Chapter 17.75
RURAL AREA INDUSTRIAL (RAI)
Sections:
17.75.010 Purpose.
17.75.020 Permitted uses - Curtis Industrial Park.
17.75.030 Permitted uses - Ed Carlson Memorial Field.
17.75.035 Permitted uses – General purpose rural industrial sites.
17.75.040 Adequate facilities and services.
17.75.050 Urban growth prohibited.
17.75.010 Purpose.
Rural Area Industrial sites are rural areas of more intense development under RCW 36.70A.070 and have been identified where industrial activities have existed historically and are planned for future activity, in concert with plans by public agencies. The purpose of this zone is to provide guidelines for development in such zones, and to insure that such zones do not create a need for urban services or lead to urban development in rural areas. [Ord. 1170B, 2000]
17.75.020 Permitted uses - Curtis Industrial Park.
(1) The Curtis Industrial Park includes lands used by Weyerhaeuser for log yard and sorting yards and has potential for rail-oriented large scale industrial uses.
(2) Uses within the planned areas may be limited to rail-oriented industrial uses and/or resource uses and associated supporting uses, or general uses identified in LCC 17.75.035.
(3) Industrial development within the Port of Chehalis property may be achieved through the process identified in RCW 36.70A.365 and Chapter 17.20 LCC. [Ord. 1179, 2002; Ord. 1170B, 2000]
17.75.030 Permitted uses - Ed Carlson Memorial Field.
(1) The Ed Carlson Memorial Field is a municipal airport operated by Lewis County. The area identified as airport area is the area necessary to protect the airport from incompatible uses, including residential development, and to assure the availability of air service to the south county area.
(2) Permitted uses shall include all aviation-related uses, and light industrial and warehouse, storage, and transportation facilities not inconsistent with the Ed Carlson Memorial Field Obstruction Zone (Chapter 17.85 LCC), provided that no use is permitted which requires municipal sewers for operation.
(3) Development shall be through a master plan process which identifies the airport comprehensive plan and associated compatible uses. No new development shall occur within the airport industrial zone until a master plan is approved. Existing uses are considered lawful uses and may be expanded consistent with the airport master plan through the binding site plan process.
(4) Uses within the planned areas shall be limited to industrial and/or resource use and associated supporting uses. All properties so designated shall be developed through a master plan process which identifies how the plan objectives for the site shall be met, including minimum planning block (a tract devoted to one or more primary uses) sizes for primary uses and airport related or dependent uses. The approach surface areas, as identified in the comprehensive plan, shall be restricted to conform with FAA guidelines. Residential uses shall be prohibited within the zone to protect the long-term viability of the airport.
(5) Uses within the planned areas shall be consistent with RCW 36.70A.547 to discourage the siting of incompatible uses adjacent to public aviation airports.
(a) The mapped area is the minimum area necessary to protect general airport activities.
(b) Incompatible uses shall include multifamily and clustered residential uses, places of public assembly, and medical facilities involving the care of people or animals. [Ord. 1179, 2002; Ord. 1170B, 2000]
17.75.035 Permitted uses – General purpose rural industrial sites.
All other designated rural industrial sites may be used for general purpose industrial, transportation, and associated activities, including warehousing and storage. Such uses are confined to the lot or lots designated and any permit for development or redevelopment within such site shall assure that the facilities used to serve the industrial and associated uses shall not be used to serve development outside the designated industrial areas, except consistent with the provisions of the uses permitted under charts shown in sections 17.42.030 and 17.42.040 above. [Ord. 1179, 2002]
17.75.040 Adequate facilities and services.
The applicant for any development permit shall provide evidence in the form of a letter of availability from the local service providers for schools, water, and fire, where applicable, that the project can be accommodated within the existing system or, alternatively, adequate provision has been made to upgrade or otherwise increase capacity concurrently with the development impact. No development can be approved under this chapter without a written finding that adequacy requirements are met consistent with Chapter 17.130 LCC. [Ord. 1179, 2002; Ord. 1170B, 2000]
17.75.050 Urban growth prohibited.
The Administrator shall find that any project submitted for approval under this chapter is consistent with Chapter 17.150 LCC and that appropriate conditions are imposed to assure that “urban growth” as defined in RCW 36.70A.030(17) and as prohibited outside urban growth areas by RCW 36.70A.110, does not occur as a result of the development in question, nor does the project create a need or demand for urban levels of public facilities or services. [Ord. 1170B, 2000]