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West Bountiful City Zoning Code

17.36 Light

Industrial District, L-I

17.36.010 Purpose

The light industrial L-I district is established to provide areas in the city where manufacturing firms can engage in processing, assembling, manufacturing, warehousing and storage, and for incidental service facilities and public facilities where heavy industrial processes are not allowed to intrude, and where these uses can be separated from general commercial areas frequented by the public. The district is intended to encourage sound development by providing and protecting an environment for unobtrusive uses and attractive, aesthetically pleasing areas. Representative uses in this district would be research parks, professional offices and light wholesale distribution facilities. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.36.020 Permitted Uses

The following uses are permitted in L-I light industrial district:

  1. Appliance and small equipment repair, including shoe repair;
  2. Equipment sales, service and repair;
  3. Printing and publishing;
  4. Research and development;
  5. Offices, business and professional;
  6. Warehousing and storage facilities;
  7. Public and quasi-public institutions; 
  8. Retail commercial uses;
  9. Sexually oriented businesses; and
  10. Medical cannabis pharmacy, as defined in Chapter 17.62.
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015
Amended by Ord. 429-20 on 7/27/2020

17.36.030 Conditional Uses

The following uses are conditional in the L-I light industrial district:

  1. Light manufacturing, compounding, processing, milling or packaging of products, which must be accomplished entirely within an enclosed structure, including but not limited to the following:
    1. Automotive parts and accessories, but not including tires and batteries;
    2. Steel structural members and related products;
    3. Lumber and wood products;
    4. Apparel and other textile products;
    5. Paper and allied products;
    6. Rubber and plastic products; and
    7. Electronic and electrical products.
  2. Cannabis production establishment, as defined in Chapter 17.62; and
  3. Other uses and businesses which are similar to those listed in this section and Section 17.36.020, as determined by the planning commission. 
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015
Amended by Ord. 429-20 on 7/27/2020

17.36.035 Prohibited Uses

The following uses are prohibited in the L-I light industrial district:

  1. Retail tobacco specialty businesses; and
  2. Retail e-cigarette specialty businesses.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.36.040 Area And Frontage Regulations

There shall be no area or frontage requirement for an individual lot in a L-I district except that each shall provide at least one hundred (100) feet of frontage on any side abutting an arterial or collector street. No frontage requirement shall apply to sides of lots abutting other streets. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.36.050 Yard Regulations

The following regulations apply in an L-I light industrial district:

  1. Front Yard. The minimum front yard setback for all structures shall be twenty-five (25) feet.
  2. Side Yard. The minimum side yard setback for all structures shall be ten (10) feet, except where the parcel abuts any residential district a side yard of at least thirty (30) feet shall be provided on that side adjacent to the residential zone. The side yard requirement adjacent to a residential district may be modified if justified and approved by the planning commission. On corner lots the side yard which faces the street shall not be less than twenty (20) feet for all structures.
  3. Rear Yard. The minimum rear yard setback for all structures shall be twenty (20) feet, except where the parcel abuts a residential district a rear yard of thirty (30) feet shall be provided. The rear yard requirement adjacent to a residential district may be modified if justified and approved by the planning commission. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.36.060 Height Regulations

  1. No structure shall be erected to a height greater than one hundred (100) feet. Structures may be erected to a height greater than one hundred (100) feet upon review and specific approval by the planning commission. 
  2. Penthouses or roof structures for the housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, and fire or parapet walls, skylight, towers, steeples, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, water tanks, wireless or television masts, theater lofts, silos or similar structures may be erected above the height limits herein prescribed, but no space above the height limit shall be allowed for the purpose of providing additional floor space, nor shall such increased height be in violation of any other ordinance or regulation of the City.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.36.070 Off-Street Parking

  1. Off-street access and parking shall be provided and designed as specified in Chapter 17.52.
  2. No parking space shall be provided that would allow a vehicle to back out directly into a public street. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015

17.36.080 Development Standards

  1. Site Plan. A site plan for all phases of the proposed development shall be presented for review and approval, as provided in the Municipal Code.
  2. Landscaping. Notwithstanding Chapter 12.28, no less than ten (10%) percent of the total site area shall be landscaped. Required side and rear yard areas may be used for driveways or parking; provided, that trees and shrubs of sufficient size and quantity are installed to assure a visual screen from abutting residential properties. All landscaping shall be adequately irrigated and maintained.
  3. Outdoor Storage and Merchandising. Storage and merchandising shall be accomplished entirely within an enclosed structure or as provided by the zoning matrix following this title. 
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 374-15 on 11/18/2015
Amended by Ord. 461-22 on 9/20/2022

374-15

429-20

461-22