Chapter 18.39 B-P Business Park
Uses
Permitted by right15
- Professional offices
- Medical, dental, and testing laboratories
- Research and development facilities
- Warehousing activities, including wholesale storage and distribution, but not including storage of flammables, explosives, or materials which create dust, odors, or fumes
- Classrooms and studios
- Printing and lithographing
- Manufacturing, fabrication, painting, and assembly
- Wholesale sales, but not including storage of flammables, explosives, or materials which create dust, odors, or fumes
- Repair/maintenance facilities
- Retail sales associated with production or warehousing activities
- Public and private parking lots
- Indoor sports facilities
- Day care facilities
- Bottling works, distilleries, breweries
- All other uses similar to those enumerated above, as determined by the planning director, upon presentation of substantial evidence, to be of the same general character as the above-permitted uses and compatible with the intent of the district
Conditional / special use1
- Uses with outdoor component (e.g., storage, assembly of parts, play areas)
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Design review required
All development shall be subject to design review according to the provisions of this title.
Environmental
- Control of odor, dust, noise, waste
All activities shall ensure that adequate measures, as determined by the planning director, are taken to control odor, dust, noise, and waste disposal so as not to constitute a nuisance;
Noise
- Hours of operation for audible activities
activities which generate sounds audible from off-site shall be limited to the hours of seven a.m. and ten p.m.
Other
- All uses except parking lots must be enclosed
Except as otherwise approved by use permit, all uses, except parking lots, must be conducted entirely within an enclosed building;
- Landscaping in front and side yards
Landscaping as approved by design review shall be established and maintained by the property owner or assigned manager within front yard and side yard areas.
- One tree per 8 parking spaces for lots with 16+ spaces
For parking areas with sixteen or more spaces, the minimum landscaping required shall be one tree, within the parking area, of a species suited to the area climate zone for every eight parking spaces to provide shade and visual diversity.
Parking
- Parking areas paved
All parking areas and access roads shall be paved.
Signage
- Maximum sign area70 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Signs shall conform to applicable general provisions of Chapter 18.106, shall be attached to a building, limited to not more than three signs of not more than seventy square feet of aggregate area.
- Maximum number of signs3 signs
Signs shall conform to applicable general provisions of Chapter 18.106, shall be attached to a building, limited to not more than three signs of not more than seventy square feet of aggregate area.
From the ordinance
The B-P business park district is intended to provide for and promote the development of harmonious business park environments for light manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, wholesaling, research, and related compatible uses.