HomeMy WebLinkAbout2786Ordinance No. 2786
(Amending or Repealing Ordinances)
CFN=131 - Zoning Code
Passed 6/21/1988
Incorporating Recommendations of the East Valley Study into Zoning Code
Repealed by Ord. 3409 (Secs. 15.04.180;15.04.190;15.04.200)
Amended
by Ord.
3409
(Sec.
15.07.040);
Amended
by Ord.
3612
(Sec.
15.07.010);
Amended
by Ord.
3830
(Sec.
15.07.040)
Amended
by Ord.
4043
(Sec.
15.07.040)
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ORDINANCE NC. -�
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent,
Washington, amending the Kent City Zoning Code
to establish a landscape corridor along the I
East Valley Highway, chaning the front yard set
back in the M2 Zone, instituting screening
requirements for dock high loading areas in M2
and M3 Zones, establishing transition area
requirements in the East Valley and
clarification of solid waste use regulations,
adding Sections 15.02.499, 15.04.180(D)(8),
amending 15.04.180(F)(3)(a)&(b), adding
15.04.180(E)(8), 15.04.190(A)(22),
15.04.190(D)(9), 15.04.200(A)(8)(b),
15.07.040(P), and amending Section 15.08.210.
THF CITY CCUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Kent City Zone Code Chapter 15.02 is
amended as follows:
CHAPTER 15.02
DEFINITIONS
For purposes of this code, certain terms or words used
herein shall be interpreted as follows: I
The word person includes a firm, association, I
organization, partnership, a.rtnership, trust, company, or corporation as wells
I as an individual.
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The present tense includes the future tense, the singula
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number includes the plural, and the plural number includes the
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The word shall is mandatory, the word may is permissive.i
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i+ The word used or occupied includes the words intended,
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j designed, or arranged to be used or occupied.
`i The word lot includes the words plot and parcel. i
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A use or
15.02.005. ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE.
structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily j
incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.
I 15.02.006. ADULT BOOKSTORE. A commercial establishment]
which has a minimum of 20 percent of its stock in trade, books,
magazines, or other periodicals distinguished or characterized by
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an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to
"specified sexual activities" or it anatomical areas" as
defined herein. Such an establishment is customarily not open to
the public generally but only to one or more classes of the
public, excluding minors by virtue of age. It shall be a
rebuttable presumption that 20 percent of a business' stock in
trade is considered substantial. (0.2687, §2)
15.02.007. ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATRE. An Adult
Motion Picture Theatre is an enclosed building used for presentini
motion picture films, video cassettes, cable television, or any
other such visual media, distinguished or characterized by an.
emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to
"specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas" as
hereafter defined for observation by patrons therein. This term
includes outdoor drive-in theatres or structures which present
similar films, movies, or other visual media depicting,
describing, or relating to "specified sexual activities" or
"specified anatomical areas" as hereafter defined for observation
by patrons. (0.2687, §2)
15.02.008. ADULT USES. For the terms of this code,
adult uses shall include adult motion picture theatres adult
drive-in theatres, and adult bookstores as defined herein.
(0.2687, §2)
15.02.010. AGRICULTURE. The use of land for
agricultural purposes, including farming, dairying, pasturage,
horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, apiaries, and animal and
poultry husbandry, and the necessary accessory uses for storing
produce; provided, however, that the operation of any such
accessory use shall be incidental to that of normal agricultural
activities and provided further that the above uses shall not
include the commercial feeding of garbage or refuse to swine or
other animals.
15.02.015. ALLEY OR LANE. A public or private way not
more than thirty (30) feet wide affording only secondary means of
access to abutting property.
15.02.020. APARTMENT. A dwelling unit in a multifamily
building.
15.02.025. APARTMENT HOUSE (MULTIFAMILY DWELLING). AnyI building, or portion thereof, which e
is designed, built, rented,
leased, let, or hired out to be occupied, or which is occupied as
the home or residence of three or more families living independ-
ently of each other and doing their own cooking in the said build-�
ing, and shall include flats and apartments. !
15.02.030. AUTOMOBILE REPAIR. Includes fixing,
incidental body or fender work, painting upholstering, engine
tune-up, adjusting lights, brakes, supply and installing
replacement parts to passenger vehicles and trucks.
15.02.035. AUTCMOBILE SERVICE STATION OR GASOLINE
FILLING STATION. A building or lot having pumps and storage tanks
where fuels, oils, or accessories for motor vehicles are
i dispensed, sold or offered for sale at retail only; repair service
is incidental and no storage or parking space is offered for rent.
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15.02.040. AUTOMOBILE WRECKING OR MOTOR VEHICLE
WRECKING. The dismantling or disassembling of motor vehicles or
the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled,
obsolete or wrecked motor vehicles or their parts.
15.02.045. BASEMENT. That portion of a building betwee
floor and ceiling, which is partly below and partly above arade,
but so located that the vertical distance from grade to the floor
below is less than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling.
15.02.050. BOARD CF ADJUSTMENT. The Kent Board of
Adjustment created in accordance with RCW 35A.
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15.02.055. BOARDING OR LODGING HOME. A dwelling
thereof, other than a motel or hotel, where lodging with or
out meals, is provided, for compensation for not more than
(3) persons.
15.02.060. BUILDING.
ported by columns or walls used
shelter or enclosure of persons,
Any structure having a roof sup -
or intended to be used for the
animals or property of any kind.
15.02.065. BUILDING HEIGHT. The vertical
the "grade" to the highest point of the coping of a
to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average
highest gable of a pitch or hip roof.
distance from
flat roof or I
height of the
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15.02.070. CANOPY. A roof -like projection.
15.02.075. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The plans, maps, reports
which have been adopted by the City Council in accordance with RC
35.63 or RCW 35A.
15.02.080. COMBINING DISTRICT. District regulations I
superimposed on an underlying zoning district which impose addi-
tional regulations for specific uses, and which are valid for a
stipulated time period. Uses permitted by the underlying zone ma�
also be developed. I'
15.02.085. COMMON OPEN SPACE. A parcel or parcels of
land or an area of water or a combination of land and water withi
the site designated for a planned unit development, and designed
and intended primarily for the use or enjoyment of the residents
of such development.
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15.02.090. CONDITIONAL USE. A use permitted in a zoninq�
district only after review and approval by the Hearing Examiner. i
Conditional uses are such that they may be compatible only on cer
tain conditions in specific locations in a zoning district, or if
the site is regulated in a certain manner.
15.02.092. CREEKS, MAJOR. The following are major
creeks identified by the City of Kent.
A. Mill Creek
B. Garrison Creek and its tributaries
C. Springbrook Creek
D. Johnson Creek
E. Midway Creek
F. Star Lake Creek
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G. Bingaman Creek
H. Mullen Slough
I. Mill Creek (Auburn)
J. West Branch Big Soos Creek and tributaries
The location of these creeks is identified on the map
entitled "Hazard Area Development Limitations," KCC 15.08.222.
15.02.093. CREEKS, MINOR. All creeks other than major
creeks and generally including the following criteria; a course of
route as formed by nature, or as altered by human activity and
generally consisting of a channel with a bed, banks, or sides sub-
stantially throughout its length along with surface waters, with
some regularity, naturally and normally flow or drain from high ti
lower lands. The location of these creeks is identified on the
map entitled "Hazard Area Development Limitations," KCC 15.08.222
15.02.095. CROP AND TREE FARMING. The use of land for
horticultural purposes.
15.02.100. DEVELOPMENT PLAN. A plan drawn to scale,
indicating the proposed use, the actual dimensions and shape of
the lot to be built upon, the exact sizes and locations on the to
of buildings already existing, if any, and the location on the to
of the proposed building or alteration, yards, setbacks, land-
scaping, off-street parking, ingress and egress, and signs.
15.02.105. DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS. Regulations includin
but not limited to setbacks, landscaping, screening, height, site
coverage, signs, building layout, parking and site design and
related features of land use.
15.02.107. DISCONTINUANCE. The abandonment or nonuse o
a building, structure, sign and/or lot for a period of six (6)
months.
15.02.110. DISTRICT. An, area designated by the Kent
Zoning Code with specific boundaries in which lie specific zones
which zones are described in the code.
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. (0.2740, §1)
15.02.112. DRAINAGE DITCHES. A manmade channel with a
bed, bank or sides which discharges surface waters into a major o
minor creek, lake, pond or wetland.
15.02.115. DWELLING, SINGLE FAMILY. A detached residen
tial dwelling unit other than a mobile home, designed for and
occupied by one family only.
15.02.120. DWELLING, TWO FAMILY. A detached residentia
building containing two dwelling units, designed for occupancy by
not more than two families.
15.02.125. DWELLING, MULTIPLE FAMILY. A residential
building designed for or occupied by three or more families, with
the number of families in residence not exceeding the number of
dwelling units provided.
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15.02.130. DWELLING UNIT. One room, or rooms connected
together, constituting a separate, independent housekeeping estab
lishment for owner occupancy, or rental or lease on a weekly,
monthly, or longer basis, and physically separated from any other;
rooms or dwelling units which may be in the same structure or on
the same property and containing independent cooking and sleeping,
facilities.
15.02.132.
EROSION HAZARD AREA.
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A. Class 1 Erosion Hazard Areas. All areas of the
City, other than Class 2 or 3 erosion hazard areas. These areas
are areas where no development limitations are deemed necessary,
except where described under Chapter 15.04 - District Regulations.
B. Class Erosion Hazard Areas. All soils mapped by th
Soil Conservation Service as having moderate to severe erosion
hazard potential. These soils in the City of Kent include Arents,
Alderwood material (AmC), Alderwood gravelly sandy loam (AgC), anc
Everett gravelly sandy loam (FvD).
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C. Class 3 Erosion Hazard Areas. All soils mapped by
the Soil Conservation Service as having a severe to very severe
erosion hazard potential. These soils in the City of Kent includ�
Alderwood gravelly sandy loam (Agd) and Alderwood Kitsap soil
(AKF).
D. Soil Conservation Service Maps referenced herein ar�
on file with the City Clerk.
15.02.135. FAMILY. A person living alone, or two or
more persons customarily living together as a single housekeeping
unit and using common cooking facilities, as distinguished from a
group occupying a hotel, club, boarding or lodging house.
15.02.140. FENCE - SIGHT CPSCURING. The minimum for a 1,
sight -obscuring fence is a chain-link fence with woven slats in
every row or available space of the fence.
15.02.145. FENCE - 100% SIGHT OPSCURING. A fence con-
structed of solid wood, metal or other appropriate material which
totally conceals subject use from adjoining uses at six (6) feet
above the base of the fence line, at twenty (20) feet from subjeci,
property line.
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15.02.150. FRONTAGE, BUILDING OR OCCUPANCY. The length
of that portion of a building or ground floor occupancy which
abuts a street, publicly used parking area, or mall appurtenant td
said building or occupancy expressed in lineal feet and fractions
thereof.
15.02.155. GARAGE OR CARPORT, PRIVATE. A building, or
portion of a building principally for vehicular equipment such asal i
automobiles, boats, etc., not more than one thousand (1,000)
square feet in area, in which only motor vehicles used by the
tenants of the building or buildings on the premises are stored orl
kept.
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15.02.160. GENERAL CONDITIONAL USES. Uses described in
Section 15.08.030. Such uses shall be deemed conditional uses in
all districts.
15.02.165. GRADE. The lowest point of elevation of the';
finished surface of the ground between the exterior wall of a
building and a point five feet distant from said wall, or the
lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground
between the exterior wall of a building and the property line if
it is less than five feet distant from said wall. In case walls
are parallel to and within five feet of a public sidewalk, alley i
or other public way, the grade shall be the elevation of the side
walk, alley or public way.
15.02.170. GROSS FLOOR AREA. The area included within
the surrounding exterior walls of a building expressed in square
feet and fractions thereof. The floor area of a building not
provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be the usable area
under the horizontal projections of the roof or floor above.
15.02.175. GROUNDCOVER. Low growing vegetative
materials with a mound or spreading manner of growth that provide.
solid cover within two years after planting. (Examples: sod or
seed lawn, ivy, junipers, cotoneaster, etc.)
15.02.180. GUEST COTTAGE. An accessory, detached
dwelling without any kitchen facilities designed for and used to
house transient visitors or non-paying guests of the occupants of
the main building.
15.02.185. HEARING EXAMINER (LAND USE). A person
appointed by the City Administrator to conduct public hearings on
applications outlined in the City ordinance creating the Hearing
Examiner, and who prepares a record, findings of fact and conclu-
sions on such applications.
15.02.187. HIGHEST SHADE PRODUCING POINT. The point of
a structure which casts the longest shadow at noon on January 21.
15.02.190. HOME OCCUPATION. The carrying on of a lawfu:
business activity within the dwelling unit by the inhabitants of
the dwelling unit. (0.2424, §1)
15.02.195. HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION. An incorporated,
non-profit organization operating under recorded land agreements
through which (a) each lot owner is automatically a member and (b
each lot is automatically subject to a charge for a proportionate
share of the common property and (c) a charge if unpaid, becomes
lien against the property.
15.02.200. HOTEL. Any building containing six or more
guest rooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used,
rented, or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for
sleeping purposes by guests.
15.02.202. IMPERVIOUS SURFACES. That hard surface area
which either prevents or retards the entry of water into the soil
mantle as it entered under natural conditions pre-existent to
development, and/or that hard surface area which causes water to
run off the surface in greater quantities or at an increased rate
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of flow from that present under natural conditions pre-existent t
development. Common impervious surfaces include, but are not lim
ited to, roof tops, concrete or asphalt paving, paved walkways,
patios, driveways, parking lots or storage areas, and oiled, maca
dam or other surfaces which similarly impede the natural infiltra
tion of surface water.
15.02.205. INTFRICR CCURT. A space, open and
unobstructed to the sky, located at or above grade level on a lot!
and bounded on three or more sides by walls of a building.
15.02.210. JUNK YARD. A place where waste, discarded or
salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled,
cleaned, packed, disassembled, or handled, including auto and
motor vehicle wrecking yards, house wrecking yards, used -lumber
yards and yards for use of salvaged house wrecking and structural
steel materials and equipment.
15.02.215. KFNNFL. Any premises on which four (4) or
more dogs, which are five -months old or older are kept.
15.02.217. LAKFS. Natural or artificial bodies of water
of two or more acres and or where the deepest part of the basin at
low water exceeds two meters (6.6 feet). Artificial bodies of
water with a recirculation system approved by the Public Works
Department are not included in this definition.
15.02.220. LANDSCAPING. Vegetative cover including
shrubs, trees, flowers, seeded lawn or sod, ivy and other similar
plant material.
15.02.222. LANDSLIDE AREAS.
A. Class 1 Landslide Areas. All areas of the City,
other than Class for 3 landslide hazard areas. These areas are 1
areas where no development limitations are deemed necessary,
except where described under Chapter 15.04 - District Regulations.
P. Class 2 Landslide Areas. Slopes of 15 percent or
greater with permeable subsurface material (predominately sand an
gravel) to base level.
C. Class 3 Landslide Areas. Class 3 landslide hazard
areas means those areas subject to a severe risk of landslide, du
to the combination of: (a) slopes greater than fifteen (15) per-
cent; and (b) impermeable subsurface material (typically silt and
clay) sometimes interbedded with permeable subsurface material
(predominantly wet sand and gravel) between the top and base
(foot) elevations; and (c) characterized by springs or seeping
groundwater during the wet season (November to February). These
areas include both active and currently inactive slides.
15.02.225. LOT. For the purposes of this code a lot is
a parcel of land of at least sufficient size to meet minimum
zoning requirements for use, coverage, and area, and to provide
such yards and other open spaces as are herein required. Such lot,
shall have frontage on an improved public street, or on an
approved private street, and may consist of:
A. A single lot of record;
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B. A portion of a lot of record;
C. A combination of complete lots of record, and
portions of lots of record;
D.
A parcel of land described by metes and bounds;
provided that in no case of division or combination shall any
residual lot or parcel be created which does not meet the require
ments of this code.
15.02.230. LOT, CORNER. A lot abutting upon two (2) orl
more streets at their intersection, or upon two (2) parts of the
same street, such streets or parts of the same street forming an i
interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees
within the lot lines.
15.02.235. LOT FRONTAGE. The front of a lot shall be
that portion nearest the street. On a corner lot the front yard
shall be considered the narrowest part of the lot that fronts on
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street, except in industrial and commercial zones in which
case
the user of a corner lot has the option of determining which part
of the lot fronting on a street shall become the lot frontage.
15.02.240. LCT LINES. The property lines bounding the
lot.
15.02.245. LOT MEASUREMENTS.
A. Depth of a lot shall be considered to be the
distance between the foremost points of the side lot lines in
front and the rearmost points of the side lot lines in the rear.
B. Width of a lot shall be considered to be the
distance between the side lines connecting front and rear lot
lines, provided, however, that width between side lot lines at
their foremost points (where they intersect with the street line)
shall not be less than eighty (80) percent of the required lot
width except in the case of lots on the turning circle of
cul-de-sacs, where eighty (80) percent requirement shall not appli,
15.02.250. LOT OF RECORD. A lot which is part of a sub-
division recorded in the office of the County Assessor, or a lot
or parcel described by metes and hounds, the description of which
has been so recorded.
15.02.252. LOT, RIVERFRONT. Any lot or land parcel
which is adjacent to the Green River, a scenic and recreational
road, a riverfront road or a riverfront park. (0.2544, §3)
15.02.255. LOT, THROUGH. A lot that has both ends
fronting on a street. Either end ma.y be considered the front.
15.02.257. MAJOR NONCONFORMING BUILDING/STRUCTURE. Any
nonconforming building or structure located on a parcel which at
any point borders or is in a residential district and which is no
in compliance with the minimum development standards of the
district in which it is located.
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15.02.258. MINOR NONCONFORMING BUILDING/STRUCTURE. Any
nonconforming building or structure which is not a major noncon-
forming structure and which is not in compliance with the minimum
development standards of the district in which it is located.
15.02.260. MOBILE HOME. A factory constructed
residential unit with its own independent sanitary facilities,
that is intended for year round occupancy, and is composed of one
or more major components which are mobile in that they can be
supported by wheels attached to their own integral frame or
structure and towed by an attachment to that frame or structure
over the public highway under trailer license or by special permit.
15.02.265. MOBILE HOME PARK. An area under one
ownership designed to accommodate ten (10) or more mobile homes.
15.02.270. MOTEL, INCLUDING HOTEL AND MOTOR HOTEL. A
building or group of buildings comprising individual sleeping or
living units for the accommodation of transient guests for
compensation.
15.02.275. NATURAL OR NATIVE AREAS. All or portions of
a parcel of land undisturbed by development, and maintained in a
manner which preserves the indigenous plant materials.
15.02.280. NET ACRE. The buildable area after the area
of street rights of way has been subtracted.
15.02.282. NONCONFORMING LOT OF RECCRD. Any validly
recorded lot which at the time it was recorded fully complied with
the applicable laws and ordinances but which does not fully comply
with the lot requirements of this ordinance.
15.02.283. NONCONFORMING SIGN. Any sign legally estab-
lished prior to June 20, 1973 which is not in full compliance with
the regulations of this ordinance.
15.02.285. NONCONFORMING USE. The use of land, a
building or a structure lawfully existing as of June 20, 1973
which does not conform with the use regulations of the district in
which it is located on the effective date of such use regulations.
15.02.286. NONCONFORMITY. Any land use, structure, lot
of record or sign legally established prior to the effective date
of this code or subsequent amendment to it which would not be per-
mitted by or is not in full compliance with the regulations of
this ordinance.
15.02.287. NORTHERN LOT LINE. A lot line or lines less
than 45 degrees southeast or southwest of a line drawn east -west
and intersecting the northernmost point of the lot. If the nor-
thern lot line adjoins any unbuildable area (e.g., streets,
alleys, public rights of way, parking lots, common areas) other
than required yard area, the northern lot line shall be that por-
tion of the northerly edge of the unbuildable area which is due
north from the actual northern lot line of the applicant's
property.
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15.02.288. NORTH -SOUTH LOT DIMENSION. The average dis-
tance between lines from the corners of the northern lot line
south to a line drawn east -west and intersecting the southernmost
point of the lot.
15.02.290. NURSERY SCHOOL CR DAY CARF CENTERS.
Nurseries or day care centers shall mean any type of group day
care programs, including nurseries for children of working
mothers, nursery schools for children under minimum age for
education in public schools, parent cooperative nursery schools,
playgroups for preschool children, programs covering after-school
care for school children, provided such establishment is licensed
by the State and conducted in accordance with State requirements.)
15.02.295. OCCUPANCY. The�
purpose for which a building;
is used or intended to be used. The term shall also include the
building or room housing such use. Change of occupancy is not
intended to include change of tenants or proprietors.
15.02.300. OFFICIAL MAP. Maps showina the designation,
location and boundaries of the various districts which have been
adopted and made a part of this code.
15.02.305. OPEN GREEN AREA. Landscaped areas and areas
of natural or native vegetation.
15.02.310. ORDINARY HIGH WATER MARK. Ordinary high
water mark on the Green River, Lake Fenwick, streams, marshes, an(
swamps is that mark that will be found by examining the bed and
banks and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters ar(
so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years,
as to mark upon the soil a character distinct from that of the
abutting upland, in respect to vegetation as that condition exist:
on the effective date of this Chapter, or as it may naturally
change thereafter: PROVIDED, that in any area where the ordinary
high-water mark cannot be found the ordinary high-water mark shall
be the line of mean high water.
15.02.315. OUTSIDE STORAGE. All or part of a lot which
is used for the keeping of materials or products in an open,
uncovered yard or in an unwalled building. Such materials shall
not be for general public consumption or viewing. Such materials
shall include tractors, backhoes, heavy equipment, construction
materials and other similar items which detract from the appear-
ance of the zone in which they are located.
15.02.320. PARKING SPACE OR PARKING STALL. A parking
space is any off-street space intended for the use of vehicular
parking with ingress or egress to the space easily identifiable.
15.02.325. PARKING, TEMPORARY. Parking facilities
specifically designed to accommodate not less than 51 vehicles ani
intended for public use for a period of not more than five (5)
years, subject to annual maintenance review by Engineering Depart.
ment. Temporary parking shall not be in lieu of specified
off-street parking as required in Chapter 15.05, Cff-Street
Parking and Loading Requirements.
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15.02.330. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS. Regulations for the I
control of "dangerous or objectionable elements" as defined in
Subsection 15.08.505 A. i
15.02.335. PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. Planned Unit
Development is a residential development built under those provi-i
sions of this code which permit departures from the conventional i
siting, setback, and density requirements of other sections of
this code in the interest of achieving superior site development,
creating open space, and encouraging imaginative design by permit
ting design flexibility.
15.02.336. PARK, RIVERFRONT. A publicly -owned open
space which lies along the Green River, along a scenic and
recreational road. (0.2544, §6)
15.02.337. RAVINE. An area constituting a "young
valley" which contains a major or minor creek. It includes the
bottom land of the ravine and the ravine sidewalls to a point
where the slopes are less than fifteen (15) percent. See
following illustration.
15.02.338. RECREATIONAL VEHICLES. Motorized vehicles
that include a cabin for living accommodations and are commonly
used for recreational travel and touring. Vehicles included in
this category come in several forms; travel trailers, tent
trailers and camping trailers, all of which must be towed by a
car; and truck campers, motor homes and camper vans, all of which
have the motor within the body of the vehicle.
Recreational vehicles may also include any motorized or
nonmotorized vehicle, boat, boat trailer, or other vehicle to be
used for recreational purposes.
15.02.339. ROAD, SCENIC AND RECREATIONAL. Russell and
Frager Roads shall be designated as Scenic and Recreational Roads,
(0.2544, §2)
15.02.340. ROADSIDE STAND. A temporary structure
designed or used for the display or sale of agricultural products
primarily produced on the premises upon which such a stand is
located.
15.02.342. SEISMIC HAZARD AREAS.
A. Class 1 Seismic Hazard Areas. All areas of the
City, other than Class 2 or 3 seismic hazard areas. These areas
are areas where no development limitations are deemed necessary,
except where described under Chapter 15.04 - District Regulations
B. Class 2 Seismic Hazard Areas. Class 2 seismic
hazard areas means those areas where soils are characterized by
moderately well -drained alluvium and glacial outwash of moderate
density.
C. Class 3 Seismic Hazard Areas. Class 3 seismic
hazard areas means those areas subject to severe risk of
earthquake damage due to soils of low density, due to poorly
drained or impervious alluvium, due to highly saturated organic
material or due to slopes greater than fifteen (15) percent,
excluding those Alderwood gravelly sandy loam (AgD) soils located
on slopes less than twenty-five (25) percent overlying thick
sequences of Vashon till.
15.02.343. SERVICE USES OR ACTIVITIES. A business which
sells the knowledge or work of its people rather than a tangible
product.
15.02.345. SHOPPING CENTER. A retail shopping area
designed as a unit, which utilizes a common parking area.
15.02.350. SIGN. Any structure, device, letter, figurer
character, poster, picture, trademark or reading matter which is
used or designed to announce, declare, demonstrate, display or
otherwise identify or advertise, or attract the attention of the
public. However, a sign shall not include the following:
A. Official notices authorized by a court, public body
or public officer.
B. Direction, warning, or information sign authorized
by federal, state or municipal authority.
C. The official flag, emtlem or insignia of a
government, school or religious group or agency.
D. Memorial plaque or tablet; "cornerstones" indicatin
the name of a building and date of construction, when cut or
carved into any masonry surface or when made of bronze or other
incombustible material and made an integral part of the building
or structure.
15.02.355. SIGN AREA. The total area of all faces of a',
sign expressed in square feet. Area is measured from the outside
perimeters (including backup, molding, framing, decorative scroll-
work, etc.). The area of a group of individual mounted letters or,
figures shall be the area of the geometric form necessary to
enclose same.
15.02.360. SIGN HEIGHT. The distance from ground level)
to the highest point on the sign structure.
15.02.365. SIGN, ABANDONED. Any sign which has been
deserted and its effective use terminated, and which no longer
fulfills the purpose for which it was constructed.
15.02.370. SIGNS, ADVERTISING. A sign which directs
attention to a business, commodity or service or entertainment
sold or offered elsewhere than on the premises and only
incidentally on the premises.
15.02.375. SIGN, BUSINESS. A sign which directs
attention to a business, commodity, service or entertainment
conducted, sold or offered on the premises.
15.02.380. SIGN, CANCPY.
underside of a canopy.
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A sign attached to the
15.02.385. SIGN, CONSTRUCTION. A temporary sign placed
in advance of occupancy of a building or structure indicating the
name of the building or structure, the architects, the
contractors, and other information regarding the building or
structure.
15.02.390. SIGNSr DIRECTICNAL AND INFORMATIONAL. A sig
designated to guide or direct pedestrians or vehicles.
15.02.395. SIGN, FLASHING. An illuminated sign with
action or motion, light or color changes.
15.02.400. SIGN, FREESTANDING. A sign standing directly
upon the ground' or having one or more supports standing directly
upon the ground, and being detached from any building or structur�.
15.02.405. SIGN, GATE OR ENTRANCE. A sign attached or
adjacent to an entrance way of a residential site or subdivision
which identifies the site or subdivision.
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15.02.410. SIGA], IDEA?TIFICATION. A sign used only for
the purpose of identifying the occupancy of a building, structure;
or property. j
15.02.415. SIGN, ILLUMINATED. A sign designed to give
forth any artificial light or reflect such light from an artifi-
cial source.
15.02.420. SIGN, INDIRECTLY ILLUMINATED. Illuminated
non -flashing sign whose illumination is derived entirely from an
external artificial source and is so arranged that no direct rays
of light are projected from such artificial source into residence;
or street.
15.02.425. SIGN, INSTITUTIONAL. A sign used only for
the purpose of identifying an institution.
15.02.430. SIGN, OFF -PREMISE. A sign not located on or
supported by a structure not located on the same premises as the
business, product, service or activity being identified or adver-
tised by such sign or an advertising sign.
15.02.435. SIGN, ON -PREMISE. A sign identifying a busi
ness, product, service or activity conducted or sold on the same
premises as that on which the sign is located.
15.02.440. SIGN, PAINTED. A sign which is painted on
any office, wall, window, fence or structure of any kind.
15.02.445. SIGN, POLITICAL. A sign advertising a Candi
date for political office, or a measure scheduled for election.
15.02.450. SIGN, PORTAELF. A sign which is not perma-
nently affixed to the ground, or to a building or structure and
may be easily moved.
15.02.455. SIGN, PROJECTING. A sign affixed to the
exterior wall of a building or structure with the exposed faces
perpendicular to the plane of said wall.
15.02.460. SIGN, ROOF. A sign attached to a building
which projects above the structure of the building. (This define
tion refers to the architectural unity of a building or structure.)
15.02.465. SIGN, ROTATING. A sign containing moving
parts.
15.02.470. SIGN, SUBDIVISION. A sign erected and main-
tained within the boundaries of a recorded subdivision and indi-
cating the name of the subdivision, the name of the contractor or
subdivider, the name of the owner, or agent, and giving informa-
tion regarding directions, price or terms.
15.02.475. SIGN, TEMPORARY. A sign intended to
advertise community or civic projects, construction projects, rea.
estate for sale or lease or other special events on a temporary
basis.
15.02.480. SIGN, WALL. A sign affixed to the exterior
wall of a building or structure with the exposed face of the sign
on a plane parallel to the plane of said wall.
15.02.485. SIGN, WINDOW. A sign painted on, affixed to
or placed in an exterior window with the exposed face of the sign
on a plane parallel to the plane of said window.
15.02.490. SITE COVERAGE. That portion of a lot covere
by buildings or structures.
15.02.495. SLOPE LINE. Defined as perpendicular to the
contour lines crossing the property. The precise bearing or
heading of the slope line shall be determined by the Planning
Department.
15.02.496. SOLAR FACTOR. A number assigned to every to
which is based on the lots north -south lot dimension and solar
slope as determined by Table 1, Section 15.08.234.
15.02.497. SOLAR SETBACK. A setback from the northern
lot line equal to the distance between the northern lot line and
that point on grade immediately beneath the highest shade
producing point of a structure.
15.02.498. SOLAR SLOPE. The average of slope lines fro
the corners of the northern lot line south to a property line.
The slope of a single line is determined by dividing the vertical
distance between the two end points by the horizontal distance
between the same two points. North facing slopes will have a
negative (-) value. South facing slopes will have a positive (+)
value.
15.02.499. SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR. The processing of
solid wastes by means of pyrolysis, refuse -derived fuel, or mass
incineration within an enclosed structure. These processes may
include the recovery of energy resources from such waste or the
conversion of the energy in such wastes to more useful forms or
combinations thereof. This definition refers to City-wide or
regional scale operations and does not include solid waste
incineration which is accessory to an individual principal use.
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15.02.500. SPECIAL PERMIT. A permit issued for uses
permitted in a district provided such use meets the standards as
required for such use.
15.02.502. SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS.
1. Less than completely and opaquely covered humai
genitals, pubic region, buttock, and female breast below a point
immediately above the top of the areola; and
2. Human male Genitals in a discernibly turgid
state, even if completely and opaquely covered. (C.2687, §2)
15.02.503. SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES.
1. Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulatioi
or arousal;
2. Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse
or sodomy;
3. Fondling or other erotic touching of human
genitals, pubic region, buttock, or female breast. (0.2687. §2)
15.02.505. STACKING SPACE. The space specifically
designated as a waiting area for vehicles whose occupants will be
patronizing a drive-in business. Such space is considered to be j
located directly alongside a drive-in window, facility, or
entrance used by patrons and in lanes leading up to and away from,,
the business establishment.
15.02.510. STRUCTURE. That which is built or
constructed; an edifice or building of any kind or any piece of
work composed of parts jointed together in some definite manner
and includes posts for fences and signs, but does not include
mounds of earth or debris.
15.02.515. STORY. That portion of a building included
between the upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of
the floor next above, except that the topmost story shall be than
portion of a building included between the upper surface of the
topmost floor and the ceiling or roof above. If the
finished -floor level directly above a basement, cellar or unused
underfloor space is more than six feet above grade as defined
herein for more than fifty percent of the total perimeter or is
more than twelve feet above grade as defined herein at any point,
such basement cellar or unused underfloor space shall be con-
sidered as a story.
15.02.520. STREET. A public way thirty (30) feet or
more in right-of-way width which affords a primary means of acces
to property.
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15.02.525. TOWNHOUSE. Attached one or two-family dwel-�
lings, having no side yard and sharing a common wall with adjacent
dwelling units. J
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15.02.527. TRADE, RETAIL. The sale or rental of aoods I
and merchandise for final use or consumption. j
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15.02.528. TREE. Tree shall mean any living woody plant
characterized by one main stem or trunk and many branches, and
having a diameter of six (6) inches or more measured at three (3),
feet above ground level.
15.02.529. UNIQUE AND FRAGILE AREA. An area of special
environmental significance for wildlife habitat, threatened plan
communities, and/or natural scenic quality. The geographic
boundaries of these areas are officially delineated on the "Hazar(
Area Development Limitations" map, referred to above in Exhibit A
15.02.530. USE. An activity for which land or premises
or a building thereon is designed, arranged, intended, or for
which it is occupied or maintained, let or leased.
15.02.531. USE, CHANGE OF. A change of use shall be
determined to have occurred when it is found that the general
character of the operation has been modified. This determination
shall include review of but not be limited to: 1) hours of opera-
tion, 2) materials processed or sold, 3) required parking, 4)
traffic generation, 5) impact on putlic utilities, 6) clientele,
and 7) general appearance and location.
15.02.533. USE, TEMPORARY. Any activity and/or
structure permitted under the provisions of Section 15.08.205 of
the Kent Zoning Code which is intended to exist or operate for a
limited period of time and which does not comply with zoning code
development standards and requirements as specified for the zonin,
district in which it is located.
15.02.534. USED. The word "used" in the definition of
"Adult Motion Picture Theatre" herein, describes a continuing
course of conduct exhibiting "specific sexual activities" and
"Specified anatomical areas" in a manner which appeals to a
prurient interest. (0.2687, F2)
15.02.535. VARIANCE. A modification of regulations of
this code when authorized by the Board of Adjustment after finding
that the literal application of the provisions of the code would
cause undue and unnecessary hardship in view of certain facts and
conditions applying to a specific parcel of property.
15.02.539. VEGETATION, SHADING. This is vegetation
planted on the south side of a major creek that generally provide
shade from midmorning to midafternoon. Examples of shading vege-
tation are specified in KCC 15.08.200, "Landscaping."
15.02.540. VEGETATIVE AID. Bark mulch, gravel and othe
nonvegetative materials which promote vegetative growth by
retaining moisture or preventing weeds. These materials are not
substitute for vegetative cover.
15.02.545. VETERINARY CLINIC. Any premises to which
animals are brought, or where they are temporarily kept, solely
for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of any illness or
injury, which does not have outdoor runs.
15.02.550. VETERINARY HOSPITAL. Any premises to which
animals are brought, or where they are temporarily kept, solely
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for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of any illness or
injury, which may have outdoor runs.
15.02.555. VIEW. An unrestricted angle of vision eman-
ating from a location that qualifies as view property.
15.02.560. VIEW PROPERTY. Any property having a genera.
slope of 20 percent or more and that property located immediately
upslope of such property for a distance of 100 feet in R1-7.2,
R1-9.6, and R1-12 zones and a distance of 200 feet in all other
zones, from the contour line where the slope becomes 20% or
greater.
15.02.565. YARDS. The land unoccupied or unobstructed,
from the ground upward, except for such encroachments as may be
permitted by this code, surrounding a building site.
15.02.570. YARD, FRONT. An open space, other than the
court, on the same lot with the building, between the front line
of the building (exclusive of steps) and the front property line
and including the full width of the lot to its side line.
15.02.575. YARD, REAR. An open space on the same line
with the building between the rear line of the building (exclusiv
of steps, porches and accessory buildings) and the rear line of
the lot including the full width of the lot to its side lines.
15.02.580. YARD, SIDE. An open space on the same lot
with the building between the side wall line of the building and
the side line of the lot and extending from front yard to rear
yard. No portion of a structure shall project into any side yard
except cornices, canopies, eaves or other architectural features
which may project 2 feet, 0 inches.
15.02.585. ZONING. The regulation of the use of privat
lands or the manner of construction related thereto in the
interest of achieving a comprehensive plan of development. Such
regulation shall also govern those public and quasi -public land
use and buildings which provide for proprietary -type services for
the community's benefit as contrasted with governmental activi-
ties. Governmental activities are encouraged to cooperate under
these regulations to secure harmonious city development.
15.02.590. ZONING LCT. A tract of land occupied or to
be occupied by a principal building and its accessory facilities,
together with such open spaces and yards as are required under the
provisions of this code, having not less than the minimum area
required by this code for a zoning purpose in the district in
which such land is situated, and having its principal frontage on
a public street of standard width and improvement. A "zoning lot
need not necessarily coincide with the "record lot" which refers
to land designated as a separate and distinct parcel on a legally
recorded subdivision plat or in a legally recorded deed filed in
the records of the County.
15.02.595. ZONING PERMIT. A certificate, issued prior
to a building permit, that the proposed use is in accordance with
the requirements and standards of this code.
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section 2. The Kent City Zoning Code Section 15.04.180
is amended as follows:
15.04.180. LIMITED INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT OR M2. 221pose:
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 t,
be exclusive.
1. Manufacturing, processing, assembling, and
packaging of articles, products, or merchandise from previously
prepared natural or synthetic materials, including but not limiter
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 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-
tionary products, chocolate, cereal breakfast foods, bakery
products, paste products, fruits and vegetables, beer, beverages
(except fermenting and distillina), 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.
5. Warehousing and cistribution facilities and t
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 experimental
development laboratories.
9. Establishments engaged in electronic,
automotive, aerospace, missile, airframe, or related manufacturin
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 j
packaging of precision components and products; including i
precision machine shops for products such as radio and television!
equipment, business machine eauipment, home appliances; I
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. Thes
uses are intended primarily to serve the needs of the industrial
area, are compatible with the permitted types of industrial uses,
and will not interfere with the orderly development of the
industrial area. Such uses shall be limited to twenty-five (25)
percent of the gross floor area of any single or multibuilding
development. Retail and service uses which exceed the twenty-fiv
(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.) (C.2676 §2)
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 service
Banking and related services
Security broker, dealers and related
services
Commodity brokers, dealers and related
services
Insurance carriers
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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 servic(
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 servic
Direct mail advertising services
Stenographic services and other duplicatin
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 a.aencies
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d. Repair services
Electrical repair services
Radio and television repair services
Reupholstery and furniture repair services
Armature rewinding services
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e. Professional services
Medical and dental laboratory services
Legal services
Engineering and architectural services
Educational and scientific research servic(
Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping
services
Urban planning services
f. Contract construction services
Building construction - general contractor
services
Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning
services
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erhanging and decorating
Painting, pap
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
Lator 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 an
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. (0.2695 510)
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. 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 opera-
tions.
`I 2. Dwelling units, limited to not more than one
11 per establishment, for security or maintenance personnel and thei
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 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.
D. Conditional Uses. The following are the types of
conditional uses permitted in the M2 District, subject to approva:
by the Hearing Examiner. The list of Conditionally Permitted Use!
is illustrative of the types of uses which shall be permitted and
is not intended to be exclusive.
1. Any Principally Permitted Use whose operations
are predominantly conducted out-of-doors rather than completely
enclosed within a building.
2. Any type of Principally Permitted Use whose
operations are predominantly for the repair of products described
rather than the manufacturing or processing of such products.
3. Retail and service uses as listed in Subsectio
15.04.180 Al2 which individually or on a cumulative basis exceed
twenty-five (25) percent of the gross floor area of any single or
multibuilding development. Conditional Use Permits shall be
required on an individual tenant or business basis and shall be
granted only when it is demonstrated that the operational charac-
teristics of the use will not adversely impact on or off site
conditions on either an individual or cumulative basis.
15.08.030.
4. General Conditional Uses as listed in Section
5. Principally Permitted Uses in the M3 Districts.
6. Manufacturing of paint.
7. Automobile service centers, with or without
gasoline sales. (0.2742, Sl)
8. Source separation and recovery of recyclable
materials for solid wastes.
E. Development Standards.
1. Minimum lot. 20,000 square feet.
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2. Maximum site coverage. Sixty-five (65) percent.
3. Yards
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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 arterials 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.
i b. Side yard on flanking street of corner
lot. The minimum side yard on the flanking street of a corner
shall be related to the classification of the adjacent street
This classification shall be determined by the Kent Transportatio
Engineer. The setbacks are as follows:
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i. Properties fronting on arterials 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 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. Transitional
conditions shall exist when an M2 District adjoins a residential
district containing a density of two (2) dwelling units or more
per acre or a proposed residential area indicated on the 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 othe
similar conditions; or the industrial properties face on a limite
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..
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6. The landscaping requirements of Chapter 15.07
shall apply.
7. Outside storage. Outside storage or operation
I yards shall be confined to the area to the rear of a line which is
an extension of the front wall of the principal building and shall
be reasonably screened from view from any street by appropriate
walls, fencing, earth mounds, or landscaping.
8. Loading areas.
a. Loading areas must be located in such a
manner that no loading, unloading and/or maneuvering of trucks
associated therewith takes place on public rights-of-way.
b. Earth berms and landscaping shall be
rovided along street frontages as necessary to screen dock -high
loading areas from public ri hts-of-wa . Berms shall be a minimu
of 30 inches in bei ht. Landscaping located on the berm shall
conform to T e II landsca in described in Section 15.07.050 C)
Visual Buffer.
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9. Multitenant buildings. Multitenant buildings
shall be permitted.
10. Improvement and maintenance of yards and open
areas. All required yards, parking areas, storage areas, opera-
tions 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 tc
notify the owner or operator of the use in writing of such noncom-
pliance. The property owner or operator of the use shall be giver
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 a
provided in Section. 15.08.050 shall apply.
I. Development Plan Review. Development plan approval
is required as provided in Section 1.5.09.010. (0.2524, §2)
Section 3. Kent City zoning Code Section 15.04.190 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
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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 j
Principally Permitted Uses is illustrative of the types of uses
which shall to permitted in the M3 District and is not intended t
be exclusive.
1. Administrative or executive offices which are �I
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 i
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 merchandise 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 cleanin(
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 equipment,
such as motor vehicles, aircraft, trucks and trailers, mobile
homes, boats, missiles, railroad rolling stock, and other
transportation -oriented apparatus, tut 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.
10. Contractors' service yards and shops and
construction 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 microwave facilities incorporated as part of such uses.
14. Transportation and transit terminals, includinc
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 reasonable level of performance expected in the M3 district.
17. Truck repair and service facilities.
18. Cther 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.
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19. Manufacturing of paint.
20. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired an
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. (0.2695 511)
22. Source separation and recovery of recycle
materials from solid wastes.
P. Accessory Uses.
1. Repair operations for products described as
Principally Permitted Uses and sales and service incidental to a I
Principally Permitted Use, provided such operations are housed ash
a part of the building or buildings comprising the basic
operations.
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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 ini
such capacity. No other residential use shall be permitted.
3. Employee recreation facilities and play areas.
4. Restaurant, cafe, or cafeteria operated in
conjunction with a Principally Permitted Use for the convenience
of persons employed on the premises.
5. 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 illu-
strative of the types of uses which shall be permitted and not
intended to be exclusive.
1. Manufacture of such types of basic materials a:
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,j
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.'
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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.
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C. Pavina 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 reduction of
smelting, including blast furnaces, and including drop forging,
drop hammering, boiler plate works, and similar heavy metal opera-
tions.
a. Asphalt batching plants.
b. Concrete mixing and batching plants,
including ready -mix concrete facilities.
C. Rock crushing plants and aggregate dryers.
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.
b. Salvage of industrial waste materials, suc
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:
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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 inci-
dental to a Principally Permitted Use.
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)
percent.
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 ter
(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. Transitional
conditions shall exist when a M3 District adjoins a residential f
district containing a density of two (2) dwelling units or more
per acre or a proposed residential area indicated on the Kent j
Comprehensive Plan. Such transitional conditions shall not exist
where the separation includes an intervening use such as river,
railroad mainline, major topographic differential or other similarl
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
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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 impos
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 operation:
area shall be fenced for security and public safety at the
property line.
8. Multitenant buildings. Multitenant buildings
shall be permitted.
9. 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.
provided along
loading areas
of 20 inches i
conform to Typ
Visual Buffer.
b. Earth berms and landscaping shall be
street frontages as necessary to screen dock -high
from public rights-of-way. Berms shall be a mini.mun
n height. Landscaping located on the berm shall
e II landscaping described in Section 15.07.050(C),
10. Improvement and maintenance of yards and open
areas. All required yards, parking areas, storage areas, opera-
tions 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 tc
notify the owner or operator of the use in writing of such noncom-
pliance. The property owner or operator of the use shall be giver
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. The performance standards a:
provided in Section 15.08.050 shall apply.
H. Development Plan Review. Development plan approval
is required as provided in Section 15.09.010.
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Section 4. The Kent City Zoning Code Section 15.04.200
is amended as follows:
15.04.200. SPECIAL USF COMBINING DISTRICT OR SU.
Purpose: It is the purpose of this district to provide for
special controls for certain uses which do not clearly fit into
other districts, which may be due to technological and social
changes, or which are of such unique character as to warrant
special attention in the interest of the City's optimum develop-
ment and the preservation and enhancement of its environmental
quality.
A special use combining district is imposed on an
existing zoning district, permitting the special use as well as
uses permitted by the underlying zone. The combining district
becomes void if substantial construction has not begun within a
one (l) year period and the district reverts to its original
zoning designation.
It is the intent of the Special Use Combining Regulation
to provide the City with adequate procedures for controlling and
reviewing such uses and to discourage application for speculative;
, rezoning.
A. Uses Subject to Special Use Combining District
Regulations. The following list is illustrative of the types of
uses subject to Special Use Combining District Regulations and is'
not intended to be exclusive.
1• Occupy or would occupy large areas of land;
2. Would involve the construction of buildings or'
other structures of unusual height or mass;
3. House, employ, or serve large numbers of people;
4. Generate heavy traffic;
5. Have unusual impact on environmental quality of
the area;
6. Any use which does not lend itself to an
interpretation of substantial similarity to other uses identified
or described in this code.
7. Uses which, in the judgment of the Planning
Director, warrant review by the Planning Commission and the City
Council;
8. Examples of uses subject to review described
above would include, but are not limited to, the following,:
a. Commercial uses: sports stadiums, rodeos,'
fairgrounds, exhibition or convention halls, merchandise marts,
drive-in theaters.
b. Special environmental problems posed by:
refineries, nuclear power generating plants, airports, heliports,
sanitary land fills, extractive industries, solid waste
incinerators.
B. Application Procedures. The application procedure
for a Special Use Combining District shall be the same as for an
amendment to this code as provided in Section 15.09.050 except
that Development Plan approval is concurrent with the combining
district.
C. Documentation Required.
1. A vicinity map drawn to a scale not smaller
than 1,000 feet to the inch showing the site in relation to its
surrounding area, including streets, roads, streams, or other
bodies of water, the development characteristics and zoning
pattern of the area, and a scale and north arrow. Said vicinity
map may be in sketch form but shall be drawn with sufficient
accuracy to reasonable orient the reader to the vicinity, and to
adequately convey the required information.
2. A map or drawing of the site drawn to a scale
acceptable to the Planning Department (generally 100 feet to the
inch). Said map or drawing shall show the following information:
a. Dimensions and names of streets bounding or
touching the site.
b. Such existing or proposed features as
streams or other bodies of water, rights of way, easements, and
other physical or legal features which may affect or be affected
by the proposed development.
C. Existing and proposed topography at contour]
intervals not more than five (5) feet in areas having slopes
exceeding three (3) percent, and not more than two (2) feet in
areas having slopes of less than three (3) percent. +
d. Accurate legal description of the property.]
e. Existing and proposed structures or
buildings, including the identification of types and proposed use
of said structures. All uses must be compatible with the major
use.
f. Off-street parking and loading facilities.
q. Dimensions of the site, distances from
property lines, and space between structures.
h. Tentative routing of domestic water lines,
storm drains, sanitary sewers, and other utilities, including an
identification of planned disposal or run-off.
i. The Planning Department may also require
the developer to submit elevations, perspective renderings, or
such other graphic material or evidence to illustrate affect on
the view enjoyed by and from other properties in the vicinity.
j. Architectural renderings of buildings.
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information: k. A written statement providing the followin
staging or timing. i. Program for development, including
ii.
completion of development.
covenants, if any.
Proposed ownership pattern upon
Basic content of restrictive
iv. Provision to assure permanence and
maintenance of open space through means acceptable to the City of
Kent.
V. Statement or tabulation of number of
persons to be employed, served, or housed in the proposed develo
ment.
vi. Statement describing the relationship
of the proposed development to Kent's Comprehensive Plan.
vii. Statement indicating availability of
existing or proposed sanitary sewers.
3. Such other data or information as the Planning
Department may require.
D. Development Standards. In reviewing and approving
proposed developments falling under the purview of this section,
the Hearing Examiner and City Council shall make the following
findings:
reasonable; 1. That the location for the proposed use is
2. That existing or proposed traffic ways are
adequate to serve new development;
3. That setback, height, and bulk of buildings ar
acceptable for the proposed use and for the vicinity in which it
is located;
4. That landscaping and other site improvements
are comparable to the highest standards set forth for other
developments in this code;
5. That the performance standards pertaining to
air and water pollution, noise levels, etc., are comparable to th
highest standards specified for other uses in this code;
6. That the proposed development is in the public
interest and serves a need of community -wide or regional impor-
tance.
In reviewing and approving special uses, the Hearing
Examiner and the City Council may impose such conditions as it j
deems necessary in the interest of the welfare of the City and th
protection of the environment.
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E. One -Year Validity. Any Special Use Combining
District shall remain effective only for one year unless the use
is begun within that time or construction has commenced. If not
in use or construction has not commenced within one year of the
granting of the Special Use Combining District, the combining
district shall become invalid, and the original zoning designatioi
of the land shall apply.
F. Minor and Major Adjustments.
1. If minor adjustments are made following the
adoption of the final development plan and approval of the
Combining District, such adjustments shall be approved by the
Planning Director prior to the issuance of a building permit.
Minor adjustments are those which may affect the precise dimen-
sions or siting of buildings approved in the final plan, or the
density of the development or open space provided.
2. Major adjustments are those which, as
determined by the Planning Director, substantially change the
basic design, density, open space uses or other similar
requirements or provisions.
Authorization for major adjustments shall be
made by the Kent City Council.
3. The provisions above pertaining to minor and
major adjustments shall apply to various parts of a staged
development.
Section 5. The Kent City Zoning Code Section 15.07.040
is amended as follows:
CHAPTER 15.07
LANDSCAPING REGULATIONS
15.07.010. PURPOSE.
A. Provisions of this chapter are to provide minimum
standards for landscaping in order to maintain and protect
property values and enhance the general appearance of the City.
B. The Planning Director shall have the authority to
waive specific requirements or impose additional requirements in
unique or special circumstances to assure the fulfillment of the
stated purpose of this chapter and to allow for flexibility and
innovation of design. Special circumstances or unique conditions
shall be reviewed with the Planninq Director prior to submittal o:
a landscape plan. Examples of special conditions might include:
- Preservation of unique wildlife habitat
- Preservation of natural or native areas
- Compliance with special easements
- Renovation of existing landscaping
- Unique site uses
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15.07.020. LANDSCAPE PLAN APPROVAL.
A. A building permit shall not be issued until the
landscaping plan has been approved.
B. At the time of Development Plan Review, the Plannin
Department shall review specific landscape requirements with the
owner or their representative.
15.07.030. LANDSCAPE PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS.
A. Failure to complete all of the required landscaping
or any part of it within six (6) months of the building occupancy
issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy or the Planning r
Department final inspection, shall constitute a zoning violation.;
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B. It shall be the responsibility of the project
manager or business owner to contact the Planning Department upon'
completion of the landscaping work and request an inspection.
C. The Planning Department may inspect the landscaping!
upon request of the project manager or business owner or at any
time after the six month expiration date.
15.07.040. GENERAL LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENTS - ALL ZONES.
A. All parking areas of over 20,000 square feet shall
have a minimum of ten (10) percent of the parking, maneuvering
area, and loading space landscaped as a means to reduce the barren
appearance of the lot and to reduce the amount of storm water
runoff. Perimeter landscaping, required adjacent to property
lines, shall not be calculated as part of the ten (10) percent
figure.
B. All ingress/egress easements which provide corridor
to the subject lot not adjacent to a public right of way, shall b
considered the same as public right of way. Landscape require- i
ments for easement corridors shall be the same as those required
adjacent to public rights of way.
C. All outside storage areas shall be screened by
fencing and landscaping a minimum of five (5) feet in depth unles
determined by Development Plan Review that such screening is not
necessary because stored materials are not visually obtrusive.
The five-foot deep landscaped area can occur within the street
right of way abutting the property line.
D. All portions of a lot not devoted to building,
future building, parking, storage or accessory uses shall be
landscaped in a manner appropriate to the stated purpose of this
chapter.
E. All required landscaping areas shall extend to the
curb line or the street edge. A crushed rock path in lieu of
landscaping shall be required where appropriate as determined by
the Planning Department.
F. Required landscape areas which are inappropriate to
landscape due to the existence of rail lines or other features
shall be relocated first to another lot line, or second, to an
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equal -sized area in another portion of the lot --to be determined
by the Planning Department upon review with the owner or developer.
G. Bark mulch, gravel, or other nonvegetative material
shall only be used in conjunction with landscaping to assist
vegetative growth and maintenance or to visually complement plant,
material. Nonvegetative material is not a substitute for plant
material.
H. Required landscape areas shall be provided with
adequate drainage.
I. Slopes shall not exceed a 3 to 1 ratio (width to
height) in order to decrease erosion potential and assist in ease
of maintenance.
J. The perimeter of all parking areas which abut
residential zones or uses shall be landscaped to a minimum depth
of three (3) feet with Type II landscaping unless otherwise
provided by this chapter. A six foot high solid wood or
equivalent fence is also required. Substitute fencing, including
but not limited to chain link fence with slats, may be approved b
the Planning Director upon application of the developer and
adjacent residential property owners where such fencing shall
provide buffering consistent with the purpose and intent of this
chapter. "Adjacent residential property" for purposes of this
section shall mean abutting property, and lots immediately
adjacent to abutting property.
K. Landscaping shall not conflict with the safety of
those using adjacent sidewalks or with traffic safety. Safety
features of landscaping shall be discussed at the time of
Development Plan Review, if necessary.
L. Quantity, arrangement and types of plants installed
shall be appropriate to the size of the required landscape area
and purpose of planting area as noted in Section 15.07.050 "Types
of Landscaping".
M. All trash containers shall be screened from abutti
properties and/or streets by one hundred (100) percent
sight -obscuring fence or wall and appropriate landscaping.
N. Landscaping shall be placed outside of
sight -obscuring or one hundred (100) percent sight -obscuring
fences unless determined by the Planning Department that such
arrangement would be detrimental to the stated purpose of this
chapter.
C. All property abutting Highway 167 or Interstate 5
shall be landscaped to a minimum depth of ten (10) feet unless a
larger area is required elsewhere in this chapter.
P. All property abutting East Valley Highway between
South 180th Street on the north to the SR167 overpass on the sout]
shall be landscaped to a minimum depth of (15) fifteen feet unles,
a larger area is required elsewhere in this chapter.
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Section 6. Kent City Zoning Code Section 15.08.210 is
amended as follows:
15.08.210. TRANSITION AREA COMBINING DISTRICT.
Purpose: The purpose of this section is to provide a transition
area between industrial and residential zoning districts or
commercial and residential zoning districts. The transition area
provides both a physical and visual buffer between residential
districts and other land uses.
Transition area regulations shall be superimposed over
those of the underlying zones. Buildings and setback areas withi�
industrial or commercial districts shall be affected by these
regulations if they are less than three hundred (300) feet from a
property line in a single-family residential district, or are less
than one hundred fifty (150) feet from a property line in a multi
family residential district. Transition area regulations shall
apply to those areas designated as Transition Area Combining
Districts on the official zoning code map, which shall reflect
those areas designated as transition area combining districts as
set out in Charts A and B, following this section.
A. Building Height. Shall not exceed two (2) stories
or thirty-five (35) feet. Beyond this height, to a height not
greater than either three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet, two
(2) feet of yard space beyond that required for a particular
district shall be added to compensate for each foot of additional!
building height allowed at the Planning Director's finding that
such heights will not be detrimental to their surroundings.
B. Building Setback. Shall be a minimum of fifty (50)
feet from the nearest residential property line.
C. Building Length. Building frontage adjacent to
residential zones shall not exceed two hundred (200) feet.
D. Principal Access. Wherever possible, access to any!
use in a transition area shall be such that traffic does not {
travel through or past residential districts.
F. Sight Screening. Screening equivalent to Type I
(solid screen) specified in the City's landscape regulations shah
apply in a transition area directly adjacent to a residential
zone. Where a transition area occurs along a street that
separates industrial or commercial uses from residences, Type III
(visual buffer) planting shall apply.
F. Parking. Parking and internal circulation of
vehicles shall occur along boundaries with residential districts
only if sight screened according to Type III requirements of the
City's landscape regulations.
G. Building Size. No building shall exceed one
acre in size.
H. Glare. Highly reflective building materials
be avoided in transition areas unless it can be shown that
not adversely impact any other private or public property.
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I. Noise. Truck traffic and other noise normally
associated with an operation or use in the transition area shall
be limited to the hours between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
J. Separation of Buildings. Buildings shall be
separated by no less than twenty (20) feet. Variations in this
standard may be approved by the Planning Director if more usable
configuration of open space is obtained, while still protecting
visual transition to residential uses.
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Section 6. Any act consistent with the authority and
prior to the effective date of this ordinance is hereby ratified
and confirmed.
Section 7. 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:
IE JEN45E;20, CITY CL
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ANDRA DR SCOLL, CITY ATTORN
PASSED the day of
APPROVED the day of
PUBLISHED the day of
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DAN KELLEHER, MAYOR
1988.
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 here(
indicated.
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MARIE N, CIT CLERK
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