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Chapter 17.235 INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL DISTRICT (I-C)
Chapter 17.235
INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL DISTRICT (I-C)
17.235.010 Purpose.
17.235.020 Permitted uses.
17.235.030 Dimensional requirements.
17.235.040 Industrial-commercial development standards.
It is the city’s intent that industrial uses be encouraged in accordance with the comprehensive plan and that potential industrial areas be retained as an essential element for a vital economic base for the population of Coos Bay. The intent of this district is to provide suitable areas for a variety of industrial and commercial uses, including manufacturing, wholesale trade and distribution activities. The industrial-commercial district is intended to contain uses that will not generate excessive noise, pollution, vibration, smoke, dust, gas, fumes, odors, radiation and other violation characteristics. Conditional uses are those which may have some violation characteristics that may be mitigated and where such uses may be appropriately sited in Coos Bay. Industrial-commercial districts are only intended to be located in areas with relatively level topography, adequate water and sewerage facilities, and access to arterial streets and highways. [Ord. 503 § 1 (Exh. B), 2018; Ord. 473 § 3 (Exh. A), 2016].
The following uses in the industrial-commercial (I-C) zone are permitted (P), conditional (C) or prohibited (X) as indicated in Table 17.235.020.
Table 17.235.020 – I-C Uses
Residential uses above the ground floor or story and up to 30 percent of ground floor or story when secondary to commercial uses. Including residences for a caretaker or night watchman.
Tourist habitation/bed and breakfast and home occupations
Institutionalized residential-living facilities, such as personal-care homes, nursing homes, convalescent homes, group homes, continuing care retirement facilities and similar uses
Retail Sales – Food and Beverages
Retail Sales and Services – Automotive and Equipment
Sales/rentals, light equipment – Sale, retail, or wholesale, and/or rental from the premises of autos, noncommercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles, boats, and trailers with generally less than a 10,000-pound gross cargo weight, together with incidental maintenance. Typical uses include automobile dealers, car rental agencies, or recreational vehicle sales and rental agencies, and small boat sales.
Junkyards, wrecked motor vehicle compounds and used auto or other vehicle parts yards
Bulk gasoline storage and fuel oil distributors
Lumber yards, saw mills
Retail Sales – Products (finished product retailers with primary fabrication or assembly on site and within an entirely enclosed building)
Undertaking – Undertaking services such as preparing the dead for burial and arranging and managing funerals
Cemetery – Places primarily for the burial of human remains; may include crematory and interring services. Typical uses include mausoleums, columbariums, and crematoriums.
Cremating/interring – Crematory services involving the purification and reduction of the human body by fire and/or the keeping of human bodies other than in cemeteries. Typical uses include crematories, crematoriums, columbariums, and mausoleums.
Event facilities (commercial recreation facilities enclosed and unenclosed and auditoriums and civic centers)
Research and scientific laboratories
Auction – Auctioning of livestock on a wholesale or retail basis with incidental storage of animals produced off-property not exceeding a 48-hour period. Typical uses include animal auctions or livestock auction yards.
Animal waste processing – The processing of animal waste and by-products including, but not limited to, animal manure, animal bedding waste, and similar by-products of an animal-raising agricultural operation, for use as a commercial fertilizer or soil amendment and including composting for commercial purposes
Exterminators and pest control businesses
Public/private educational institutions including colleges, universities and vocational schools
Clubs, lodges, fraternal institutions and other places of assembly for membership groups
Public transit facilities, including park and ride facilities
Utilities and communication facilities, such as telephone exchanges, radio and television studios, electric substations and public television stations
Radio, television and cellular phone towers and antennas
Transportation, communication and utility facilities, not otherwise specifically permitted
Drive-through or drive-up facilities subject to the requirements of CBDC 17.335.070
Accessory uses and structures which are incidental to one or more permitted principal uses in this zone
Storage buildings and storage yards, for nonhazardous raw materials and finished products
Sand, gravel, topsoil, clay, dirt, precious metals, gems or other natural resources; and paper
Manufacturing, fabrication, assembling and packaging activities, including accessory storage, for the following products and/or materials: cloth, fiber, fur and hair; electrical and communication equipment; cosmetics, drugs and pharmaceuticals; food, beverage, dairy and tobacco products; and medical, dental, optical precision and surgical instruments and equipment
Manufacturing, fabrication, assembling, processing, canning, packaging, compounding, storage and treatment activities for the following activities and/or materials: brick, concrete, cement, clay, mortar, plaster and tile; chemicals and floor coverings; extraction or removal of sand, gravel, topsoil, clay, dirt, precious metals, gems or other natural resources; and paper
Marijuana-related businesses subject to the requirements of CBDC 17.335.080
Cold storage plants, frozen food lockers and ice manufacture
Explosives manufacture and storage
Temporary uses which may be approved by the director
Warehouses, wholesale and storage establishments, mail order houses and distribution facilities
Agricultural uses indoors
Agricultural uses outdoors
Conical burners and incinerators, including biomedical waste
Recycling plants, including any processing facilities
[Ord. 513 § 7 (Exh. 2), 2019; Ord. 511 § 6 (Exh. 2), 2019; Ord. 503 § 1 (Exh. B), 2018; Ord. 486 § 2, 2017; Ord. 473 § 3 (Exh. A), 2016].
Table 17.235.030 establishes dimensional requirements for industrial-commercial districts:
Table 17.235.030 – I-C
Front and street side yard building setback
10 feet side yard setback if abutting residential zone
Side and rear yard building setback
10 feet if abutting residential zone
Minimum distance between principal buildings
No requirement other than those imposed by the building code
Developments in the I-C zoning district shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the following standards:
(1) Shared access points with abutting or adjacent development shall be provided whenever practicable.
(2) New land divisions creating lots of less than one acre are not permitted unless consistent with a site plan approved under the standards of this title.
(3) Site plan review is required for all new development and modifications to existing permitted development unless expressly exempted by this title.
(4) Service Roads, Spur Tracks, Hard Stands, Outside Storage Area. No service road, hard stand or outside storage area, or similar use shall be permitted within required setbacks adjoining residential districts.
(5) Fences and Walls. Sight-obscuring fencing or walls, visible from the public right-of-way, shall be screened with dense sight-obscuring plant materials.
(6) Site Landscaping and Design Plan. Development within this zoning district shall be subject to site plan review prior to the issuance of a building permit; which review may be conducted concurrent with the processing of building permits. In addition to the site plan application requirements, the following requirements shall apply:
(a) Blank walls are discouraged next to residential zones. If a blank wall is adjacent to residential zones the applicant shall provide and maintain a vegetative buffer of at least 11 feet high that creates a varied appearance to the blank wall. Other features such as false or display windows, artwork, and varied building materials are acceptable.
(b) Building facades facing public streets shall have 50 percent of the total surface area of the wall transparent.
(c) Parking areas adjacent to rights-of-way shall be physically separated from the rights-of-way by landscaping or other features to a height of three feet. A combination of walls, berms and landscape materials is highly recommended. Sidewalks may be placed within this landscaping if the street is defined as a collector or arterial with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour or above, in order to separate the pedestrian from heavy or high-speed traffic on adjacent roads.
(d) Primary building entrances shall be physically oriented to the street or to a pedestrian walkway.
(e) If a development is located within 250 feet of an existing or proposed transit stop, the applicant shall provide a transit stop and shelter directly adjacent or as close as possible to the main building entrance as the transit authority requires.
(f) All off-street parking areas shall be planted with a minimum of one deciduous tree for every six parking spaces. Trees shall be of such species and spacing that a canopy effect shall result. Trees must be dispersed throughout the parking lot.
(g) Required setback areas adjacent to streets and those abutting a residential district shall be continuously maintained in lawn or live ground cover. Allowed uses in these areas are bikeways, pedestrian paths and water quality facilities.
(h) A minimum of 20 percent of the site shall be landscaped. Vegetated stormwater treatment facilities and pedestrian plazas may be used to satisfy the requirement. To qualify as a pedestrian plaza the following conditions must be met:
(i) Minimum Size. A minimum of 10 feet depth and width with a minimum size of 650 square feet.
(ii) Paving. A minimum of 80 percent of the area shall be paved in a decorative paver or textured, colored concrete. Asphalt is prohibited as a paver in pedestrian plazas.
(i) Structures and open spaces should be clustered on site to maximize the campus and open space qualities within the development.
(j) When security fencing is required, it shall be a combination of solid wall, wrought iron, dense hedges or other similar treatment. Long expanses of fences or walls shall be interspersed with trees or hedges to break up the appearance of the wall at least every 50 feet for a distance of at least five feet.
(7) Pedestrian Access Plan. An on-site pedestrian circulation system must be provided, which connects the street to the public entrances of the structure(s) on site.
(a) The circulation system shall be hard-surfaced and be at least five feet wide.
(b) Where the system crosses driveways, parking, and/or loading areas, the system must be clearly identifiable through the use of elevation changes, speed bumps, varied paving materials or other similar methods approved by the reviewing authority and in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
(c) The on-site pedestrian circulation system and parking areas must be lighted to a level which provides adequate lighting so that parking areas can be used safely when natural light is not present.
(d) The pedestrian system must connect the site to adjacent streets and transit stops. The pedestrian system must also connect on-site public open space or parks, commercial, office and institutional developments to adjacent like uses and developments for all buildings set back 45 feet or farther from the street lot line, when existing development does not preclude such connection. Development patterns must not preclude eventual site-to-site connections, even if an adjoining site is not planned for development at the time of the applicant’s development.
(8) Performance Standards.
(a) No land or structure shall be used or occupied within this district unless the activity complies with the following minimum performance standards:
(i) Maximum permissible noise levels shall not exceed permitted levels measured at the appropriate measuring points established by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. If there is doubt that the proposed use will violate these standards or if a valid complaint has been registered about the level of noise, the owner or agent may be required to show written compliance with state regulations.
(ii) Vibration. Vibration other than that caused by highway vehicles, trains, and aircraft, which is discernible without instruments at the property line of the use concerned, is prohibited.
(iii) Smoke and Particulate Matter. Air emissions must be within legal limits as approved by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
(iv) Odors. The emission of noxious gases or matter in such quantities as to be readily detectable at any point beyond the property line of the use creating such odors is prohibited.
(v) Heat and Glare. Except for exterior lighting, operations producing heat and glare shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building. Exterior lighting shall be designed to shield surrounding streets and land uses from violation and glare.
(b) Administration. As a condition for the granting of a building permit and/or site plan approval, at the request of the responsible official, the applicant shall furnish information sufficient to determine the degree of compliance with the standards in this section. Such request may include submission of continuous records of operation for periodic checks to assure maintenance of standards, and special surveys.
(9) Light and Glare Standards.
(a) Except for exterior lighting, operations producing heat and glare shall be conducted entirely within an enclosed building.
(b) Exterior lighting shall be shielded and directed away from lots in adjacent uses.
(c) Interior lighting in parking structures shall be shielded to minimize nighttime glare affecting lots in adjacent uses.
(d) When nonconforming exterior lighting is replaced, new lighting shall conform to the requirements of this section.
(10) Outdoor Storage Standards.
(a) All storage areas (including but not limited to areas used to store raw materials, finished and partially finished products and wastes) shall be screened from adjoining properties or public rights-of-way. Storage areas which adjoin residential districts or in areas where differences in elevation defeat the purpose of this requirement shall be screened with a fence which shall be placed on top of a berm in order to effectively screen the use.
(b) Screening shall be placed on all sides of storage areas other than where a building wall would act as a screen.
(c) Outdoor storage is prohibited as follows:
(i) In floodways;
(ii) On slopes greater than 15 percent;
(iii) In parking stalls;
(iv) In areas where outdoor storage or display causes traffic or pedestrian circulation problems as determined by the responsible official or where a minimum five-foot-wide walkway does not remain clear and free of obstructions;
(v) Any materials that attract animals, birds or vermin; and
(vi) In fire lanes.
(d) The applicant shall demonstrate that both outdoor storage and the screening for outdoor storage are in the appropriate locations on the site to minimize impacts, given the operational practices of the facility.
(11) Vibration. Site-generated ground vibrations shall not be perceptible by a person of ordinary sensitivity, without instruments, at any point of any property line of the property on which a use or structure is located. Vibrations from temporary construction activities and vehicles that leave the property (such as trucks, trains, airplanes and helicopters) are excluded.
(12) Electromagnetic Interference. Electric fields and magnetic fields shall not be created that adversely affect the normal operation of equipment or instruments or normal radio, telephone, or television reception from off the premises where the activity is conducted. This section does not apply to telecommunication facilities which are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission under the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 or its successor. [Ord. 503 § 1 (Exh. B), 2018; Ord. 473 § 3 (Exh. A), 2016].