Chapter 18, § 18.40
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Administrative, executive, financial and other professional offices
- Bookbinding, lithography, editorial, designing, printing and publishing facilities
- Manufacturing, assembly, printing or packaging of products from previously prepared materials (excluding saw and planing mills, steel or iron works, rolling mills, and primary production from raw materials)
- Wholesale storage and distribution of foods and materials, including warehouses, moving services, delivery services (excluding storage of flammables, explosives, or materials creating dust, odors or fumes)
- Research and development laboratories and institutes
- Nonretail dry cleaning plants and laundries
- Television and radio stations
- Fruit and vegetable freezing, processing and packing operations (excluding canneries)
- Manufacturing of bakery goods, candy and similar products (excluding fish or meat products, rendering of fats or oils, or products creating dust, fumes or obnoxious odors)
- Manufacturing of electrical and electronic instruments and devices
- Small animal hospitals (activities confined within building)
- Public uses and utilities (excluding recreation facilities, disposal sites, sewage treatment and power plants)
- Medical and dental laboratories
- Greenhouses
- Cabinet shops
- Retail and wholesale sales incidental to allowed uses
- Mini-storage
- Day care facilities and other employment center services
- Bottling works, distilleries, breweries
- Other similar light manufacturing or related industrial uses as determined by the director of community development
Conditional / special use4
- Retail establishments serving surrounding industrial uses (e.g., restaurants, snack bars)
- Airstrips and heliports
- Manufacturing of cosmetics or pharmaceuticals
- Uses otherwise allowed that involve an outdoor component (e.g., storage, assembly, play areas)
Prohibited10
- Canneries
- Saw and planing mills
- Steel or iron works
- Rolling mills
- Primary production of commodities from raw materials
- Storage of flammables, explosives, or materials creating dust, odors or fumes
- Production of fish or meat products
- Rendering of fats or oils
- Products whose manufacture creates dust, fumes or obnoxious odors
- Recreation facilities, disposal sites, sewage treatment and power plants (as public uses)
Extracted standards
21 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Building colors
Building colors employed shall be neutral or "earth tone" and shall be of a nonglare substance.
- Earth-tone colors for mini-storage
Neutral or "earth-tone" colors shall be employed.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for mini-storage6 ft
Each lot line shall have a landscape screen, stone or masonry wall, or opaque fence at least six feet in height.
Other
- Design review required
All development shall be subject to design review according to the provisions of this title.
- Double-faced accessway width for mini-storage26 ft
In the case of the double-faced units, interior accessways shall be twenty-six feet.
- All uses must be within enclosed building
Except as otherwise approved by use permit, all uses must be conducted entirely within an enclosed building.
- Interior accessways paved for mini-storage
All interior accessways shall be paved.
- Loading areas paved
All loading areas shall be paved.
- Loading space requirement
There shall be one off-street loading space for each five thousand square feet or remainder portions thereof, of building area, except for buildings greater than ten thousand square feet, two spaces shall be provided and one space for every thirty-five thousand square feet thereafter.
- Minimum loading space size
The minimum loading space size shall be twelve feet by twenty-two feet.
- Tree per parking 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.
- Perimeter accessway width for mini-storage26 ft
Accessways along the perimeter of the units shall be twenty-six feet in width.
- Additional landscaping near public roads
Additional landscaping may be required in areas abutting public roads on a case-by-case basis.
- Landscaped strip in setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
Any off-street parking areas provided in a required front or side yard setback shall be separated from streets and adjacent property by a five-foot minimum landscaped strip.
- Single access point for mini-storage
Ingress or egress shall be at one point only at the front of the property.
- Single-faced accessway width for mini-storage20 ft
In the case of single-faced units, interior accessways shall be twenty feet.
- Landscaping in yards
Landscaping shall be established and maintained by the property owner within the required front yard, side yards and rear yard. Landscaping shall be either live or inert.
Parking
The minimum parking space size shall be nine feet by eighteen feet.
- No parking in required yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
The required yard setback shall not be used for parking.
- Parking areas paved
All parking areas shall be paved.
- Parking spaces per employees
Parking required shall be two off-street spaces for every three employees on the largest shift
From the ordinance
The M-L district is designed to provide an environment for aggregation of compatible, non-nuisance type industrial uses
Parking requirements
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