A.

Where permitted, Industrial Parks shall comply with the following requirements:

1.

An Industrial Park shall, for the purpose of this Ordinance, include all land ten (10) acres or more in size, subdivided and platted into two (2) or more parcels and used or intended to be used for predominately industrial or commercial purposes of an industrial character.

2.

A site development plan shall be required for each Industrial Park which provides for the following:

a.

An access to an Industrial Park shall be by way of a dedicated street.

b.

All streets or roadways within an Industrial Park shall have a minimum right-of-way width of seventy feet (70'), and shall conform to the City of Leeds standards for commercial streets or as otherwise approved by the Zoning Board of Adjustment.

c.

All off-street parking and loading shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Article IX.

d.

The outdoor storage in an Industrial Park shall be permitted only when accessory to a permitted principal use and only when storage areas are suitably screened by either landscaping or fences or walls and. The Zoning Board of Adjustment shall approve plans before a building permit shall be issued for their construction.

e.

A buffer area, not less than fifty feet (50') in width, shall be provided along all the property lines of an Industrial Park which abuts any residential zone district.

f.

A cul-de-sac street shall not be permitted in Industrial Parks; however, dead-end street are permitted, when not more than five hundred feet (500') in length, as measured from the terminal point of the dead-end street to the closest intersection. Such a terminal point is to be provided with a paved vehicle turnaround area having a minimum right-of-way radius of seventy feet (70').

g.

All street lighting shall be provided and maintained by property owners. The City of Leeds shall not install or maintain street lights within industrial parks

h.

The vehicular approach to an Industrial Park site from a public street or highway shall have a minimum radius, so designed, such that uncontrolled left-hand turns from the street or highway shall be eliminated or reduced either by a frontage roadway or other suitable means deemed adequate by the Zoning Board of Adjustment and the Leeds Street Department Superintendent.

i.

A traffic study shall be conducted, by persons qualified in this field for the purpose of determining points or ingress and egress, speed limits acceleration and deceleration, etc., and be provided to the City Engineer for concurrence.

j.

Where points of ingress and egress to Industrial Parks from public streets or highways, having speed limits in excess of thirty (30) miles per hour, are located, there shall be provided, on a public thoroughfare, acceleration and deceleration lanes, the length of which shall be determined by the following:

Speed (Miles Per Hour) 30 40 50 55

Distance in Feet 100 200 300 350

k.

A report of subsurface soil conditions shall be provided to the City Engineer, Superintendent of Streets and Zoning Board of Adjustment by an Alabama Registered Professional Engineer.

l.

A preliminary plan or engineering feasibility report, prepared by an Alabama Registered Professional Engineer, shall be submitted to the City Engineer and the Zoning Board of Adjustment. This plan/report shall provide for the site grading, storm drainage, sanitary sewerage and water supply.

m.

A copy of any Deed Restrictions shall be provided to the Planning Commission.

(Ord. No. 2015-06-06, 6-15-2015)