HomeMy WebLinkAbout2524Ordinance No. 2524
["Beginning July 1, 1998"1
(Amending or Repealing Ordinances)
Secs. 15.04.170 & 15.04.180 Repealed by Ord. 3409
Sec. 15.08.020 Amended by Ord. 3409
Sec. 15.08.020 Amended by Ord. 3439
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ORDINANCE NO.5=
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent,
Washington, relating to zoning and land use,
implementing Ordinance 2396, amending Sections
15.04.170 and 15.04.180 to clarify the status of
certain uses, and amending Section 15.08.020 to
permit convenience grocery sales in conjunction
with Gasoline Service Stations as a Special
Permit Use.
WHEREAS, the Kent City Council passed Ordinance 2396 on
April 4, 1983 amending the Kent City Code relating to alcohol
processing including distilling and fermenting; and
WHEREAS, due to codification changes in the Kent Zoning
Code the amendment approved by Ordinance 2396 was not included in
the Code; and
WHEREAS, the passage of this Ordinance will implement
Ordinance 2396 with the proper codification of the amendment;
, THEREFORE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 15.04.170 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 develop-
ment and protection of a broad range of industrial activities
including modern, large scale administrative facilities,
research institutions and specialized manufacturing organiza-
tions, 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 of articles, products or merchandise from previ-
ously 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 merchan-
dise 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
confectionary 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 distribu-
tion.
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 experi-
mental development laboratories.
9. Establishments engaged in electronic, auto-
motive, aerospace, missile, airframe, or related manufac-
turing and assembly activities, including precision machine
shops producing parts, accessories, assemblies, systems,
engines, major components, and whole electronic or electrical
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devices, automobiles, aircraft, missiles, aerospace, or
underwater vehicles, or similar products, including research
land 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 tele-
vision equipment; business machine equipment; home appli-
ances; 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 opera-
tions.
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 individually 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 services
Real estate subdividing and developing
services
Housing and investment services
b. Personal services
Linen supply and industrial laundry
services
Diaper services
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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
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Stenographic services and other dupli-
cating and mailing services
Window cleaning services
Disinfecting and exterminating services
News syndicate services
Employment services
Food lockers (with or without food
preparation facilities)
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Business and management consulting
services
Detective and protective services
Equipment rental and leasing services
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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 condi-
tioning 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 organi-
zations
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.
((-149:)) 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 Ml District and not of a type to adversely affect the use
of adjoining properties.
((--1-)) 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.
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.
C. 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 inci-
dental to a Principally Permitted Use, provided such opera-
tions 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.
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3. Employee recreation facilities and play
areas.
4. Restaurant, cafe or cafeteria operated in
conjunction with a Principally Permitted Use for the conveni-
ence 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.
D. 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 opera-
tions 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 cumula-
tive 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 demon-
strated that the operational characteristics 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.
6. Manufacturing of paint.
E. Development Standards
1. Minimum lot One (1) acre.
2. Maximum site coverage. Sixty (60) percent.
3. Yards
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.
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.
4. Yards, transitional conditions. Transi-
tional 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 Kent Comprehensive Plan.
Such transitional conditions shall not exist where the
separation includes intervening 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
Ml 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
Muses. 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 as loading and unloading areas, or where special condi-
tions exist as a result of a conditional use public hearing.
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The Planning Director shall be authorized to determine the
reasonable application of this provision in cases of opera-
tional hardship or other showing of uncommon circumstances.
9. Outside storage or operations yard. Out-
side 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, 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 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 noncompli-
ance. The property owner or operator of the use shall be
given a reasonable length of time to correct the condition.
apply.
F. Signs
The sign regulations of Chapter 15.06 shall
G. 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.
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 2. Section 15.04.180 of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
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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 restric-
tive. However, development standards are aimed at main-
taining 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 previ-
ously 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 merchan-
dise 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
confectionary 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 distribu-
tion.
5. Warehousing and distribution facilities and
the storage of goods or products including rail -truck
transfer facilities.
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6. Crop and tree farming.
7. Administrative or executive offices which
are part of a predominant industrial operation.
8. Scientific research, testing, and experi-
mental development laboratories.
9. Establishments engaged in electronic, auto-
motive, aerospace, missile, airframe, or related manufac-
turing 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 tele-
vision equipment, business machine equipment, home appli-
ances; 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 opera-
tions.
12. Alcoholic beverage processes, such as
distilling and fermenting.
((4.2,)) 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 individually 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
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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 (general)
Outdoor advertising services
Consumer and mercantile credit
reporting services; adjustment and
collection services
Direct mail advertising services
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Stenographic services and other dupli-
cating and mailing services
Window cleaning services
Disinfecting and exterminating services
News syndicate services
Employment services
Food lockers (with or without food
preparation facilities)
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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
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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 condi-
tioning 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 organi-
zations
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.
((-33,-)) 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.
((3:4-.-)) 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.
B. Special Permit Use
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.
C. Accessory Uses
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The following are the accessory uses permitted
in the M2 District:
1. Repair operations for products 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 operations.
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 conveni-
ence 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.
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 opera-
tions 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 Al2 which individually or on a cumula-
tive 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 demon-
strated that the operational characteristics 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.
Districts.
5. Principally Permitted Uses in the M3
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6. Manufacturing of paint.
E. Development Standards
1. Minimum lot. 20,000 square feet.
2. Maximum site coverage. Sixty-five (65)
percent.
3. Yards
a. Front yard. The front yard shall be
fifteen (15) percent of the lot depth. Regardless of lot
size, the yard depth need not be more than forty-five (45)
feet.
b. Side yard on flanking street of corner
lot. The side yard on the flanking street of a corner lot
shall be fifteen (15) percent of lot width but need not be
more than thirty-five (35) feet in width.
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. Rear yard. None except as may be
required by transitional conditions.
4. Yards, transitional conditions. Transi-
tional 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 indi-
cated on the Kent Comprehensive Plan. Such transitional
conditions shall not exist where the separation includes
intervening use such as river, freeway, railway mainline,
major topographic differential or other similar conditions;
or 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. Height limitation. 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 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. The landscaping requirements of Chapter
15.07 shall apply.
7. Outside storage. Outside storage or opera-
tion yards shall be confined to the area to the rear of a
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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. 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.
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 these regulations and 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 noncompli-
ance. The property owner or operator of the use shall be
given a reasonable length of time to correct the condition.
apply.
F. Signs
The sign regulations of Chapter 15.06 shall
G. 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.
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. Section 15.04.190 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 activi-
ties, and to specify those industrial activities having
unusual or potentially deleterious operational character-
istics, where special attention must be paid to location and
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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 experi-
mental development laboratories conducted in conjunction with
a Principally Permitted Use.
3. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and
packaging of articles, products, or merchandise from previ-
ously 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.
4. Manufacturing, processing, treating,
assembling and packaging of articles, products, or merchan-
dise from previously prepared ferrous, nonferrous or alloyed
metals, excluding predominantly 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 cosmetics.
b. Soaps, detergents, and other basic
cleaning and 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.
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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 equip-
ment, such as motor vehicles, aircraft, trucks and trailers,
mobile homes, boats, missiles, railroad rolling stock, and
other transportation -oriented apparatus, but excluding explo-
sive 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.
((-9-1)) 8. Machine shops and specialty job shops.
H-141)) 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.
((-1-1z)) 10. Contractors' service yards and shops and
construction suppliers.
((4L.)) 11. Truck storage yards.
((+4-0) 12. Enameling, galvanizing, painting, electro-
plating.
((44*)) 13. Public utility service yards and shops and
major public utility facilities, including steam electric
generating stations, electric transmission substations and
attendant microwave 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 Ml and M2 types
of operations, whose standards of operation shall not be
affected by the reasonable level of performance expected in
the M3 district.
((4-&.)) 17. Truck repair and service facilities.
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((.)) 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.
B. Accessory Uses
1. Repair operations for products 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 operations.
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 conveni-
ence of persons employed on the premises.
5. Other accessory uses and buildings
customarily appurtenant to a Principally Permitted Use.
C. Conditional Uses
The following are the types of conditional uses
permitted in the M3 District, subject to approval by the
Hearing Examiner. The list of conditional uses is illustra-
tive of the types of uses which shall be permitted and not
intended to be exclusive.
1. Manufacture of such types of basic
materials as follows:
a. Gum and wood chemicals and
fertilizers, and basic industrial organic and inorganic
chemicals or products such as alkalies and chlorine,
industrial, and liquid petroleum, gases, cellophane, coal tar
products, dyes and dye products, impregnated products,
tanning compounds, and glue and gelatin.
b. Hydraulic cement, concrete, gypsum,
lime, carbon, carbon black, graphite, coke, glass, and
similar products.
2. Manufacture of products such as the
following:
a. Ammunition, explosives, fireworks,
matches, photographic film, missile propellants, and similar
combustibles.
b. Rubber from natural, synthetic, or
reclaimed materials.
C. Paving and roofing materials or other
products from petroleum derivatives.
3. Refining of materials such as petroleum and
petroleum products, metals and metal ores, sugar, and fats
and oils.
4. Distilling of materials such as bone, coal,
coal tar, coke, wood, and other similar distillates.
5. Heavy metal processes, such as ore reduc-
tion or smelting, including blast furnaces, and including
drop forging, drop hammering, boiler plate works, and similar
heavy metal operations.
a. Asphalt batching plants.
b. Concrete mixing and batching plants,
including ready -mix concrete facilities.
dryers.
C. Rock crushing plants and aggregate
d. Sandblasting plants.
6. Animal and food processing, including the
following and similar operations:
a. Tanning, dressing, and finishing of
hides, skins, and furs.
b. Meat and seafood products packaging,
freezing, curing, canning and processing.
C. Nitrating of cotton and other
materials.
d. Rendering of animal grease or tallow,
fish oil, and similar materials.
e. Slaughtering, stockyard, feed lot,
dairy, and similar operations.
f. Pickling and brine curing processes.
g. Wholesale produce markets.
7. Salvage, wrecking, and disposal activities,
including the following and similar operations:
a. Automobile and building wrecking and
salvage.
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b. Salvage of industrial waste materials,
such as metal, paper, glass, rag, and similar materials.
C. Sewage disposal and treatment plants.
d. Dump and sump operations for such uses
as rubbish, garbage, trash, an other liquid and solid wastes.
8. Storage of the following kinds of goods:
a. Bulk storage of oil, gas, petroleum,
butane, propane, liquid petroleum gas, and similar products,
and bulk stations and plants.
b. Used building materials, mover's
equipment, relocated buildings, impounded vehicles, and
similar materials.
C. Explosives or fireworks, except where
incidental to a Principally Permitted Use.
percent.
d. Fertilizer or manure.
9. General Uses as listed in Section 15.08.030.
D. Development Standards
1. Minimum lot. 15,000 square feet.
2. Maximum site coverage. Seventy-five (75)
3. Yards
a. Front yard. The front yard shall be
ten (10) percent of the lot depth. Regardless of lot size,
the yard depth need not be more than thirty-five (35) feet.
b. Side yard on the flanking street of a
corner lot. The side yard on the flanking street of a corner
lot shall be at least ten (10) percent of the lot width
unless the ten (10) percent figure would result in a side
yard of greater than twenty (20) feet in which case the side
yard need not be more than twenty (20) 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 twenty-five (25)
feet. There shall be a minimum of ten (10) feet on each side.
d. Rear yard. None required except as
may be required by transitional conditions.
4. Yards, transitional conditions. Transi-
tional conditions shall exist when a M3 District adjoins a
residential district containing a density of two (2) dwelling
units or more per acre or a proposed residential area indi-
cated on the Kent Comprehensive Plan. Such transitional
conditions shall not exist where the separation includes an
intervening use such as river, railroad mainline, major
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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. Height limitation. 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 two (2)
feet 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 impose such conditions as may be necessary to reduce
any incompatability with surrounding uses. Any additional
height increases may be granted by the Planning Commission.
6. The landscaping requirements of Chapter
15.07 shall apply.
7. Outside storage. Outside storage or opera-
tions area shall be fenced for security and public safety at
the property line.
8. Multitenant buildings. Multitenant
buildings shall be permitted.
9. 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.
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 these regulations and 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 noncompli-
ance. The property owner or operator of the use shall be
given a reasonable length of time to correct the conditions.
apply.
E. Signs
The sign regulations of Chapter 15.06 shall
F. Off -Street Parking
1. The off-street parking requirements of
Chapter 15.05 shall apply.
2. Off-street parking may be located in
required yards, except where landscaping is required.
G. Performance Standards
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The performance standards as provided in Section
15.08.050 shall apply.
H. Development Plan Review
Development plan approval is required as
provided in Section 15.09.010.
Section 4. Section 15.08.020 of the Kent City Code is
amended as follows:
15.08.020 SPECIAL PERMIT USES
The following uses are permitted in the several
districts in which they are listed as special permit uses
provided that they conform to the development standards
listed below in addition to conforming to the development
standards of the zoning district in which the use is located.
A. Churches
Excluding drive-in churches which are
conditional uses.
1. Minimum lot. One (1) acre.
2. Front yard. There shall be a front yard of
at least twenty (20) feet depth.
3. Side yard. Each side yard shall be a
minimum of fifteen (15) feet width.
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4. Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of
at least twenty (20) feet depth.
5. Ingress and Egress. A separate entrance
and exit shall be provided. Loading and unloading areas
shall be provided and shall be located off public streets.
6. Landscaping. All yard areas must be
landscaped.
7. Day care centers in churches must also
provide the required play area, as provided in Subsection
15.08.020 B.
8. Off-street parking and sign regulation
shall be observed.
B. Nurseries and Day Care Centers
1. Minimum lot. Ten thousand (10,000) square
feet.
2. Front yard. There shall be a front yard of
at least twenty (20) feet minimum depth.
3. Side yard. Each side yard shall be a
minimum of eight (8) feet width.
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4. Rear yard. The rear yard shall be at least
twenty (20) feet minimum depth.
5. Play area. A fenced and screened play lot
on or adjoining the premise shall be provided with a minimum
area of four hundred (400) square feet plus an additional
forty (40) square feet for each child in excess of ten (10).
6. Ingress and egress. A separate entrance
and exit shall be provided. Loading and unloading areas
shall be provided and shall be located off the public street.
7. Landscaping. Landscaping shall be provided
to a minimum width of eight (8) feet along property line
abutting residential uses. Landscaping shall be in a manner
assigned by the Planning Department at the time of the
Development Plan Review.
8. Off-street parking and sign regulations
shall be observed.
C. Gasoline Service Stations (with or without
retail convenience grocery sales)
The provision of gasoline pumps shall not be
considered incidental or secondary to a ((rari.r "j•))
permitted use, and must conform to the requirements of this
section.
1. Minimum lot area. Fifteen thousand
(15,000) square feet.
2. Lot frontage. There shall be at least one
hundred twenty (120) feet frontage on a public street.
3. Pump setbacks. The pump island shall be
set back fifteen (15) feet from the public right of way and
any property lines.
4. Lubrication. Lubrication shall be done
within an enclosed building.
5. Buffer of adjacent property. A solid or
woven fence, free of advertising, shall be maintained along
property lines which flank residential districts.
6. Lighting. Lighting devices shall be shaded
so as not to glare into residential districts.
7. Hours. Gasoline service stations abutting
residential districts shall limit their hours of operation
from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Signs shall not be lit when the
service station is closed.
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(()) 8. Ingress and egress. Driveway widths shall
not be greater than thirty (30) feet nor closer together than
twenty-five (25) feet, no closer than five (5) feet to a
property line; there shall be not more than two (2) driveways
per public right of way.
9. Off-street parking shall be provided in
compliance with Chapter 15.05.
10. The sign regulations of Chapter 15.06 shall
apply.
11. Convenience grocery sales facilities shall
be limited to a maximum size of 3,000 square feet gross floor
area in zones which do not allow retail grocery sales as a
principally permitted use.
12. Development standards and criteria of the
underlying zoning_ district shall apply unless otherwise noted
in this section.
D. Drive -In Restaurants
1. Minimum lot area. Fifteen thousand
(15,000) square feet.
2. Front yard. There shall be a front yard of
at least twenty (20) feet depth.
3. Side yard. Each side yard shall be at
least twenty (20) feet width.
4. Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of
at least twenty (20) feet depth.
5. Ingress and egress. Driveway widths shall
not be greater than thirty (30) feet nor closer together than
twenty-five (25) feet, nor closer than five (5) feet to a
property line; there shall be not more than two (2) driveways
per public right of way.
6. Landscaping. Ten (10) foot strip along
street rights of way except at points of ingress and egress
to the property. Five (5) foot strip of landscaping along
side lot lines shall be provided. Landscaping shall be in a
manner assigned by the Planning Department at the time of
Development Plan Review.
Section 5. 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.
I ABEL HOGAN, MAYOR
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ATTEST:
MARIE JENSEN, CITY CL ERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
P.•STE HEN DiJULO, CITY ATTORNEY
PASSED the '7 day of ` 2, 198r
APPROVED the day of,...._,,,, 198
PUBLISHED the L day of .1 _, 198,x.
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 hereo
indicated.
01710-70
( SEAL )
MARIE JE N, CITY CLERK
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