Centralia City Zoning Code

Permit, in limited and appropriate areas, a variety of industrial uses or activities which would be unacceptable if located in other areas;

Keep the industrial activities within reasonable scale and character of the city;

Protect industrial areas from such other uses as may interfere with the purpose and efficient functioning of the areas;

Protect living areas and other nonindustrial areas from adverse or damaging impact of any kind emanating or resulting from industrial areas;

Provide criteria for location and standards for development of industrial areas.

Permitted as provided in Chapter 20.11 CMC.

Other or Related Uses Permitted.

Conditional uses as provided in Chapter 20.67 CMC.

Similar or related permitted uses, and criteria for determination of similarity or relatedness, are as follows:

Off-site hazardous waste storage and/or treatment facilities are allowed upon obtaining a conditional use permit and after review by the site plan review committee. Such facilities shall be consistent with state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 70.105 RCW, as now existing or hereafter amended or promulgated, whether by state law or the Washington Administrative Code provisions.

Uses which produce clearly offensive or objectionable odors such as animal slaughtering, rendering of animal products, chemical or biochemical processes such as the manufacture of petrochemicals;

No building, structure or premises or portion thereof shall be used for human habitation, permanent, transient or temporary, except as permitted in Chapter 20.11 CMC.

It shall be the responsibility of the operator and/or the proprietor of any permitted use to provide such reasonable evidence and technical data as the enforcing officer may require to demonstrate that the use or activity is or will be in compliance with the environmental performance standards of Chapter 20.57 CMC.

Failure of the enforcing officer to require such information shall not be construed as relieving the operator and/or the proprietor from compliance with the environmental performance standards of this title.

Lot area: no minimum;

Lot width: no minimum;

Side yard setback: as currently required by the building code as adopted by the city of Centralia;

Rear yard setback: as currently required by the building code as adopted by the city of Centralia;

Front yard setback: twenty feet;

Relationship to adjacent parcels in the same classification: Setbacks between buildings in separate ownership are exempt from the side and rear setback requirements cited in this section, but shall comply with the side and rear setback requirements of the fire and building codes;

Corner yard setback: fifteen feet.

Height of Buildings. Height limits shall be imposed if necessary, to prevent detrimental effects on the surrounding properties.