The purpose of the Business Park Overlay District is to provide uniform regulations for a joint City of Cartersville-Bartow County industrial/business park, a portion of which is located in each jurisdiction. To provide consistency for property owners and future uses, and to benefit the public health, safety and welfare, the city and county have adopted identical regulations as follows. The Business Park Overlay District, where applied via amendment to the official zoning maps of the participating government, shall control over inconsistent regulations contained in other ordinances and the Code of Ordinances of each jurisdiction, whether or not the provisions herein are stronger or weaker restrictions.

The boundaries of the portion of the business park located within the city limits of Cartersville are shown in the boundary map included as Exhibit "B" in Article XXV, which is hereby incorporated into and made part of this article by reference.

Minimum lot size: One (1) acre.

Maximum lot coverage (impervious surface limitation): Seventy-five (75) percent.

Required lot width at street right-of-way (internal street): Forty (40) feet (twenty-five (25) feet in cul-de-sac).

Front setback: Forty (40) feet.

Side setback: Fifteen (15) feet.

Rear setback: Twenty (20) feet.

Maximum building height (see below): Seventy-five (75) feet.

Buffers (see below): Fifty (50) feet except as noted.

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Reserved.

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Building height. Building height limitations shall not apply to accessory structures such as water towers, conveyer belts, smokestacks and other incidental and uninhabited parts of industrial uses.

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Buffers. A fifty-foot buffer shall apply adjacent to all land uses, except that no buffers shall be required from industrial to industrial. Further, there shall be a two hundred-foot buffer required where shown on the overlay district map adjacent to existing residential uses as of the date of adoption of the overlay district. When any of the existing residential uses are rezoned to a nonresidential zoning classification, the buffer adjacent to that property shall be reduced to fifty (50) feet, unless it is a similar zoning classification, in which case the buffer requirement shall not apply. Buffers shall be undisturbed, except that, if the buffer is adjacent to a residential use, and is insufficiently dense to be opaque to vision year-round, the zoning administrator may require that the buffer shall be planted with sufficient vegetation so that it is opaque year-round, to a depth of at least twenty-five (25) feet. Buffers may be used for perpendicular crossing by access roads and utilities, but not for lateral roads or parking. Buffers may be used for detention ponds, provided that vegetative screening remains or is planted between the pond and the property line. The zoning administrator shall approve buffer plans and plantings.

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Setbacks shall be measured from the property or lot line. As setback exceptions, the following may intrude into the setback zone: unsupported roof overhangs, steps, walkways and access roads, landscaping and irrigation systems, planters, architectural fences and walls not exceeding forty-two (42) inches, and underground utilities and sewers.

(Ord. No. 01-23, § 1, 2-2-23; Ord. No. 34-23, § 1, 7-6-23)

The following uses are permitted in the Business Park Overlay District. Any use not specifically listed is prohibited, except as permitted by section 14.5.

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Business offices.

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Call center.

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Data center.

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Distribution facilities.

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Education and training facilities.

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Light industrial uses which may include manufacturing, fabricating, procession or assembling of product and equipment which are housed within a building.

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Manufactured or portable building manufacturers.

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Manufacturing, except explosives or fireworks.

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Outdoor storage (as an accessory use).

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Public utility facilities.

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Radio, TV and other communication towers.

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Research and development facilities.

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Research laboratories and biomedical laboratories.

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Retail or services uses.

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Telecommunication structures.

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Warehousing.

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Wholesale trade and distribution.

Any industrial use not listed above, and otherwise permitted either as a permitted or conditional use in the Bartow County General Industrial District or the Bartow County Heavy Industrial District (for Bartow County's portion of the district) or permitted either as a permitted or conditional use in the City of Cartersville H-I district at Chapter 26, section 10.2.2.A.2. of the City of Cartersville Zoning Ordinance (for Cartersville's portion of the district), may be permitted in the respective jurisdiction, upon grant of a conditional use permit. The applicant shall submit an application for a conditional use subject to the standards, regulations and criteria contained in the applicable underlying zoning ordinance and the application shall proceed as a conditional use permit pursuant to the applicable underlying zoning ordinance. The local government considering the permit application shall be empowered to impose conditions on the approval to ameliorate any negative impacts of the proposed use, including restrictions on noise, vibration, light or glare, hours of operation, additional buffering and any other appropriate condition.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, any uses listed herein shall be prohibited and may not be approved for the district, even as a conditional use.

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Airports and landing fields;

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Coal burning facilities;

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Paper and pulp manufacturers;

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Explosives, including fire works manufacture or storage in bulk quantities;

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Garbage, offal, dead animal reduction or dumping;

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Mining and related activity;

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Quarrying and related activity;

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Stock yards, commercial;

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Conversion of energy by nuclear fusion or fission;

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Blasting.

All developments shall comply with the following minimum landscape requirements:

Border landscaping—Building: Five (5) feet wide (none between building and truck courts).

Border landscaping—Vehicular use area: Five (5) feet wide.

Trees along vehicular use area: One (1) per seventy-five (75) feet.

Border landscaping—Road ROW: One (1) per thirty (30) feet, ten (10) feet wide.

Parking lot landscaping islands: One hundred sixty (160) square feet, required at end of each row; i.e., three hundred twenty (320) square feet for double row.

Parking lot landscaping—Trees: One (1) tree per island.

Parking lot landscaping—Spaces: One (1) island per twelve (12) spaces.

New plant materials—Trees: Eight (8) feet in height at planting, fifteen (15) feet at maturity.

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Parking lot terminal island design. Each single and double row of parking spaces shall be terminated by landscaped islands, no less than nine (9) feet in width and no less than fifteen (15) feet in length and shall include at least one (1) tree having no branches maintained below five (5) feet in height for visibility. The remainder of the island shall be adequately landscaped with shrubs and ground cover with a height of no more than three (3) feet at maturity. Islands may contain no curbs, elevated curbs or depressed curbs.

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Parking lot interior island design. One (1) tree required per island having no branches maintained below five (5) feet in height for visibility. The remainder of the island shall be adequately landscaped with shrubs and ground cover with a height of no more than three (3) feet at maturity. Islands may contain no curbs, elevated curbs, or depressed curbs.

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New plant materials.

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Trees. A tree shall attain an average crown spread over fifteen (15) feet at maturity. Trees having an average crown spread of less than fifteen (15) feet may be substituted by grouping the same so as to create the equivalent of a fifteen-foot crown spread. All trees shall be of a species which can be maintained with a minimum of five (5) feet of trunk height. New trees shall have a minimum of two and one-half (2.5) inches diameter at breast height (DBH) measured four and one-half (4.5) feet above ground and shall be a minimum of eight (8) feet in overall height immediately after planting.

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Shrubs. Shrubs shall be a minimum of one (1) foot in height when measured at the time of planting.

(Ord. No. 02-23, § 1, 2-2-23)

Streets in this overlay district shall be paved to minimum twenty-eight-foot width, with a section of eight-inch GAB, three-inch binder and one and one-half-inch surface course.

Editor's note— Section 14.9, formerly entitled "Signs", was deleted by Ord. No. 01-13, § 15, adopted Jan. 3, 2013.