Chapter 17.32
I Industrial District
Sections:
17.32.050 Lot and yard requirements.
17.32.060 Height and density requirements.
17.32.080 Parking requirements.
17.32.010 Purpose.
The purpose of the industrial or I district is to provide suitable area for heavy industrial uses which cannot appropriately be located within or near residential or light commercial areas because they involve heavy transportation or large operations with hazardous or obnoxious characteristics. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.32.020 Permitted uses.
Permitted uses in the I district are as follows:
(1) Machine shop;
(2) New and used heavy equipment sales, repair and rental;
(3) Warehousing and food or property storage facilities;
(4) Manufacturing, fabricating, and processing; provided, that such uses comply with the regulations of the Olympia Air Pollution Control Authority;
(5) Outdoor storage of contractor's equipment;
(6) Electrical substations;
(7) Treatment plants;
(8) On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating hazardous waste and lawfully allowed as a permitted or conditional use in this district; provided that the hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.070 as they now exist or are hereafter amended; or
(9) Retail/wholesale outlet appurtenant/incidental to permitted use. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.32.030 Conditional uses.
Conditional uses in the I district are as follows:
(1) Guesthouse and caretaker's single-family dwelling, incidental to a permitted use;
(2) Outdoor sales (mobile homes, boats and RVs, etc.);
(3) Restaurants, taverns or cocktail lounges;
(4) Bottlers or distributors;
(5) Automotive and truck cleaning;
(6) Retail and wholesale outlets appurtenant and incidental to a permitted use;
(7) Wholesale sales, storage or processing of flammables or explosive materials;
(8) Publicly owned facilities;
(9) Off-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities; provided, that the hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.210 as they now exist or are hereafter amended;
(10) Dwelling unit contained within a commercial building;
(11) Indoor amusements and entertainment; or
(12) Recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds in such portions of the industrial zone as are identified from time to time upon the zoning map of the city as being within the flood hazard overlay district (I-FH district). (Ord. 1556 §1, 2011: Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.32.040 Special conditions.
Special conditions in an I district are as follows:
(1) Temporary amusements and public assembly: Section 17.44.022;
(2) Resource extraction and grading;
(3) Exceptions to height restrictions: Section 17.44.028;
(4) For buildings or uses exceeding five thousand square feet in gross floor area, space shall be provided either inside or outside a building for loading and unloading goods and materials. Such space shall not be less than ten feet wide, twenty-five feet long, or fifteen feet in height if covered, and shall have access to an alley or street. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.32.050 Lot and yard requirements.
Lot and yard requirements in the I district are as follows:
(1) Minimum lot size: none;
(2) Minimum lot width: none;
(3) Minimum yard requirements: as provided within the building code. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.32.060 Height and density requirements.
Height and density requirements in the I district are as follows:
(1) Maximum building height: three stories and not more than forty-five feet. Greater building height may be allowed through a conditional use permit.
(2) Maximum density: none. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.32.070 Sign limitations.
Sign limitations in the I district for residential purposes are as indicated in the district where such residential use is permitted. Other permitted signs in the I district are as follows:
(1) Not more than two unlighted signs that pertain to the sale or lease of industrially-zoned land and that do not exceed thirty-two square feet in total area;
(2) Public service signs, subject to obtaining a conditional use permit. Such signs will not be subtracted from the property's allowable advertising area;
(3) Appurtenant and nonappurtenant signs with:
(A) A maximum area of two hundred square feet plus one-half square foot for each foot that the lot width or length (whichever is lesser) exceeds fifty feet,
(B) A maximum height of fifty feet, and
(C) Lighting provided only by a unit or group of units having an intensity no greater than 1.25 times the intensity of other lighting units within the same advertising area for appurtenant signs. On-and-off units shall be on at least for one second and off for one second. One-point and two-point flashers are not permitted;
(4) Signs projecting over public rights-of-way, provided they:
(A) Do not exceed one hundred square feet in total area,
(B) Are nonrotating,
(C) Are no closer than fourteen feet to the ground unless attached to the underside of a projecting canopy, in which case the sign shall not exceed six square feet in area nor be closer than nine feet to the ground, and
(D) Do not extend more than ten feet over the public way nor come closer than two feet to the edge of the motor-traveled way. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).
17.32.080 Parking requirements.
Minimum off-street parking in the I district shall be four parking spaces on site for all uses. See Section 17.44.033 for the area exempted from parking requirements. Other parking requirements are as follows:
(1) Laundry cleaning plants, automotive and heavy equipment sales and repair, and general storage facilities: one space per employee;
(2) Manufacturing, fabricating, and processing and treatment plants: one space for every two employees;
(3) Retail and wholesale sales: one space per seven hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area;
(4) Restaurants, lunchrooms and cafeterias: one space per one hundred seventy-five square feet of gross floor area. (Ord. 1366 (part), 1995).