Chapter 17.52
M-1 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
Sections:
17.52.030 Permitted accessory uses.
17.52.040 Permitted conditional uses.
17.52.060 Development standards.
17.52.010 Purpose.
The M-1 light industrial district is established to preserve areas for industrial and related uses of such a nature that they do not create serious problems of compatibility with other kinds of land uses. Uses permitted in this district should not generate noise levels, light, odor or fumes that would constitute a nuisance or hazard. (Ord. 2011-29 § 5 (Att. B)).
17.52.020 Permitted uses.
Uses permitted in the M-l district shall be:
A. All uses permitted outright in the C-2 general business district;
B. Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices;
C. Automotive assembly and repair, auto body shops;
D. Auto detail shops;
E. Automobile, truck and machinery dealer (new and used), garage, automobile, truck and other vehicle repair;
F. Blacksmith, welding or other metal shops, excluding punch presses over 20 tons rated capacity and drop hammers;
G. Boat building;
H. Brewery producing in excess of that defined in GMC 17.12.300;
I. Building material storage yard;
J. Cereal mills;
K. Churches and similar places of worship;
L. Contractors’ or loggers’ equipment and trucks storage yard, plant, repair, or rental;
M. Contractors’ plant or storage yards;
N. Creamery, bottling, ice manufacture and cold storage plant;
O. Distillery;
P. Electrical central power station;
Q. Enameling or metal coating (galvanizing), or electroplating;
R. Farm equipment repair;
S. Food products, cosmetics, and pharmacology manufacturing, compounding, processing, and packaging; except fish and meat products and the reducing and refining of fats and oils;
T. Fuel oil distributor;
U. Grain elevator;
V. Heavy machinery sales and service;
W. Itinerant merchants when licensed as a stationary or mobile vendor by the city;
X. Laboratories, experimental;
Y. Landscape gardening and storage area for equipment and materials;
Z. Lumber sales business;
AA. Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, food and beverage products;
BB. Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials, such as bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, and glass;
CC. Membership clubs, as defined in GMC 17.12.296;
DD. Micro-breweries and micro-wineries;
EE. Mini-storage as defined under in GMC 17.12.310;
FF. Printing plant;
GG. Printing shops;
HH. Parking lots within 500 feet of a C-2 district boundary, provided such lots are paved and the development complies with the landscape and fencing requirements of the C-1 district, as enumerated in GMC 17.42.060;
II. Police and fire stations;
JJ. Public libraries and municipal office buildings;
KK. Research, development and assembly facilities for component devices and equipment of an electrical, electronic or electromagnetic nature;
LL. Railroad facilities of all types, except repair shops;
MM. Recycling center, as defined in GMC 17.12.372;
NN. Small animal hospitals when located not closer than 150 feet from any residential district and 400 feet or more from any hospital, nursing home, or institutions for the care of the infirm; providing the animals are housed indoors;
OO. Solid fuel yard;
PP. Spinning or knitting of cotton, wool, flax, or other fibrous materials;
QQ. Stores and shops for repair and similar services such as:
1. Locksmith shops,
2. Photo shops,
3. Shoe repair shops;
RR. Tire retreading or recapping;
SS. Towing shop and related facilities, including bull pens;
TT. Trucking, express and storage yards;
UU. Upholstery shops;
VV. Vocational training programs and apprenticeships;
WW. Veterinarian clinics for livestock, including outdoor treatment facilities, provided all boarding or overnight holding of animals occurs indoors;
XX. Warehouse;
YY. Welding shops;
ZZ. Wholesale business; and
AAA. Wineries producing in excess of that defined in GMC 17.12.480. (Ord. 2011-29 § 5 (Att. B)).
17.52.030 Permitted accessory uses.
Accessory buildings and accessory uses shall be permitted as defined in GMC 17.12.020 and 17.12.115.
A. On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating hazardous waste and lawfully allowed in this zone; provided, that such facilities meet state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.210.
B. Electric vehicle battery charging stations, as defined in GMC 17.12.186. (Ord. 2011-29 § 5 (Att. B)).
17.52.040 Permitted conditional uses.
The following uses may be permitted in the M-1 district upon approval of a special permit as provided in Chapter 17.86 GMC:
A. Unclassified and other uses identified in Chapter 17.86 GMC;
B. Day care center;
C. Private nursery school, preschool, child mini-day care and child day care center;
D. Public parks and playgrounds;
E. Community service facilities level one, as defined in GMC 17.12.155;
F. Single-family residential use within the business structures. Such residential use shall not exceed 40 percent of the business structure and the residence’s entrance must not front on the same street as the business entrance. It is the intention of this provision to allow business owners or managers to maintain a residence at the business site. (Ord. 2011-29 § 5 (Att. B)).
17.52.050 Prohibited uses.
The following uses are prohibited in the M-1 district:
A. Residential uses, except as provided for in GMC 17.52.040(F);
B. Public and private schools;
C. Junkyards, automobile wrecking yards, scrap iron, scrap paper, or rag storage, sorting or bailing;
D. Distillation of bones, wood, coal, or tar;
E. Explosives, manufacture or storage;
F. Fat rendering;
G. Fertilizer manufacture;
H. Exterminator and insect poison spray manufacture; and
I. Starch plants. (Ord. 2011-29 § 5 (Att. B)).
17.52.060 Development standards.
A. Minimum lot area: not required except for nonconforming residential uses which must retain a minimum of 5,000 square feet for single-family and 3,000 square feet for each additional unit;
B. Lot coverage: dictated by parking requirements, setbacks and landscaping;
C. Minimum yard setbacks: none required, except as required by Chapters 17.75 and 17.78 GMC, and by GMC 17.74.020 where an industrial zone adjoins a residential district;
D. Maximum building height: no restrictions except for airport height limitations;
E. Fences and hedges: see Chapter 17.75 GMC;
F. Parking: see Chapter 17.78 GMC; and
G. Landscaping: see Chapter 17.75 GMC. (Ord. 2011-29 § 5 (Att. B)).