A. Provide for the development of areas in which certain types of industrial activities may be located to promote job generation consistent with the Economic Development Element of the Lacey Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

B. Implement the policies of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan for light industrial/commercial areas in the Hawks Prairie Planning Area.

C. Mandate that an essential consideration in review of development in the light industrial/commercial zone will be the overall impact to road infrastructure and the impact on the accommodation of other uses on the city road network. Particular attention must be paid to impacts that could discourage retail commercial development because of road capacity and level of service at key intersections.

D. Prohibit uses which are not primarily conducted indoors, or involve hazardous materials, or truck terminals or cross dock facilities and result in significant heavy truck traffic. These uses are generally considered heavy industrial uses under this title and are not appropriate for this designation.

E. Recognize that an essential aspect of this zone is the need to create and maintain a quality of development that attracts further investment in the light industrial/commercial zoning district and surrounding zoning districts. Consequently, the site activities and structures should be regulated within this zone including a design review element.

F. Permit in the same areas such commercial uses as may be compatible with the industrial activities.

G. Protect light industrial/commercial areas from other uses which may interfere with the purpose and efficient functioning of said areas.

H. Protect living areas from adverse or damaging impact of any kind emanating or resulting from activities in the light industrial/commercial areas.

I. Provide criteria for the location and standards for the development of said areas. (Ord. 1264 §3, 2006; Ord. 583 §2.23(A), 1980).

A. The uses allowed in this district are limited to those necessary for a healthy and vibrant employment zone that promote manufacturing job generation or commercial development and occupying a building with a footprint no larger than a total of two hundred thousand square feet in size. A use must meet the intent of the zone as stated in LMC 16.39.010 and be described in the following portions of this subsection in order to be permitted. Types of uses permitted in the light industrial/commercial district subject to satisfying the intent of the zone may include:

B. General commercial uses that are compatible with adjacent uses in this zone and sometimes considered heavier commercial uses that may not be compatible with uses in other zones including:

C. Similar, related or compatible uses permitted, and criteria for determination of similarity, relatedness or compatibility, include:

D. Conditional Uses Permitted: Conditional uses may be considered as provided for in Chapter 16.66 LMC, provided all applicable standards necessary to mitigate identified impacts are satisfied.

E. 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. 1539 §86, 2019; Ord. 1395 §5, 2012; Ord. 1368 §35, 2011; Ord. 1264 §4, 2006; Ord. 1220 §40, 2004; Ord. 1192 §145, 2002; Ord. 835 §9, 1988; Ord. 583 §2.23(B)(1-3), 1980).

A. All buildings over two hundred thousand square feet in size except in accordance with the requirements of LMC 16.39.042.

B. All uses or activities which would require extraordinary equipment, devices or technology for the control of odors, dust, fumes, smoke, noise or other wastes and/or by-products which, if uncontrolled, would contaminate the environment to a degree unacceptable by contemporary community standards; or which would exceed the acceptable limits established by competent and recognized public and quasi-public agencies for the protection of industrial and/or environmental health.

C. Examples of prohibited uses are:

A. The site shall consist of a parcel or contiguous parcels totaling a minimum of forty acres.

B. Existing buildings retained within a six-month, one-year or five-year zone of a wellhead protection area shall be transferred from septic systems to public sewers within twenty-four months after approval of the first building permit unless otherwise provided for by a development agreement.

C. To reduce the displacement of existing small and medium sized businesses the applicant shall enter into a development agreement that identifies an area consisting of no less than five contiguous acres where the existing buildings would be initially retained until a later redevelopment phase of the project subject to the following standards:

D. When uses identified in LMC 16.39.020(A) will be adjacent to a residential zoned property (LD, MD or HD), or an open space institutional zoned property (OSI), the minimum yard setback between the residential or open space institutional zone shall be fifty feet and include a twenty-foot Type I landscaping buffer as defined in LMC 16.80.050(B). Provided, however, that these uses are separated from a residential or open space institutional zone by commercial development, the required buffer shall be fifteen feet and include at least an eight-foot Type II landscaping buffer as defined in LMC 16.80.050(B).

E. Truck bay doors and/or loading or unloading areas shall not face residential zoned property (LD, MD or HD), if within two hundred fifty feet of said zones, unless separated by the placement of a building without bay doors or landscape or other screening that reduces visual and noise impacts.

F. When adjacent to a residential zoned property (LD, MD or HD), a noise study shall be performed to demonstrate that the proposed use can comply with the maximum noise limits established by LMC 16.57.030 and Chapter 173-60 WAC.

G. Site design shall incorporate a mix of landscaping, berms, fencing, building setbacks, and/or other site design elements to establish internal transitions between light industrial and commercial uses within the master site plan which reduce visual and noise impacts created by truck movements, loading and unloading.

H. Truck access and circulation shall be designed to reduce or restrict the travel of truck traffic through residential areas. Such measures may include, but not be limited to, median controls, signage, driveway design, and internal circulation. All methods are subject to approval by the city of Lacey community development and public works departments.

I. New commercial and industrial buildings shall be consistent with the applicable city of Lacey design review standards found in LMC 14.23.082 for commercial buildings and LMC 14.23.083 for industrial buildings.

J. When a site is adjacent to a residential zone, the applicant shall hold a neighborhood meeting to provide information on the proposed development. Notice of the meeting shall be sent by mail to all property owners within three hundred feet, as well as to adjacent homeowners’ associations or neighborhood groups within the radius. (Ord. 1576 §2, 2021).

A. Lot area, ten thousand square feet.

B. Lot width, one hundred feet.

C. Side yard setback, fifteen feet unless the property abuts residentially zoned property, in which case the side yard setback shall be twenty-five feet.

D. Rear yard setback, fifteen feet unless the property abuts residentially zoned property, in which case the rear yard setback shall be twenty-five feet.

E. Front yard setback, fifteen feet. (Ord. 1130 §11, 2000; Ord. 647 §3, 1982; Ord. 618 §8, 1981; Ord. 583 §2.23(C)(2)(a), 1980).

A. Development coverage, eighty percent of site;

B. Height:

C. Floor area, one square foot of floor area per foot of land area. (Ord. 1044 §17, 1996; Ord. 583 §2.23(C)(2)(b), 1980).