Palmer City Zoning Code
17.36 I
Industrial District
17.36.010 Intent.
The I district is intended to apply to areas where land is best used for industrial purposes. Regulations in this district are intended to permit a wide range of industrial land and heavy commercial use and to discourage land uses which might preempt land which is best used for current or future industrial and heavy commercial development. The specific intent in establishing this district is:
A. To provide for use of the land for heavy commercial or moderate industrial uses;
B. To prohibit any residential use of the land;
C. To concentrate the industrial and heavy commercial uses within a given area to protect residential areas from noxious or noisy operations. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)
17.36.020 Permitted uses.
Land uses as defined in the Palmer use matrix in PMC 17.28.020. (Ord. 21-005 § 3, 2021; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)
17.36.028 Permitted accessory uses.
A. Light or heavy equipment storage yards accessory to a storage, repair or maintenance building on the same property or on adjacent property under the same ownership.
B. Uses and structures customarily accessory and clearly incidental to permitted principal uses and structures.
C. Dwellings for caretaker, guard or other persons whose permanent residency on the premises is required for operational safety, or protective purposes, or for persons engaged in certain industrial operations whose residency in the vicinity satisfies conditions or requirements of the work.
D. The following uses may be permitted by obtaining a conditional use permit, and must be enclosed on all sides by a site-obscuring fence not less than six feet in height if the use is located on a lot which abuts an arterial or higher classification road as recognized by the city of Palmer, or the lot abuts or is immediately across a recognized public right-of-way or easement from any lot not zoned industrial:
17.36.030 Conditional uses.
Land uses as defined in the Palmer use matrix in PMC 17.28.020. (Ord. 21-005 § 5, 2021; Ord. 10-015 § 5, 2010; Ord. 06-003 § 3, 2006; Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)
17.36.040 Building height limit.
The maximum building height shall be three stories or 50 feet above grade. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)
17.36.050 Lot area.
A.
1. Minimum lot area: 7,200 square feet,
2. Minimum lot width: 60 feet;
B. Setback Requirements. All buildings and structures must be set back 25 feet from any public right-of-way and from any lot line adjoining a residential district. (Ord. 454 § 4, 1992)
17.36.060 Parking.
17.36.110 Buffer fencing and/or landscaping.
All landscaping structural requirements (e.g., drainage, grading, concrete, rock or keystone bed structures, sidewalks) must be met at occupancy. Topsoil addition and final grading and seeding and all plantings of flora must be met within 12 months of occupancy, or within the first growing season after occupancy, whichever comes first. The owner, lessee, etc., shall continue to meet such requirements thereafter and replace all dead shrubs and trees to maintain the landscaping in good condition. (Ord. 21-005 § 6, 2021)