HomeMy WebLinkAbout2803Ordinance No. 2803
["Beginning July 1, 1998"]
(Amending or Repealing Ordinances)
Repealed by Ord. 3409
ORDINANCE N0.
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent,
Washington, relating to land use and zoning,
amending Kent City Code 15.04.170 to allow
gymnastic schools as a permitted use in the M1,
Industrial Park District, and M2, Limited
Industrial District, and allowing health and
f� fitness clubs and facilities as a principally
permitted use in the M2, Limited Industrial
District.
Section 1. Section 15.04.170 of the Kent City Code is
hereby amended as follows:
15.04.170. INDUSTRIAL PARK DISTRICT OR Ml. Purpose:
The purpose of this district is to provide an environment
exclusively for and conducive to the development and protection of!
a broad range of industrial activities including modern, large
scale administrative facilities, research institutions and
specialized manufacturing organizations, all of a nonnuisance
type. This district is intended to provide areas for those
industrial activities that desire to conduct business in an j
atmosphere of prestige location in which environmental amenities
are protected through a high level of development standards.
It is also the purpose of this zone to allow certain
limited commercial land uses that provide necessary personal and
business services for the general industrial area. Such uses are
allowed in the M1 district, through the application of the
C -suffix, at centralized, nodal lccations where major arterials
intersect. (0.2711 §1)
A. Principally Permitted Uses - M1 District. The
following list is illustrative of the types of permitted uses and
is not intended to be exclusive.
1. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and
packaging of articles, products or merchandise from previously
prepared natural or synthetic materials, including but not limited
to asbestos, bristles, bone, canvas, cellophane and similar
synthetics, chalk, clay (pulverized only, with gas or electric
kilns), cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass (including
glass finishing), graphite, hair, horn, leather, paints (except
boiling processes), paper, paraffin, plastic and resins, precious
or semi-precious metals or stones, putty, pumice, rubber, shell,
textiles, tobacco, wire, wocc, wool and yarn.
2. Manufacturing, processing, treating,
assembling, and packaging of articles, products, or merchandise
from previously prepared ferrous, nonferrous or alloyed metals
(such as bar stock sheets, tubes, and wire and other extrusions),
including light foundary casting and forging operations and other
forming operations.
3. Printing, publishing and allied industries,
including such processes as lithography, etching, engraving,
binding, blueprinting, photocopying, film processing, and similar
operations or activities.
4. Manufacturing, processing, blending, and
packaging of the following:
a. Drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and
cosmetics.
b. Food and kindred products, such as confec-
tionary products, chocolate, cereal breakfast foods, bakery
products, paste products, fruits and vegetables, beer, beverages
(except fermenting and distilling), prepared food specialities
(such as coffee, dehydrated and instant foods, extracts, spices
and dressings) and similar products.
C. Dairy products and by-products, such as
milk, cream, cheese, and butter; including the processing and
bottling of fluid milk and cream and wholesale distribution.
5. Warehousing and distribution facilities and the
storage of goods or products, except for those goods or products
specifically described as permitted to be stored only as condi-
tional uses in the M3 District.
6. Crop and tree farming.
7. Administrative or executive offices which are
part of a predominant industrial operation.
8. Scientific research, testing and experimental
development laboratories.
9. Establishments engaged in electronic,
automotive, aerospace, missile, airframe, or related manufacturing
and assembly activities, including precision machine shops
producing parts, accessories, assemblies, systems, engines, major
components, and whole electronic or electrical devices,
automobiles, aircraft, missiles, aerospace, or underwater
vehicles, or similar products, including research and test
facilities, but specifically excluding explosive fuels and
propellants.
10. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and
packaging of precision components and products; including
precision machine shops for products such as radio and television
equipment; business machine equipment; home appliances;
scientific, optical, medical, dental, and drafting instruments;
photographic and optical goods; phonograph records and prerecorded
audio-visual tape; measurement and control devices; sound
equipment and supplies; personal accessories, and products of
similar character.
11. headquarter offices of industrial operations.
12. Alcoholic beverage processes, such as
distilling and fermenting.
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13. Retail and service uses as listed below.
A. Merchandise vending machine operators
B. Tire, batteries, and accessory (industrial
vehicles and equipment)
C. Eating places (except drive-ins or those
with drive-in or drive-through facilities)
14. Administrative, professional, medical,
financial and business offices and services, including, but not
limited to the following: (0.2771 F1)
a. Finance, insurance and real estate service]
Banking and related services
Security broker, dealers and related
services
Commodity brokers, dealers and related
services
Insurance carriers
Insurance brokers, agents and related
services
Real estate operators, lessors and
management services
Real estate agents, brokers and related
services
Real estate subdividing and developing
services
Housing and investment services
b. Personal services
Linen supply and industrial laundry
services
Diaper services
Rug cleaning and repair services
Photographic services
Beauty and barber services
Fur repair and storage services
C. Business services
Advertising services
Outdoor advertising services
Consumer and mercantile credit reporting
services; adjustment and collection
services
Direct mail advertising services
Stenographic services and other
duplicating and mailing services
Window cleaning services
Disinfecting and exterminating services
News syndicate services
Employment services
Food lockers (with or without food
preparation facilities)
Business and management consulting servic
Detective and protective services
Equipment rental and leasing services
Automobile and truck rental services
Motion picture distribution services
Travel agencies
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d. Repair services
Electrical repair services
Radio and television repair services
Reupholstery and furniture repair services
Armature rewinding services
e. Professional services
Medical and dental laboratory services
Legal services
Engineering and architectural services
Educational and scientific research
services
Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping
services
Urban planning services
Counseling services (0. 2676)
f. Contract construction services
Building construction. - general contractor
services
Plumbing, heating, and air conditioning
services
Painting, paperhanging and decorating
services
Electrical services
Masonry, stonework, the setting, and
plastering services
Carpentering and wood flooring
Roofing and sheet metal services
Concrete services
Water well trilling services
g. Educational services
Vocational or trade schools
Business and stenographic schools
Driving schools - truck
h. Miscellaneous services
Business associations and organizations
Labor unions and similar labor organizations
Health and fitness clubs and facilities (0.2711
Other service uses which may be deemed by the
Planning Director to be of the same general character and
compatible with those uses listed.
15. Gymnastic schools and similar uses
(45.7)) 16. Other similar uses which the Planning Director
finds compatible with the Principally Permitted Uses described
herein; consistent with the purpose and intent of the M1 District
and not of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining
properties.
((}6-)) 17. Existing dwellings may be rebuilt, repaired and
otherwise changed for human occupancy. Accessory uses for
existing dwellings may be constructed. Such uses are garages,
carports, storage sheds and fences.
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((}7—.)) 18. Municipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200. (0.2695 §9)
B. Principally Permitted Uses in MI -C District (C -suffix)
The following commercial uses are permitted in addition
to those listed in subsection A on properties designated with the
C -suffix pursuant to procedures specified in Section 15.09.050.
This list is intended to be illustrative of the types of
commercial uses permitted.
1. Automotive service, maintenance and repair
facilities.
2.
3.
4.
area of 3,000
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Bakeries and Confectioneries
Computer and software stores
Convenience and deli marts (maximum
square feet)
Convention facilities
Exhibition halls, art galleries
Hotel, motel
Liquor stores
Magazines and newspaper stands
Printing services
Private post offices
Shoe repair
Stationery and office supply stores
Tailoring
gross floor
Other similar uses which the Planning Director finds
compatible with the principally permitted uses described herein;
consistent with the purpose and intent of the M1 District and not
of a type to adversely affect the use of adjoining properties.
(0.2711)
C. Special Permit Uses. The following uses are permitted
provided they conform to the development standards listed in
Section, 15.08.020.
1. Gasoline service stations (with or without retail
convenience grocery sales).
2. Nursery schools and day care centers.
D. Accessory Uses. The following are the accessory uses
permitted in the M1 District.
1. Repair operations for products as described as
Principally Permitted Uses and sales and service incidental to a
Principally Permitted Use, provided such operations are housed as
a part of the building or buildings comprising the basic operaticn�
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 conjunc-
tion with a Principally Permitted Use for the convenience of
persons employed on the premises.
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5. Nursery schools and day care facilities operated in
conjunction with a permitted use.
6. Other accessory uses and buildings customarily
appurtenant to a Principally Permitted Use.
7. The following are accessory uses which are allowed
only in the MI -C district in cases where development plans
demonstrate a relationship between these uses and the principal
use or uses of the property:
1. Gift shops
2. Florist shops
3. Specialty clothing stores
E. Conditional Uses. The following are the types of
conditional uses permitted in the M1 District, subject to approval
by the Hearing Examiner. The list of Conditional Permitted Uses
is illustrative of the types cf uses which shall be permitted and
is not intended to be exclusive.
1. Any Principally Permitted Use whose operations are
predominately conducted out-of-doors rather than completely
enclosed within a building.
2. Any type of Principally Permitted Use whose opera-
tions are predominantly for the repair of products described
rather than the manufacturing or processing of such products.
3. General Conditional Uses as listed in Section
15.08.030.
4. Carloading and distribution facilities, rail -truck
transfer station.
5. Manufacturing of paint.
F. Development Standards.
1. Minimum lot One (1) acre.
2. Maximum site coverage. Sixty (60) percent.
3. Yards
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
i. Properties fronting on arterial and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of 40 feet.
ii. Properties fronting on local access
streets shall have a minimum setback of 30 feet. (0.2740, §2)
b. Side Yard. The minimum side yard on flanking j
street of corner lot shall to related to the classification of the
adjacent street. This classification, shall be determined by the
Kent Transportation Engineer. The setbacks are as follows:
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i. Properties fronting on arterial and
collector streets shall have a minimum setback of 40 feet.
ii. Properties fronting on local access
streets shall have a minimum setback of 30 feet. (0.2740, §2)
C. Side yards. The side yards shall have an
aggregate width of ten (10) percent of the lot width, but the
aggregate width need not be more than. forty (40) feet. There
shall be a minimum of fifteen (15) feet on each side. (0.2740, §2.
d. Rear yard. None required except as may be
required by other setback previsions of this section.
4. Yards, transitional conditions. Transitional
conditions shall exist when an Industrial Park, M1 District,
adjoins a residential district containing a density of two (2)
dwelling units or more per acre or a proposed residential area.
indicated on the Kent Comprehensive Plan. Such transitional
conditions shall not exist where the separation includes inter-
vening use such as river, freeway, railroad mainline, major
topographic differential or other similar conditions; or where the
industrial properties face on a limited access surface street on
which the housing does not face. When transitional conditions
exist as herein defined, a yard of not less than fifty (50) feet
shall be provided.
5. Setbacks, Green River. Development in the M1
District abutting the Green River (or Russell or Frager Roads
where such roads follow the river bank) shall set back from the
ordinary high water mark of said river a minimum of two hundred
(200) feet. Such setbacks are in accordance with the State
Shoreline Management Act of 1971, and shall be no more restrictive
than, but as restrictive as, said Shoreline Management Act.
6. Height limitations. Two (2) stories or thirty-five
(35) feet. Beyond this height, to a height not greater than
either four (4) stories or sixty (60) feet, there shall be added
one additional foot of yard for each one foot of additional
building height. The Planning Director shall be authorized to
approve one additional story, provided such height does not
detract from the continuity of the industrial area, and may impose
such conditions as may be necessary to reduce any incompatibility
with surrounding uses. Any additional height increase may be
granted by the Planning Commission. (0. 2676 §1)
7. The landscaping requirements of Chapter 15.07 shall
apply. Where building walls face adjacent streets and are
unfenestrated for more than 40 feet at any point along the facade,
additional landscaping shall be required to reduce visual
impacts. In such circumstances, Type II landscaping as defined in
Section 15.07.050, shall be required, provided that evergreen
trees shall be at least 10 feet in height and deciduous trees
shall be a minimum of 2 inch caliper at time of planting.
(0.2740, §2)
8. Enclosure of activities. Predominant acti'vi't'
and operations shall be
structures, except for
and unloading areas, or
ies
completely enclosed within buildings or
customary appurtenances, such as loading
where special conditions exist as a result
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of a conditional use public hearing. The Planning Director shall
be authorized to determine the reasonable application of this
provision in cases of operational hardship or other showing of
uncommon circumstances.
9. Outside storage or operations yard. Outside
storage or operations yards in the Ml zone shall be permitted only
as accessory uses. Such uses are incidental and subordinate to
the principal use of the property or structure. Outside storage
or operations yaras shall be confined to the area to the rear of
the principal building or the rear two-thirds (2/3) of the
property and reasonably screened from view from any property line
by appropriate walls, fencing, earth mounds, or landscaping.
Outside storage exceeding a height of fifteen (15) feet shall be
so placed on the property as to not detract from the reasonably
accepted appearance of the district.
10. Loading areas.
a. Loading areas must be located in such a manner
that no loading, unloading and/or maneuvering of trucks associated
therewith takes place on public rights of way.
b. Farth berms and landscaping shall be provided
along street frontages as necessary to screen dock -high loading
areas from public rights-of-way. Berms shall be a minimum of 36
inches and a maximum of 42 inches in height. Landscaping located
on the berm shall conform to Type II landscaping described in
Section 15.07.050(c). (0.2740, §2)
11. Multitenant buildings. Multitenant buildings shall
be permitted.
12. Improvement and maintenance of yards and open
space. All required yards, parking areas, storage areas, opera-
tions yards, and other open uses on the site shall be maintained
in a neat and orderly manner appropriate for the district at all
times. The Planning Director shall be authorized to reasonably
pursue the enforcement of these provisions where a use is in
violation and to notify the owner or operator of the use in
writing of such noncompliance. The property owner or operator of
the use shall be given a reasonable length of time to correct the
condition.
G. Signs. The sign regulations of Chapter 15.06 shall
apply. Signage on commercial uses in the M1 -C zone shall be as
specified in Section 15.05.050(2).
H. Cff-Street Parking.
1. The off-street parking requirements of Chapter
15.05 shall apply.
2. Those areas not required to be landscaped may be
used for off-street parking.
I. Performance Standards. The performance standards as
provided in Section 15.08.050 shall apply.
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J. Development Plan Review. Development plan approval is
required, as provided in Section 15.09.010. (0.2524, 51; 0.2676;
0.2711 §1)
Any act consistent with the authority and prior to the
effective date of this ordinance is hereby ratified and
confirmed. (C.2711 §2)
Section 2. Section 15.04.180 of the Kent City Code is
hereby amended as follows:
15.04.180. LIMI'T'ED INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT OR M2. Purpose:
i 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
I area.
A. Principally Permitted Uses.
illustrative of the types of permitted
be exclusive.
The following list is
uses and is not intended to
1. Manufacturing, processing, assembling, and
packaging of articles, products, or merchandise from previously
prepared natural or synthetic materials, including but not limited
to asbestos, bristles, bone, canvas, cellophane, and similar
synthetics, chalk, clay (pulverized only, with gas or electric
kilns), cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass (including
glass finishing), graphite, hair, horn, leather, paints (except
boiling processes), paper, paraffin, plastic and resins, precious
or semiprecious metals or stones, putty, pumic, rubber, shell,
textiles, tobacco, wire, wood, wool and yarn.
2. Manufacturing, processing, treating, assembling,
and packaging of articles, products, or merchandise from previ-
ously prepared ferrous, nonferrous or alloyed metals (such as bar
stock sheets, tubes, and wire and other extrusions), including
light foundry casting and forging operations and other forming
operations.
3. Printing, publishing and allied industries,
including such processes as lithography, etching, engraving,
binding, blueprinting, photocopying, film processing, and similar
operations or activities.
4. Manufacturing, processing, blending and packaging
of the following:
a. Drugs, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and
cosmetics.
b. Food and kindred products, such as confec-
tionary products, chocolate, cereal breakfast foods, bakery
products, paste products, fruits and vegetables, beer, beverages
(except fermenting and distilling), prepared food specialities
(such as coffee, dehydrated and instant foods, extracts, spices
and dressings), and similar products.
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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 distribution facilities and the
storage of goods or products including rail -truck transfer
facilities.
6. Crop and tree farming.
7. Administrative or executive offices which are part
of a predominant industrial operation.
8. Scientific research, testing, and experimental
development laboratories.
9. Establishments engaged in electronic, automotive,
aerospace, missile, airframe, or related manufacturing and
assembly activities, including precision machine shops producing
parts, accessories, assemblies, systems, engines, major compo-
nents, and whole electronic or electrical devices, automobiles,
aircraft, missiles, aerospace, or underwater vehicles, or similar
products, but specifically excluding explosive fuels and
propellants.
10. Manufacturing, processing, assembling and packaging
of precision components and products; including precision machine
shops for products such as radio and television equipment,
business machine equipment, home appliances; scientific, optical,
medical, dental, and crafting 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. These
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-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.) (0.2676 §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
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a. Finance, insurance and real estate services
Banking and related services
Security broker, dealers and related services
Commodity brokers, dealers and related services
Insurance carriers
Insurance brokers, agents and related services
Real estate operators, lessors and management
services
Real estate agents, brokers and related service
Real estate subdividing and developing services
Housing and investment services
b. Personal services
Linen supply and industrial laundry services
Diaper services
Rug cleaning and repair services
Photographic services
Beauty and barber services
Fur repair and storage services
C. Business services
Advertising services (general)
Outdoor advertising services
Consumer and mercantile credit reporting
services; adjustment and collection services
Direct mail advertising services
Stenographic services and other duplicating and
mailing services
Window cleaning services
Disinfecting and exterminating services
News syndicate services
Employment services
Food lockers (with or without food preparation
facilities)
Business and management consulting services
Detective and protective services
Equipment rental and leasing services
Automobile and truck rental services
Motion picture distribution services
Travel agencies
d. Repair services
Electrical repair services
Radio and television repair services
Reupholstery and furniture repair services
Armature rewinding services
e. Professional services
Medical and dental laboratory services
Legal services
Engineering and architectural services
Educational and scientific research services
Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services
Urban planning services
f. Contract construction services
Building construction - general contractor
services
Plumbing, heatino, and air conditioning, service;
Painting, paperhanging and decorating services
Electrical services
Masonry, stonework, tile setting, and
plastering services
Carpentering and wood flooring
Roofing and sheet metal services
Concrete services
Water well drilling services
q. Educational services
Vocational or trade schools
Business and stenographic schools
Driving schocls - truck
h. Miscellaneous services
Business association and organizations
Labor unions and similar labor organizations
Other retail trade and service uses which may be
deemed by the Planning Director to be of the same general
character and compatible with those uses listed.
14. Gymnastic schools and similar uses.
15. Health and fitness clubs and facilities.
((+4-)) 16. 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.
17. 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.
((}6-)) 18. r^unicipal uses and buildings, except for such uses
and buildings subject to Section 15.04.200. (0.2695 X10)
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.
2. Dwelling units, limited to not more than one per
establishment, for security or maintenance personnel and their
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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 conjunc-i
tion with a Principally Permitted Use for the convenience of
persons employed on the premises.
5. Nursery schools and day care facilities operated inl
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 operations are
predominantly conducted out-of-doors rather than completely
enclosed within a building.
2. Any type of Principally Permitted Use whose opera-
tions 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 cumulative basis exceed
twenty-five (25) percent of the gross floor area of any single or
multibuilding development. Conditicnal 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, §1)
E. Development Standards.
1. Minimum lot. 20,000 square feet.
2. Maximum site coverage.
3. Yards
Sixty-five (65) percent.
a. Front yard. The front yard shall be fifteen
(15) percent of the lot depth. Regardless of lot size, the yard
depth need nct be more than forty-five (45) feet.
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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 aggre-
gate 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 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 re granted by the Planning Commission.
6. The landscaping requirements of Chapter 15.07 shall
apply.
7. Outside storage. Outside storage or operation
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. 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, 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
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enforcement of these provisions where a use is in violation and to'
notify the owner or operator of the use in writing of such nonco-
pliance. 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 perfcrmance 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. (0.2524, §2)
Section 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force five (5) nays from and after its passage,
approval and publication as pro iaea by law.
AN KELLEHER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
MARIE JENSEN, jZ',T.i"Y CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
PASSED the day of� . 1988.
APPROVED the _day of , 1988.
PUBLISHED the day of , 1988.
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I hereby certify that this is a true copy of Ordinance
No. r,
290,S , passed by the City Council of the City of Kent,
Washington, P and approved by the Mayor of the City of Kent as hereo�
�
indicated.
6130-210
T (SEAL)
FARIE JE ,CIT CLERK
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