Chapter 17.45
LI LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
Sections:
17.45.040 Special use standards.
17.45.060 Area, width, height, and yard requirements.
17.45.070 General requirements.
17.45.080 Signs and lighting of premises.
17.45.100 Hydrologist, soil engineer, engineer, and/or geologist.
17.45.010 Purpose.
This district is designed to encourage heavy commercial and light industrial businesses that promote the economic and employment base of the city. This district is designed for the new and complementary light industrial and fabrication land uses. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.020 Permitted uses.
The following uses are permitted outright:
A. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Community service; includes governmental offices;
2. Transportation facilities; includes construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities located within right-of-way controlled by a public agency, consistent with the transportation system plan;
3. Utility structures and facilities, city-planned projects; i.e., utilities identified by an adopted city master plan or development review approval.
B. Commercial Uses.
1. Artisanal and light manufacture uses in commercial zones – includes carpentry;
2. Automotive repair and service, includes fueling station, car wash, tire sales and repair or replacement, painting, and other repair for automobiles, motorcycles, aircraft, boats, RVs, trucks, etc.;
3. Light service shops such as picture framing studio, and tailoring;
4. Technical services such as copy shops, appliance and computer repair, and makerspaces;
5. Lumber yard and similar sales of building or contracting supplies, or heavy equipment;
6. Self-service storage, commercial.
C. Industrial Uses and Employment Uses.
1. Machine shop, and sales, service and repair of light machinery including lawn mowers, weed eaters, and chainsaws (does not include large automotive or vehicle repair);
2. Special trade contracting facilities, such as floor laying, masonry, stone, plumbing, electrical, metal work, roofing, heating and air conditioning, cabinet making, and carpentry. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.030 Conditional uses.
The following uses are permitted when authorized in accordance with Chapter 17.100 RRMC:
A. Residential Uses.
1. Household solar panels.
B. Public and Institutional Uses.
1. Emergency services; includes police, fire, ambulance;
2. Public works utilities storage yards; includes vehicle and equipment storage, maintenance, and repair;
3. School, trade, technical, or vocational;
4. Utility structures and facilities, regional projects; project is not part of an adopted city master plan or development review approval;
5. Wireless communication facilities.
C. Commercial Uses.
1. Offices, specializing in research, prototype development, or creation of digital products.
D. Industrial Uses and Employment Uses.
1. Artisanal and light manufacture uses;
2. Beverage and bottling facility, except as allowed for commercial uses;
3. Dairy product manufacture (e.g., butter, milk, cheese, ice cream);
4. Finished textile and leather products manufacture;
5. Food processing, including canning, freezing, drying and similar food processing and preserving;
6. Freight terminals, including docks, storage, warehousing, wholesale distribution, cold storage; not self-service storage or mini-storage warehouses;
7. Newspaper, periodical, publishing, and printing except artisanal and light manufacture uses. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.040 Special use standards.
The following uses are permitted when found to be in compliance with their relevant special standards criteria, contained in Chapter 17.105 RRMC and/or their specific standards within this chapter.
A. Commercial Uses.
1. Mobile vendors, subject to the same standards throughout all zones, as stated in RRMC 17.65.160. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.050 Accessory uses.
The following uses are permitted as accessory to an existing use in the LI district:
A. Commercial Uses.
1. Automotive electric vehicle charger;
2. Retail stores such as hardware stores, garden shops, drug stores, antique shops, clothing stores, and grocery stores;
3. Offices, such as banks, financial, and professional offices.
B. Industrial Uses and Employment Uses.
1. Dwelling for a caretaker or watchman;
2. Metal/shipping cargo container.
C. Other Uses.
1. Solar panels (for incidental use). [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.060 Area, width, height, and yard requirements.
A. The maximum building height is 40 feet.
B. Each new parcel must front on and have access to a publicly owned and maintained road for a minimum of 40 feet, except when the parcel is served by a flagpole approved under RRMC 16.20.030, or a private road created and approved through a partition, subdivision or planned unit development.
C. There are no requirements for lot area or width, or for yard setbacks except as necessary to meet the off-street parking and loading requirements or as a condition of approval. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.070 General requirements.
A. No use shall be permitted and no process, equipment or materials shall be used which are found by the planning commission to be harmful to persons living or working in the vicinity or by reason of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, cinders, dirt, refuse, water-carried waste, noise, vibrations, illumination, glare, or unsightliness or to involve any hazard of fire or explosions.
B. All business, services and processes shall be conducted entirely within a completely enclosed structure, or in an area immediately adjacent thereto, provided the area of such outside use is paved and does not exceed 10 percent of the area of the enclosed industrial use and is entirely on privately owned property. Off-street parking and loading areas, sales yards, nurseries, new and used car sales lots, boat and trailer sales lots, and vehicle and equipment rental and storage yards need not be within an enclosed structure.
C. Open storage of materials attendant to a permitted use or conditional use shall be permitted only within a paved area surrounded or screened by an approved solid wall or an approved site screening fence six feet in height; provided, that no materials or equipment, except vehicles, shall be stored to a height greater than that of the wall or fence.
D. Where a site adjoins or is located across an alley from a residential district, a solid wall or fence, six feet in height, shall be located on the property line common to such districts, except in a required front yard, where it must be inside the property line.
E. All new development shall be required to provide half street improvements along all frontage roads, including curbs, gutters, sidewalks and storm drain facilities, and pavement to the center line of the road(s).
F. Any developer working in any public right-of-way within the city limits shall provide the city with a certificate of insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 naming the city as an additional insured. Public utilities are exempt from this subsection. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.080 Signs and lighting of premises.
A. All signs located within the LI or light industrial district shall comply with Chapter 17.85 RRMC.
B. Outdoor lighting standards and fixtures for illumination of premises shall be so designed and installed that direct rays are not toward or parallel with a public street or highway or directed toward any residential uses. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.090 Off-street parking.
All uses shall provide off-street parking facilities as required in Chapter 17.70 RRMC except when located within a special district organized to provide common public parking areas. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].
17.45.100 Hydrologist, soil engineer, engineer, and/or geologist.
Any developer developing in the city limits may be required to pay for a state of Oregon licensed hydrologist, soil engineer, engineer, and/or geologist who is hired by the city to review the development plans to ensure that all requirements and specifications of the city are met. [Ord. 23-418-O § 124 (Exh. A-4)].