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Palmer City Zoning Code

17.58 BP

Business Park District

17.58.010 Intent.

The BP district is established as a district in which the specific intent is:

A. To provide use of the land in the business park for employers to use for light manufacturing, processing, warehousing, wholesaling, and distribution;

B. To permit large storage areas for commercial applications, as required. (Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000)

17.58.020 Permitted uses.

Land uses as defined in the Palmer use matrix in PMC 17.28.020. (Ord. 21-005 § 7, 2021; Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 583 § 3, 2002; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000)

17.58.028 Permitted accessory uses and structures.

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. (Ord. 21-005 § 8, 2021; Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 583 § 4, 2002; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000. Formerly 17.58.030)

17.58.030 Conditional uses.

Land uses as defined in the Palmer use matrix in PMC 17.28.020. (Ord. 21-005 § 9, 2021; Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000. Formerly 17.58.040)

17.58.060 Building and structure height limit.

The maximum building or structure height shall be 50 feet above grade. (Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000)

17.58.070 Lot area.

The maximum lot coverage is unrestricted, provided adequate setback, off-street parking and loading and buffer landscaping is provided as set out in PMC 17.58.080, 17.58.090 and 17.58.110. (Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000)

17.58.080 Parking and loading.

Parking and loading requirements are set out in Chapter 17.64 PMC. (Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000)

17.58.090 Setback requirements.

All buildings and structures must be set back 25 feet from any public right-of-way and from any lot line adjoining the boundary of the business park, and 10 feet from all other lot lines. (Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000)

17.58.110 Buffer fencing and/or landscaping.

A. A buffer consisting of a screening fence a minimum of six feet in height or buffer landscaping shall be provided along an exterior lot line forming the boundary of the BP district. This landscaping shall consist of shrubs, trees or a combination which will attain a mature height of at least six feet, with an average height of eight feet, planted at intervals less than 10 feet on center. The landscaping bed shall be at least four feet in width. Deciduous trees or bushes may not make up more than 50 percent of the mixture. Naturally occurring stands of indigenous trees such as birch, willow or alder are accepted as meeting this standard.

B. All areas not covered by buildings, roads, or used for parking or storage, shall be covered with grasses or other appropriate ground cover.

C. 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 § 11, 2021; Ord. 10-005 § 3, 2010; Ord. 565 § 4, 2000)