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Ordinance 1371ORDINANCE NO. _ 13 7l AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING ORDINANCE, SECTION NOS. 12.13.190, PERMITTED USES (BC)i SECTION 12.13.200, LIMITATIONS ON USES (BC), AND SECTION 12.14.050, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, SUCH AMEND- MENTS TO PERMIT CERTAIN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USES IN COMMUNITY BUSINESS DISTRICTS, UNDER CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS, AND WITH ADDED STANDARDS, PURSUANT TO PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 276. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, Washington pursuant to Planning Commission ResoLution No. 276 called a public hearing and thereat found it to be in the best interests and the public health, safety and wel- fare to amend the Edmonds Zoning Ordinance as set forth below, now, therefore, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The Edmonds City Code, Section 12.13.190, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 12.13.190 Permitted Uses (BC). In a BC zone the following types of uses are permitted as hereinafter provided and allowed by this section= subject to the general provisions and exceptions set forth in this title. A. Any use permitted in an R --or BN zone as regulated therein; B. Retail enterprises dispensing food or commodities on - premises= except trailers or heavy-duty equipment, and which may involve only limited and incidental assembly, repair or fabrication of goods or commodities; C. Business offices, professional offices and clinics, and other related enterprise rendering professional or personal services to the individual or community, including commercial kennels (subject to grant of conditional use permit), and animal hospitals; D. Commercial Schools; E. Hotels, motels and motor hotels, subject to grant of conditional use permit but specifically excluding mobile home or trailer parks; F. Clubs, and recreational facilities; G. Mortuaries, subject to grant of conditional use permit; H. Public utility installation relating directly to local distribution of services, except warehouses and service yards; I. Drive -In businesses; J. Automobile sales, including indoor automotive repairs and commercial garages; K. Distribution centers and accessory storage, including auto freight and household goods, subject to condi- tional use permit grant; L. Dry cleaning and laundry plants provided that the use of cleaning agents shall be limited to non -inflamm- able and nonexplosive fluids; M. Laboratories, subject to conditional use permit grant; N. Printing, publishing and binding establishments; 0. Outdoor advertising structures and signs, limited to 150 square feet of gross area per building, and shall not exceed the building height permitted in the zone classification: -2- 1. Signs and advertising structures that have flashing, blinking, or moving lights must be turned off by 11:30 p.m.; 2. Signs and advertising structures shall advertise exclusively the business conducted, goods sold or services rendered on the premises, and shall not extend over the public way more than three feet; 3. A shopping center in this zoning classification with three or more separate businesses or units may have one additional sign or advertising structure of not exceeding 150 square feet adver- tising the center as a whole and must adhere to the other provisions of this section; 4. Where dimensional and other regulations contained herein are in conflict with Ordinance 973 Uniform Sign Coder as amended,, the more stringent dimen- sion shall apply. P. Fabrication and sale of metal, wood, plastic, and sim- ilar products of light industry, subject to Conditional Use Permit grant, provided that there shall be no out- side storage of any materials." Section 2. The Edmonds City Code, Section 12.13.200, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 12-13.200 Limitations on Uses (BC). Those permit- ted uses locating in a BC zone shall be subject to the fol- lowing further conditions and limitations; -3- A. All uses, except public utility installations and outdoor advertising structures, shall conform to the general provisions and exceptions concerning off- street parking and loading area standards of number, area, surface, screening, and maintenance as required by Chapter 12.14 of this Code; B. All uses shall be conducted wholly within an entirely enclosed building except; 1. Gas stations and Drive -In businesses, 2. Public utility installations, 3. Parking and loading areas: 4. Outdoor advertising structures, 5. Lumber yards, 6. Plant nurseries. C. Pump islands of gas stations shall not be closer than 15 feet to any street property line or public way, nor shall any gasoline service station signs extend over the property line, street property line or public way; D. Any on -premises repairing shall be ­limited to the types of merchandise sold at retail on the premises and shall be of a custom and incidental nature where no more than 30 percent of the total floor area of the enterprise shall be devoted to repair operations, except that the limitations of this paragraph shall not apply to television, radio, shoe, small household appliance repair service, or automotive repair; F. Establishments dealing in any manner with alcholic beverages or establishments serving food outside of -4- buildings, or providing recreation for commercial pur- poses (except commercial swimming pools) shall locate no closer than 500 feet from the exterior property boundary line of any school grounds, public park, playground or church; F. Buildings or structures, in whole or in part, used to house animals incident to animal hospitals or commer- cial kennels, shall be sound -proofed; the animal runs shall be surfaced with a minimum of 1 1/2 inches of concrete or other impervious material; drainage must be away from adjoining properties; there shall be no incineration of refuse or dead animals; G. All operations conducted on the premises shall not constitute a nuisance by reason of smoke, fumest odor, steam, gases, vibrations, noiset hazards or other causes, beyond the property boundary lines and shall comply with the provisions of section 12.14.050 of this Code; H. All sites having a common boundary line with an'RS' classified property shall have erected and maintained a view -obscuring walls fence or coniferous hedge not less than five feet, nor more than six feet in height for screening purposes and controlling access. Where the wall of a building is on such common property line, no separate wall or fence need be installed along that portion of the boundary occupied by the building. Public utility installations need only fence and screen, with appropriate materials such as base plantings of -5- coniferous shrubs or trees and climbing coniferous plant materials on the fences to minimize the indus- trial character of such installation with the area surrounding the fenced and screened enclosure land- scaped and planted to create a park -like atmosphere. Section 3. The Edmonds City Code, Section 12.14.050, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 12-14.050 General Requirements. Performance Standards. Any dissemination incident to a permitted use shall comply with the standards established in this Section. A. The noise emanating from a premise used for industrial activities shall be muffled so as to not become objec- tionable due to intermittent beat, frequency or shrill- ness, and where a use adjoins a residential district, the noise loudness measured at the boundary line shall not exceed 40 decibels between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and 60 decibels at other hours; B. Industrial and exterior lighting shall not be used in such a manner that produces glare on public high- ways and neighboring property. Arc welding, acety- lene torch cutting or similar processes shall be per- formed so as not to be seen from any point beyond the outside of the property; C. In terms of fire and safety hazardsi the storage and handling of inflammable liquids, liquified petroleum, gases and explosives shall comply with rules and regu- lations falling under the jurisdiction of the City Fire Chief, the laws of the State and other local ordinances; D. Provisions must be made for necessary shielding or other preventive measures against interferences occasioned by mechanical, electrical, electronic and nuclear equip- ment, uses, or processes with electrical apparatus in nearby buildings or land uses; E. The emission of obnoxious odors of any kind shall not be permitted nor the emission of any toxic or corrosive fumes or gases. Dust created by an industrial operation shall not be exhausted or wasted directly into the atmos- phere; F. The emission of smoke or particulate matter of a density equal to or greater than number 3 on the Ringleman Chart as currently published and used by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, is prohibited at all times; G. H I- Dust and other types of air pollution borne by the wind from such sources as storage areas and roads, shall be minimized by landscaping, paving, oiling or other acceptable means. Emission of particu- late matter in excess of 0.2 grain per cubic foot of conveying gas or air measured at any property linez is prohibited. Smoke emission rates. The rate of emission of partic- ulate matter from all sources on any property shall not exceed a net weight of one pound per acre of property during any one hour; Liquid and solid wastes, storage of animal or vege- table waste which attract insects or rodents or other- wise create a health hazard shall be prohibited. No -7- waste products shall be exposed to view from eye level from any property line; I. Open storage. All storage shall be located within an area not closer than 20 feet from the street right-of-way line and shall be enclosed with a heavy wire fence or of a similar type, with the top of said fence not to be less than six feet above the adjoining street level, or by an attractive hedge or board fence at least six feet high; 1. In case of the open storage of lumber, coal, or other combustible material, a roadway shall be provided, graded, surfaced and maintained from the street to the rear of the storage area to permit free access of fire trucks at any time. J. Vibration caused by industrial operations shall not exceed 0.003 of one inch displacement applied to the frequency range of zero to 5000 cycles per second, as measured at any point off the property on which such operations are conducted. K. In the event the City has doubt that an enterprise is, or can be, conducted within the limits of the above Performance Standards, it may require that the entre- preneur retain, at his expense I , an independent, qual- ified, testing laboratory to make an analysis of the enterprise to determine its compliance with the said standards and to make the results of such analysis available to the City. In the event the analysis -8- discloses existing or impending non-compliancesi the City may require the entrepreneur to institute such remedial measures as will bring his enterprise into compliance. APPROVED: ATTEST: CITY CLERK PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: June 18, 1968 FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: June 18, 1968 PUBLISHED: June 26, 1968 IM