Chapter 19.59
MANUFACTURING DISTRICT, M-1-B

Sections:

19.59.010 Uses permitted.

19.59.020 Building site dimensions.

19.59.025 Fronting on street – Requirement.

19.59.030 Off-street parking.

19.59.040 Caretakers’ apartment permitted.

19.59.050 Outside storage.

19.59.060 Signs.

19.59.010 Uses permitted.

In the manufacturing district M-1-B no building or premises shall be used nor shall any building or structure be hereafter erected or altered except for one or more of the following uses:

(1) Automobile repairs, when conducted entirely within a building;

(2) Storage or sales of automobiles in good operating condition;

(3) Printing plants and newspapers;

(4) Bakeries with retail shop or office in connection therewith on the street frontage and with such shop or office in front harmonizing with those of the district;

(5) Retail stores of all descriptions where the sale of the merchandise is completed within the building;

(6) Shops for the repair or servicing of all sorts of household and personal equipment with retail shop or office in connection therewith on the street frontage and with such shop or office in front harmonizing with those of the district;

(7) Restaurants and related uses, confectionery shops, barbershops, and beauty parlors, all in accordance with regulations of the city;

(8) Banks, business or professional offices;

(9) Hospitals, medical clinics and homes for the aged or for children;

(10) Theaters, dancehalls, skating rinks, swimming pools, bowling alleys and other commercial amusement enterprises within the enclosure of a building;

(11) Undertaking and funeral parlors;

(12) Manufacturing with retail shop or office in connection therewith on the street frontage and with such shop or office front harmonizing with those of the district, and only if there is no excessive noise or vibration producing machinery used in the process; and the materials or methods used produce no obnoxious dust, fumes, smoke or odors; provided, however, that no manufacturing occupancies which process highly combustible, inflammable or explosive materials shall be permitted;

(13) Bus terminals and stations;

(14) Commercial off-street parking lots and garages;

(15) Hotels and motels;

(16) Branch offices for dry cleaning plants or laundries; provided, however, dry cleaning establishments using nonflammable cleaning materials only and having boilers of not more than 10 horsepower rating and not greater than 100 pounds steam pressure shall be allowed; provided, further, self-service laundries and self-service dry cleaning establishments shall be allowed provided they comply with all other ordinances and resolutions of the city;

(17) Small animal clinics or veterinary hospitals with retail shop or office in connection therewith where the medical care and services administered to animals occur only within the confines of the principal structure located on the premises, but only if the materials or methods used in such care and services produce no obnoxious fumes, smoke or odors; and further provided, that refuse disposal meets the minimum standards of all applicable health requirements;

(18) Recreational parks including buildings and/or structures associated with same;

(19) Light industrial uses. This category would include operations within a building such as machine shops, metal fabricating plants, carpentry or cabinet-making operations and electronic plants and other similar manufacturing activities where the assembly or manufacture of items are conducted within the enclosure of building;

(20) On-site hazardous waste treatment and storage provided such facilities are accessory and clearly subordinate to a permitted use and are developed and operated in conformance with state and federal regulations, including Chapter 70.105 RCW, as the same now exists or is hereafter amended;

(21) Tents for special event sales by local retail merchants; provided, that such tents are erected on the same property on which the merchant has his regular place of business or on a parking lot adjoining the merchant’s regular place of business to which the merchant’s customers normally have access. Additionally, established merchants having a regular place of business within the city limits of Longview may apply for a special event satellite tent sale in conjunction with another place of business; provided, that the applicant provides a signed agreement statement from the host business and a plot plan illustrating the location of the tent in relationship to other structures on and abutting the property; the special event sale does not impact the host business’s required off-street parking facilities; and the proposed sale of items is consistent with the permitted uses of the zone in which it is located. Subject to the following:

(a) Any such tent is fire-retardant and meets all applicable life safety and access requirements of LMC Title 18,

(b) That special sales are limited to a total of not more than 30 days in any calendar year per business, and not more than 10 successive days per sales event. Events held at a host location shall be included in the host business’s total allowable special event sale days, and

(c) Approval for such special event sale has first been granted by the city manager and the administrative fire chief. (Ord. 2643 § 5, 1996; Ord. 2322 § 7, 1988; Ord. 2102 § 1, 1982).

19.59.020 Building site dimensions.

There shall be no building site dimensions or yard requirements within the M-1-B zone. (Ord. 2102 § 1, 1982)

19.59.025 Fronting on street – Requirement.

Every principal structure shall front on or be located on property which fronts upon a street dedicated to and maintained by a municipal corporation. (Ord. 2647 § 6, 1997).

19.59.030 Off-street parking.

Every permitted land use erected or enlarged after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter shall provide off-street parking facilities as required by Chapter 19.78 LMC. (Ord. 2102 § 1, 1982).

19.59.040 Caretakers’ apartment permitted.

A caretakers’ apartment shall be allowed for any business within the manufacturing district M-1-B except that no apartment shall be allowed within or above any gasoline service station. The permitted apartment shall be part of the same structure as the business and is to be occupied by only the owner or his employee whose duty it shall be to care for, watch and guard the property, particularly at such times as the structure may not be open for business. The apartment shall not be rented or occupied by any party not employed in the main business occupying the property. (Ord. 2102 § 1, 1982).

19.59.050 Outside storage.

Open storage shall not be permitted within any open area but shall be allowed; provided stored materials are screened from view from the outside by means of a fence or wall or landscaping of approved nature not less than five and no more than 10 feet in height. Outside storage shall be permitted only for materials which are associated with the principal use or manufacturing process on the lot. The height of the stockpile shall not exceed the height of the view-obscuring fence. (Ord. 2102 § 1, 1982).

19.59.060 Signs.

All signs shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 16.13 LMC.

Signs which serve to identify a business or a use shall be permitted, subject to the following requirements:

(1) No sign shall exceed 75 square feet, and no more than two signs shall be permitted for each establishment;

(2) Two freestanding signs are permitted for each establishment; provided, that the maximum height does not exceed 16 feet and such signs do not project over the public right-of-way. The size of each of such signs shall not exceed 50 square feet. A double-sided sign shall be permitted and the area shall be calculated on one side only. In the case of corner lots, nothing shall be erected or placed in such a manner as to impede vision between the height of 42 inches and a height eight feet above the highest level of the street abutting the property within a triangular shaped area determined by measuring a distance of 20 feet from the property corner at the street intersection along the property line common to the lot and each abutting street and the straight line necessary to connect the above-mentioned two 20-foot sides in order to form the third side of a triangle;

(3) No sign shall protrude beyond the highest point of the building to which it is affixed, and shall not extend more than five feet from the wall of the building;

(4) All signs shall be stationary, and the stop and support structure shall be of permanent construction and attractive in appearance;

(5) Illuminated signs shall be of constant intensity and color;

(6) Signs which restrict the view of adjoining properties or create confusion relative to interpretation of traffic signals shall not be permitted;

(7) No plot plan shall be approved until the community development department has found the signs to be in conformance with these regulations. (Ord. 2839 § 10, 2002; Ord. 2774, 2000; Ord. 2367 § 1, 1989; Ord. 2102 § 1, 1982).