A. Provide for the development of areas in which certain types of light 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 areas in the Hawks Prairie Planning Area.

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

D. Protect adjacent areas from adverse or damaging impact of any kind emanating or resulting from activities in the light industrial areas.

E. Provide criteria for the location and standards for the development of said areas.

F. Prohibit uses which are not primarily conducted indoors, involve hazardous materials, or involve truck terminals or cross dock facilities where materials are unloaded from an incoming semi-trailer truck and loaded directly into outbound trucks with no storage in between 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.

G. 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 and surrounding zone districts. Consequently, the site activities and structures should be regulated within this zone including a design review element.

H. Use design review to ensure that development is of a scale and look that is complementary to the rest of the zone and the surrounding area.

I. Meet Lacey’s goals for diversification of its industrial base and expansion of its employment base. (Ord. 1539 §87, 2019; Ord. 1348 §1, 2010; Ord. 1264 §8, 2006; Ord. 758 §1 (part), 1985).

A. Permitted Uses. Uses allowed within this zone are limited to those necessary for a healthy and vibrant employment zone that promote manufacturing activity and job generation. A use must meet the intent of the zone as stated in LMC 16.40.010 to be permitted. Types of uses that may be permitted in the light industrial district, subject to satisfying the intent of the zone, may include:

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

C. Conditional Uses Permitted.

D. On-Site Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facilities as an Accessory Use. On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage facilities may be permitted 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 §88, 2019; Ord. 1395 §6, 2012; Ord. 1368 §36, 2011; Ord. 1348 §2, 2010; Ord. 1264 §9, 2006; Ord. 1220 §42, 2004; Ord. 1066 §2, 1997; Ord. 835 §10, 1988; Ord. 758 §1 (part), 1985).

A. Uses other than those identified or described in LMC 16.40.020 are prohibited, including but not limited to 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 which would exceed the acceptable limits established by competent and recognized public and quasi-public agencies.

B. Examples of prohibited uses are:

A. Lot area, twenty thousand square feet.

B. Lot width, one hundred feet.

C. Side yard setback, fifteen feet.

D. Rear yard setback, twenty-five feet.

E. Front yard setback, twenty feet.

F. Buildings of more than two hundred thousand square feet shall meet the requirements of LMC 16.40.052.

G. Wherever there are multiple buildings on the same lot, a minimum separation distance, meeting the requirements of LMC 14.23.083, shall be maintained between such buildings.

H. When adjacent to a residential zoned property (LD, MD, or HD), or an open space institutional zoned property (OSI), the minimum yard setback adjacent to the residential or open space institutional zone shall be fifty feet.

I. 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 and/or loading or unloading areas facing the residential zone. (Ord. 1612 §7, 2022; Ord. 1480 §24, 2015; Ord. 1348 §4, 2010; Ord. 1264 §11, 2006; Ord. 758 §1 (part), 1985).

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

B. The master plan shall provide for a multiple-building complex consisting of three or more buildings.

C. Truck access to the site shall be from a city of Lacey street. Methods to discourage and/or restrict truck traffic from traveling through residential areas shall be incorporated into the site design and/or project approval. Methods to restrict truck access may include, but are not 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.

D. When adjacent to a residential zone, a one-hundred-foot natural treed buffer tract shall be established meeting the city of Lacey tree tract standards established in LMC 14.32.064 and 14.32.065 at the time of building construction.

E. Buildings shall be consistent with the city of Lacey industrial design review standards contained in LMC 14.23.083.

F. Construction pads for buildings with a footprint greater than two hundred thousand square feet shall be limited to seventy-five percent of the buildable area of the site in order to provide a variety of building sizes throughout a multiple-building complex.

G. When a site is adjacent to a residential zone, the applicant shall be encouraged to meet with the adjacent homeowners’ association or neighborhood group to provide project and contact information to the residents. (Ord. 1480 §25, 2015; Ord. 1397 §1, 2012; Ord. 1380 §1, 2012; Ord. 1348 §5, 2010).

A. Development coverage, seventy percent of site;

B. Maximum building coverage, forty percent. (Ord. 1024 §44, 1995; Ord. 758 §1 (part), 1985).

A. All applicable requirements of Chapter 16.80 LMC shall be satisfied.

B. Adjacent Areas. Parcels or lots which share a common boundary with properties in a residential or open space/institutional district shall be required to landscape the rear 35 feet of the required setback area.

The exterior edge(s) of the common boundaries shall be densely planted with site screening vegetation having a minimum height of four feet at the time of planting. The landscaping plan shall provide a mix of vegetative species that at maturity will provide an effective height, canopy and buffer between the two different land uses. Requirements of LMC 16.80.050(B) for a type one landscaping shall be satisfied. (Ord. 1264 §13, 2006; Ord. 1098 §16(A), 1999).

A. Refuse container screening shall be required and be native and drought tolerant landscaping or material and design compatible with the overall architectural theme of the associated structure. Screening shall be at least as high as the refuse container, and shall in no case be less than six feet high.

B. No refuse container shall be permitted between a street and the front of a building.

C. Refuse collection areas shall be designed to contain all refuse generated on site and deposited between collections. Deposited refuse shall not be visible from outside the refuse enclosure. (Ord. 1496 §81, 2016; Ord. 1098 §16(B), 1999).