Division III. - Rural Industrial (RI)


17.04.401 - Purpose.

The rural industrial (RI) district provides for isolated areas of primarily existing industrial type uses.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.402 - Uses permitted.

(a)

Uses. Manufacturing, warehousing, truck yards, contractor yards.

(b)

Accessory Uses. Retail space not to exceed ten percent of the floor area.

(c)

Special Permit Required Uses. Accessory air transportation.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.403 - Lot requirements.

(a)

Density and Lot Size. Dependent on subject property location.

(b)

Lot Width and Depth. Designate limited and safe access(es) to roads.

(c)

Front Yard Setback. Fifteen feet.

(d)

Side and Rear Yard Setbacks. The side setback shall be twenty feet and the rear setback shall be twenty feet. At minimum, buffer plantings shall be in the first five feet of this setback.

(e)

The setback requirements of this section may be waived to the extent necessary to provide for direct and unobstructed access to an adjacent transportation facility such as a railroad or airport.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.404 - Building regulations.

(a)

Floor Area Ratio. One is to five in rural areas or one is to three in RAC, except for fire stations.

(b)

Size. Seven thousand five hundred sq. ft. maximum or reviewed through special use permit.

(c)

Height. No maximum height for incineration facilities, boilers, electrical or generating plants, or industrial facilities on lands zoned as industrial areas.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.405 - Signs.

One monument sign, ten-foot height and one hundred forty-square foot size limit; one wall sign that faces towards street or public access, forty-square foot size limit, and no more than ten percent of wall area. Temporary signs permitted by section 17.05.025 are allowed. Signs prohibited by section 17.03.203 are not allowed.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

(Ord. No. 134-08, 12-16-2008)

17.04.406 - Off-street parking.

Off-street parking (stall number and arrangement) shall be provided according with the provisions of the Mason County parking standards.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).

17.04.407 - Special provisions.

New development shall be constructed and operated to meet the following performance standards:

(1)

Noise shall be controlled to comply with Chapter 9.36 Mason County Code;

(2)

Odor shall be controlled to comply with Olympic Air Pollution Control Authority Reg. 1, Section 9.11;

(3)

Light and glare shall be controlled such that:

(A)

No light or combination of lights that cast light upon a public street or nonresidentially zoned property shall exceed one foot-candle meter reading as measured at the edge of roadway or property line,

(B)

No light or combination of lights that cast light upon a residentially zoned property shall exceed 0.4 foot-candle meter reading as measured at the residential property line,

(C)

Direct or sky-reflected glare, whether from floodlights or from high-temperature processes, such as combustion or welding, shall not be directed into any adjoining property,

(D)

No flickering or flashing lights shall be allowed except to the extent necessary to meet state or federal safety requirements;

(4)

No vibration shall be permitted which is discernible beyond the property line to the human sense of feeling for three minutes or more duration in any one hour, nor any vibration producing an acceleration of more than 0.1 g, or which results in any combination of amplitudes and frequencies beyond the "safe" range of Table 7, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Bulletin "Quarry Blasting" on any structure;

(5)

Local traffic impact shall be limited to no more than five percent of the existing traffic, except as provided that by special use permit. Criteria for approval shall include limits on traffic and hours of operation;

(6)

Outside storage of materials shall be screened and not visible from adjacent properties by the use of landscaping, berming and/or fencing;

(7)

The following additional information is required for special use permit requests to aid in analyzing the request, preparing necessary conditions, and providing consistency with dimensional and performance standards in these and other relevant county regulations, including, but not limited to: the location and size of lot(s); site plan with areas of proposed use; access to state and county roads; land uses on adjacent properties and potential impacts to those uses by the proposal; provision of parking areas and stormwater facilities; hours of operations; anticipated sources of noise, glare, or odors from proposed use(s); grading proposed; stormwater and erosion control plans; sanitation and support services provided; and traffic studies from activities proposed.

Where development existed as of the date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, it shall not meet the above performance standards, but that development and the adjoining lands shall continue to meet buffer yard standards as provided in Section 17.03.036.

(Ord. 108-05 Attach. B (part), 2005).