
otherwise changed for human occupancy. Acces-
sory uses for existing dwellings may be
constructed. Such uses are garages, carports,
storage sheds and fences.
4. Cultural, entertainment and recreational
a. Cultural activities and nature exhibitions
Art galleries
Historic and monument sites
b. Public assembly
Amphitheaters
Arenas and field houses
Auditoriums
Drive-in movies
Exhibition halls
Legitimate theaters (live)
Motion picture theaters
Stadiums
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C. Amusements and recreation
Amusement parks
Athletic clubs
Bowling
Fairgrounds
Go-cart tracks
Golf driving ranges
Minature golf
Skating (roller or ice)
Tennis
Video arcades
5. Other uses
a. Other retail trade, service, or entertain-
ment/recreational uses that are of the same
general character as those listed; which are
deemed compatible with other permitted uses in
this district and which operate in accordance
with the stated purpose of this district.
b. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such
uses and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Section 7. Section 15.04.150(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.150. PROFESSIONAL AND OFFICE DISTRICT OR 0.
Purpose: It is the purpose of this district to provide for areas
appropriate for professional and administrative offices. It is
intended that such districts shall buffer residential districts
and the development standards are such that office uses should be
compatible with residential districts.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
1. Medical and dental offices.
2. Administrative and professional offices such as
lawyers, engineers, real estate, accountants, financial offices
such as banks, savings and loan institutions, insurance offices.
3. Veterinary clinics when located no closer than one
hundred fifty (150) feet to any residential use, providing the
animals are housed indoors (no outside runs) and the building is
soundproofed. Soundproofing must be designed by competent
acoustical engineers.
4. Schools and studios for art, crafts, photography,
music, dance.
5. Any other use that is determined by the Planning
Director to be of the same general character as the above
permitted uses.
6. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and other-
wise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for existing
dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages, carports,
storage sheds and fences.
Section 8. Section 15.04.160(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.160. INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURAL OR MA. Purpose: The
City has, through its RA and MA zones, the key to assuring
efficient and attractive growth. It is essential that the City
avoid excessive zoning far in advance of demand.
Rezoning of RA and MA lands to more intensive use shall be
predicated upon the documentation of the need for additional
residential, commercial, or industrial land in Kent. This
documentation shall consist of a fiscal impact analysis showing
the other lands already zoned and accessible to municipal services
are not sufficient and/or suitable to accommodate demand for the
proposed uses and that the market demand for the proposed develop-
ment is sufficient to generate the revenues necessary to provide
municipal services (including but not limited to police, fire,
streets, water, drainage and sewer) required by the project.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
1. Agricultural uses, including any customary agricul-
tural building and structure, and such uses as livestock ranges,
animal husbandry, field crops, tree crops, nurseries, greenhouses,
and other agricultural occupations.
2. Storage, warehousing, processing and conversion of
agricultural, dairy and horticultural products, but not including
slaughtering or meat packing.
3. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and other-
wise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for existing
dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages, carports,
storage sheds and fences.
Section 9. Section 15.04.170(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.170. INDUSTRIAL PARK DISTRICT OR M1. 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 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.
A. Principally Permitted Uses. 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
lof 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 previ-
ously 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-
';tionary 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
j and dressings) and similar products.
C. Dairy products and by-products, such as milk,
I1cream, 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 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 compo-
nents, 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.
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10. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and packaging
of precision components and products; including precision machine
shops for products such as radio and television equipment; busi-
ness 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 and service uses as listed below. Such uses
shall be limited to twenty-five (25) percent of the gross floor
area of any single or multibuilding development. Retail and
service uses which exceed the twenty-five (25) percent limit on an
individual or cumulative basis shall be subject to review indivi-
dually through the Conditional Use Permit process. (See
Subsection 15.04.170 D3.)
Retail Trade Uses
Merchandise vending machine operators
Tire, batteries, and accessory (industrial vehicles
and equipment)
Eating places (except drive-ins or those with
drive-in or drive-through facilities)
Service Uses
a. Finance insurance and real estate services
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 service;
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
Direct mail advertising services
Stenographic services and other duplicating and
mailing services
Window cleaning services
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Disinfecting and exterminating services
News syndicate services
Employment services
Food lockers (with or without food preparation
facilities)
Business and management consulting services
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
f. Contract construction services
Building construction - general contractor
services
Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning service:
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
Other retail trade and service uses which may be
deemed by the Planning Director to be of the same general
character and compatible with those uses listed.
14. 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.
15. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and
otherwise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for
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existing dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages,
carports, storage sheds and fences.
16. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Section 10. Section 15.04.180(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.180. LIMITED INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT OR M2. Purpose:
The purpose of this 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.
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, pumic, rubber, shell,
textiles, tobacco, wire, wood, wool and yarn.
2. Manufacturing, processing, treating, assembling,
and packaging of articles, products, or merchandise from previ-
ously 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-
tionary 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 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 compo-
nents, 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 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 and service uses as listed below. Such uses
shall be limited to twenty-five (25) percent of the gross floor
area of any single or multibuilding development. Retail and
service uses which exceed the twenty-five (25) percent limit on an
individual or cumulative basis shall be subject to review indivi-
dually through the Conditional Use Permit process. (See
Subsection 15.04.180 D3.)
Retail Trade Uses
Merchandise vending machine operators
Tire, batteries, and accessory (industrial sales)
Eating places (except drive-ins or those with
drive-through facilities)
Service Uses
a. Finance, insurance and real estate services
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 service;
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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 (general)
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 services
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
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 association and organizations
Labor unions and similar labor organizations
Other retail trade and service uses which may be
(deemed by the Planning Director to be of the same general
character and compatible with those uses listed.
14. Other similar uses which the Planning Director
,finds compatible with the Principally Permitted Uses described
herein; consistent with the purpose and intent of the M2 District
and not of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining
properties.
15. 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.
16. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses_
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Section 11. Section 15.04.190(A) of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.04.190. GENERAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT OR M3. Purpose:
The purpose of this district is to provide areas suitable for the
broadest range of industrial activities, and to specify those
industrial activities having unusual or potentially deleterious
operational characteristics, where special attention must be paid
to location and site development. Light industrial uses which
require restrictive standards on the part of adjoining uses are
discouraged from locating in this district.
A. Principally Permitted Uses. The description of
Principally Permitted Uses is illustrative of the types of uses
which shall be permitted in the M3 District and is not intended to
be exclusive.
1. Administrative or executive offices which are part
of a predominant industrial operation.
2. Scientific research, testing, and experimental
development laboratories conducted in conjunction with a
Principally Permitted Use.
3. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and packaging
of articles, products, or merchandise from previously prepared
natural or synthetic materials, including but not limited to
asbestos, bristle, bone, canvas, cellophane and similar
synthetics, chalk, clay, leather, paints, paper, paraffin,
plastics and resin, precious and semi-precious stones, putty,
pumice, rubber, shell, textiles, tobacco, wire, wood, wool, and
yarn.
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4. Manufacturing, processing, treating, assembling andi
packaging of articles, products, or merchandise from previously
prepared ferrous, nonferrous or alloyed metals, excluding predomi-,
nantly drop forge and drop hammer operations.
5. Printing, publishing and allied industries,
including such processes as lithography, etching, engraving,
binding, blueprinting, photocopying, film processing and similar
operations or activities.
6. Manufacturing, processing, blending and packaging
:of products such as the following:
a. Drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and
icosmetics.
b. Soaps, detergents, and other basic cleaning ands
,,cleansing preparations.
C. Plastics and synthetic resins.
d. Synthetic and natural fiber and cloth.
e. Prepared and basic food, beverage and kindred
products, including ice manufacture and storage and cold storage
;plants, but excluding meat and seafood products.
f. Plywood, composition wallboard and similar
structural wood products.
g. Nonmetallic mineral products such as abrasives,'
asbestos, chalk, pumice and putty.
h. Heat resisting or structural clay or cement
products (brick, tile, pipe) or porcelain products (bath fixtures,'
tanks).
i. Machinery and heavy machine tool equipment for
general industry and mining, agriculture, construction, or service
industries.
j. Transportation machinery and equipment, such as!
motor vehicles, aircraft, trucks and trailers, mobile homes,
boats, missiles, railroad rolling stock, and other transporta-
tion -oriented apparatus, but excluding explosive fuels and
propellants.
k. Business and domestic machinery, equipment and
supplies.
7. Basic wood processing, including such operations as
sawmills, planing mills, and the primary preserving, veneering or
,laminating of wood.
8. Machine shops and specialty job shops.
9. Warehousing and distribution facilities and the
,storage of goods and products, except for those goods or products
specifically described as permitted to be stored as Conditional
Uses.
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10. Contractors' service yards and shops and construc-
tion suppliers.
11. Truck storage yards.
12. Enameling, galvanizing, painting, electroplating.
13. Public utility service yards and shops and major
public utility facilities, including steam electric generating
stations, electric transmission substations and attendant micro-
wave facilities incorporated as part of such uses.
14. Transportation and transit terminals, including
repair and storage facilities and rail -truck stations, except
classification yards in the category of "hump yards".
15. Crop and tree farming.
16. The reasonable expansion or evolution of a legally
established use whose expanded or altered sphere of activity may
include uses normally considered M1 and M2 types of operations,
whose standards of operation shall not be affected by the reason-
able level of performance expected in the M3 district.
17. Truck repair and service facilities.
18. Other similar uses which the Planning Director
finds compatible with the Principally Permitted Uses described
herein, and consistent with the purpose and intent of the M3
District.
19. Manufacturing of paint.
20. 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.
21. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200.
Section 12. 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.
C 1 _
DAN ELLEHER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
MARIE J
N, CITY(CLERK
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
iAN�DRA DRISCOLL, CITY ATTORNEY
PASSED the Qom® day of
APPROVED the( day of
PUBLISHED the day of
, 1987.
, 1987.
, 1987.
I hereby certify that this is a true copy of Ordinance
No. �� , passed by the City Council of the City of Kent,
Washington, and approved by the Mayor of the City of Kent as hereor
lindicated.
(SEAL)
MARI NSEN, CI Y CLERK
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