This district provides for the establishment of heavier industrial uses essential to a balanced economic base in the county, with a minimum of conflict between industry and other land uses.

(Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346)(part): Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 376) § 2.14:1, 1978).

The following uses and associated buildings/improvements are permitted outright unless listed as conditional uses:

1.

Manufacturing, fabrication, recycling, storage, distribution, marketing, wholesale/retail sale, or repair of products and other items;

2.

Transportation-oriented facilities of all types;

3.

Rock, sand, and gravel extraction and processing;

4.

Public facilities and associated activities including, but not limited to utilities and cogeneration, public works, parks;

5.

Storage facilities for businesses such as construction companies, landscape companies, distribution/warehouse, service oriented businesses;

6.

Other uses determined by the planning director to be similar to the above uses. (Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) §32 (part), 1996; Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346) (part) Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, pages 376 and 377) §2.14:2, 1978).

(Ord. O101006, 10-10-06)

The following uses may be permitted in a general industrial district only when the location of such use has been approved by the board of adjustment after public hearing and examination of the location:

1.

Acid manufacture;

2.

Blast furnace;

3.

Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture;

4.

Coke ovens;

5.

Dump, rubbish, slag or sawdust;

6.

Fat rendering;

7.

Explosives, manufacture or storage;

8.

Fertilizer manufacture;

9.

Garbage, offal, or dead animal reduction or dumping;

10.

Gas manufacture, or storage (artificial, natural, industrial liquified or compressed gases);

11.

Junk yards, including processing, storage, sales;

12.

Ore reduction;

13.

Pulp and paper manufacture;

14.

Petroleum refining, petroleum gasoline and other inflammable liquid storage;

15.

Salvaging (including processing and storage) of metal, paper, cloth, etc.;

16.

Slaughter of animals or meat packing;

17.

Smelting of copper, iron, lead, tin or zinc, and other metallic ores;

18.

Steel manufacture;

19.

Stock yards or feeding pens;

20.

Tannery or the curing or storage of raw hides;

21.

Wrecking of automobiles and equipment of all kinds;

22.

Offsite hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities, provided that such facilities meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 70.105 RCW;

23.

Stand-alone energy production from biomass facilities;

24.

Any other uses judged by the board of adjustment to be consistent with the purposes and intent of this chapter and to be no more detrimental to the adjacent properties than, and of the same type and character as, the above listed uses. (Ord. 0031196 (Vol. 60, page 190) §§ 35 (part), 36, 1996; Ord. 110788 (Vol. 50, page 59) § 7, 1988: Res. Pages 378 and 379) § 2.14:13, 1978).

(Ord. O101006, 10-10-06)

A.

Accessory uses may be permitted in a general industrial district which are customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use.

B.

On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities as an accessory use to any activity generating hazardous waste and lawfully allowed in this zone; provided, that such facilities meet the state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of RCW 70.105.210.

(Ord. 110788 (Vol. 50, page 59) § 8, 1988: Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346)(part): Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 379) § 2.14:4, 1978).

Outdoor storage in a general industrial district must be maintained in an orderly manner at all times. Outdoor storage in this district, such as junkyards, auto wrecking and scrap metal storage is permitted under the following conditions:

A.

No wrecked autos or scrap material may be piled higher than the top of the fence or screening material; such screening material to be a seven-foot sight-obscuring fence, or evergreen planting seven-feet high at maturity which shall completely enclose said use.

B.

Such storage shall be not closer than one hundred feet from any public thoroughfare and not closer than three hundred feet from any residential district.

C.

Storage of animal or vegetable wastes which would attract insects or otherwise create a health hazard are prohibited.

(Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346)(part): Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 379) § 2.14:5, 1978).

Density provisions for a general industrial district are as follows:

A.

Maximum Lot Coverage. None.

B.

Maximum Height. None.

C.

Minimum Front Yard: No front yards are required except where such property flanks or is opposite a residential zone in which case the setbacks of the district shall be observed.

D.

Minimum Side Yard. No side yards are required except where such property flanks or is opposite to a residential zone in which case the setbacks of the district shall be observed.

E.

Minimum Rear Yard. No rear yards are required except where such property flanks or is opposite a residential zone in which case the setbacks of the district shall be observed.

F.

Minimum Lot Size. There is no minimum lot size if on a public sewer system; otherwise, as determined by the health officer.

(Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346)(part): Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 380) § 2.14:6, 1978).

No building, structure, premises, or portions thereof established after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title, shall be used for human habitation, except as quarters for a caretaker, guard or other persons whose permanent residency on the premises is required for operational safety or protective purposes.

(Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346)(part): Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 380) § 2.14:7, 1978).

For parking requirements in a general industrial district, see Section 19.56.020.

(Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346)(part): Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 380) § 2.14:8, 1978).

In a general industrial district the following signs are permitted:

A.

Advertising signs and outdoor advertising structures not exceeding three hundred square feet in area and not exceeding thirty-five feet in height;

B.

Signs may be illuminated but shall not be of a flashing or moving type;

C.

See also Section 19.56.050.

(Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346)(part): Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 380) § 2.14:9, 1978).

Editor's note— Ord. No. O060215, § 2(Exh. A), adopted June 2, 2015, repealed § 19.32.100, which pertained to site plan review and derived from Res. 13678 (Vol. 29, page 346) (part); Ord. 62678 (Vol. 29, page 380), § 2.14:10, adopted in 1978; and Res. 9881 (Vol. 34, page 600) (part), adopted in 1981.