This chapter is established to insure that suitable land will be available for business and industries to provide the necessary support services to Mabton's predominately agricultural economic base and to provide for opportunities to diversify the local economy. It is not the intent to permit residences as a primary use in this district.

(Ord. 635, 1984)

020.1. Uses Permitted Outright.

020.1.1. Any use permitted in the commercial district;

020.1.2. Automobile and truck reconditioning, painting, upholstering, motor rebuilding and body and fender work;

020.1.3. Assembly, fabrication and electroplating of metal products including welding and machine shops;

020.1.4. Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices;

020.1.5. The repair and storage of heavy equipment, including farm equipment;

020.1.6. Brewery, distillery, or winery;

020.1.7. Plants for the processing and storage of agricultural products, such as fruit packing plants, canneries, milk plants, warehouses, fruit and vegetable cold storage plants;

020.1.8. Contractors' equipment storage yard, repair and rental;

020.1.9. Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, food and beverage products;

020.1.10 Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared material, such as bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, metals and glass;

020.1.11. Wholesale businesses, warehouses and storage buildings;

020.1.12. Sheet metal and cabinet shops;

020.1.13. Public utilities;

020.1.14. Electric vehicle charging station.

020.2. Accessory Uses and Structures.

020.2.1. Accessory uses and structures incidental to the above permitted uses, including:

020.2.1.1. On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage; provided, that such facilities meet state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 70.105.210 RCW;

020.2.2. One dwelling unit for each business establishment for the occupancy of the owner, operator or caretaker of the establishment.

020.3. Conditional Uses.

020.3.1. All chemical manufacture, storage and/or packaging, including repackaging;

020.3.2. Asphalt manufacture, mixing or refining;

020.3.3. Automobile dismantling, wrecking or junk yards;*

020.3.4. Animal and livestock auction and sales, except feed lots* and rendering plants which are not permitted;

020.3.5. Recycling operations;

020.3.6. Drop forge industries;

020.3.7. Storage and distribution facilities for bulk fuel, coal and oil;

020.3.8. Fertilizer and pesticide sales and service;

020.3.9. Tire retreading and recapping;

020.3.10. Explosives storage or manufacture;

020.3.11. Railroad facilities of all types;

020.3.12. Smelting, reduction or refining of metallic ores;

020.3.13. All manufacture, storage, packaging, processing and cleaning of radioactive materials;

020.3.14. Other uses consistent with the intent of the industrial district;

020.3.15. Off-site hazardous waste treatment and storage; provided, that such facilities meet state siting criteria adopted pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 70.105.210 RCW.

(Ord. 683 §§2, 3, 1988; Ord. 635(part), 1985)

(Ord. No. 2017-1099, § 5, 6-27-2017)

There are no limitations on lot area and width in the manufacturing district.

(Ord. 635(part), 1984)

Minimum setback requirements in the manufacturing district are as follows:

040.1. Front. There is no front setback except as follows:

040.1.1. On railroad rights-of-way structures shall be within one hundred and fifty feet of the centerline of the right-of-way.

040.1.2. The administrator, upon examining the street improvements and right-of-way width, determines that a setback is necessary to provide for a maximum five-foot wide sidewalk.

040.2. Side: There is no side setback requirement except as follows:

040.2.1. Property abutting a residential district with no intervening street or alley shall have a side yard requirement the same as the required side setback in the abutting residential district.

040.2.2. The administrator, upon examination of the street improvements and right-of-way width, determines that a setback is necessary to provide for a maximum five-foot wide sidewalk.

040.3. Rear: There is no rear setback except as follows:

040.3.1. Property abutting a residential district with no intervening street or alley shall have a rear yard requirement the same as the required rear setback in the abutting residential district;

040.3.2. Where there is no alley right-of-way in which case a ten-foot setback shall be required.

(Ord. 635, 1985)

There is no maximum building height limitation in the manufacturing district.

(Ord. 635, 1985)

Off-street parking as described in Chapter 17.24 shall be provided.

(Ord. 635, 1985)

070.1. The following signs are permitted:

070.1.1. Freestanding signs shall be limited to one sign per parcel, except that corner and double frontage lots are permitted one sign for each street frontage, not to exceed an area of sixty square feet per sign.

070.1.2. Directional, warning, or safety signs associated with any permitted or conditional use;

070.1.3. Temporary signs;

070.2. Uses permitted by conditional use permit by this chapter may be allowed any size and number of signs provided that they are specified by terms of the conditional use permit.

(Ord. 635, 1985)