Chapter 19.63
RURAL INDUSTRIAL ZONE
Sections:
19.63.030 Property development standards.
19.63.010 Purpose.
The rural industrial zone is intended to provide appropriate areas for the development of small scale industrial uses which, by their nature, are essential to a balanced economic base in the County and do not require full urban services. This zone is generally intended to be applied in areas that can provide the limited services necessary or in areas already committed to industrial use. [Ord. 2018-003 § 1; 2005 RLDC § 63.010.]
19.63.020 Permitted uses.
The following uses, with accessory uses, shall be permitted using ministerial review procedures (Chapter 19.22 JCC), unless criteria-based site plan review is required (Chapter 19.42 JCC), in which case uses shall be permitted using quasi-judicial review procedures (Chapter 19.22 JCC). Uses shall also meet the applicable development standards listed in JCC 19.63.030. In all cases, a development permit (Chapter 19.41 JCC) shall be required as final permit approval.
A. Industrial – Institutional.
1. Airport and related aviation uses, including hangar and maintenance facilities.
2. Animal shelter.
3. Commercial power-generating facility.
4. Freight, train, bus or taxi terminals.
5. Public and semi-public building, such as police or fire station, ambulance service, emergency medical facility, library, museum, post office, community building.
6. Utility structure and yard.
7. Recycling center, resource recovery facility, sewage disposal plant, pumping or treatment facility, water storage reservoir, sewage transfer site, waste transfer center, subject in part to Chapter 19.86 JCC.
B. Industrial – Sale and/or Service.
1. Automobile, truck and heavy equipment sales, parts and accessory stores.
2. Automobile and truck service stations.
3. Equipment sales, service, rental or repair.
4. General laboratories and research facilities.
5. Heavy equipment and farm implement sales and repair.
6. Lockers, ice houses and cold storage facilities.
7. Photographic film processing, photo engraving, photocopying establishments.
8. Plumbing and sheet metal shops.
9. Printing, lithographing, blueprinting or publishing and distribution facilities.
10. Saw shops, including sales and repair.
11. Scientific research or experimental development of products.
12. Taxidermy.
13. Tire store, repair and recapping.
14. Upholstery, automobile and furniture.
15. Veterinary clinic and hospital.
C. Industrial – Repair, Assembly and Manufacturing.
1. Automotive, truck and heavy equipment garages and repair, including paint and body shops, towing services and impound yard.
2. Cement and asphalt batching, rock processing and crushing.
3. Compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of products.
4. Foundry.
5. Manufacture of textiles, cloth, or fiber products.
6. Manufacture, assembly or repair of products
7. Metal reduction, milling, and refining.
8. Metal fabrication, welding and repair.
9. Printing, photocopying, publishing, bindin.g
10. Processing or packaging of food or drink products.
11. Smelting.
12. Wood products manufacturing, including secondary and tertiary processing.
13. Temporary storage of unoccupied manufactured dwelling.
D. Industrial – Storage and Distribution.
1. Agricultural cooperative.
2. Automobile wrecking yard.
3. Equipment storage and rental yards.
4. Food storage and distribution.
5. Fuel distribution facility.
6. Mini-storage units with office and/or quarters.
7. Storage or sale yards for building materials or new and used equipment, contractor’s equipment, overnight truck or trailer parking.
8. Warehousing, receiving and shipping.
9. Wholesale sales or distribution of equipment or products, which may also include retail sales.
E. Industrial – Support Services.
1. Administrative, educational and other related activities and facilities in conjunction with an authorized rural industrial use.
2. Building maintenance service.
3. Caretaker or night watchman (quarters or manufactured dwelling); the unit must be related to the business, and the manufactured dwelling must be removed when the business ceases to operate; the resident must be an employee of the business, rent must not be charged and employee status must be documented.
4. Commercial parking lot.
5. Restaurant, lounge, food stand, coffee kiosk, food catering.
6. Tavern.
7. Transitional housing shelter per JCC 19.99A.020(B).
F. Industrial – “Agricultural Enterprise, Commercial” as defined by JCC 19.11.030.
1. Agricultural, farming and farm use. [Ord. 2018-003 § 1; Ord. 2016-004 § 1(1); 2005 RLDC § 63.020.]
19.63.030 Property development standards.
All uses authorized by this chapter are subject to certain additional permit, process and property development standards that are contained elsewhere in this title. The following is a list of chapters that are or may be applicable:
A. Permit Review Requirements.
1. Basic review provisions – Chapter 19.20 JCC.
2. Pre-application review – Chapter 19.21 JCC.
3. Permit review procedures – Chapter 19.22 JCC.
4. Basic application requirements – Chapter 19.40 JCC.
5. Administration of permits – Chapter 19.41 JCC.
6. Site plan review – Chapter 19.42 JCC.
7. Temporary uses – Chapter 19.43 JCC.
8. Variances – Chapter 19.44 JCC.
9. Conditional uses – Chapter 19.45 JCC.
B. Property Development Standards.
1. Minimum lot size – one-half acre; one acre (when dwelling or quarters in conjunction with authorized industrial use).
2. Setbacks – Front (10 feet), side (10 feet), rear (10 feet).
3. Access and transportation – See Chapter 19.81 JCC.
4. Airport overlay – See Chapter 19.69D JCC.
5. Archaeological resources – See Chapter 19.93 JCC.
6. Building size, heights, setbacks and yard dimensions and accessory building size limits shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 19.72 JCC.
7. Buildings, new and expanded, shall be or remain rural in character. Buildings shall be considered rural when:
a. New buildings are less than 35,000 square feet in size; or
b. A lawfully existing building on a single authorized lot or parcel is expanded and the expansion results in one of the following circumstances:
[1] The expanded building does not exceed 40,000 square feet in size; or
[2] The expanded building does not exceed the size amount that is equivalent to a 50 percent increase of the cumulative size(s) of buildings already lawfully existing on the same authorized lot or parcel; or
[3] The application demonstrates that the proposed use and building(s) are rural in character based upon findings that show compliance with the following requirements:
[A] The use is located three or more miles from an urban growth boundary, and one or more miles from an unincorporated community;
[B] The use employs no more than the equivalent of 30 full-time employees at the site;
[C] The use primarily serves rural markets (i.e., markets that are outside of local urban growth boundaries and local unincorporated communities);
[D] Public sewer and water facilities are not available to the site, or are not reasonably expected to be extended to the site, from an established urban growth boundary or an established unincorporated community (the Director shall provide land use notice pursuant to JCC 19.32.030(A) to the planning official for an affected city);
[E] Traffic generated to and from the site will not exceed the prescribed capacity limits for rural roads serving the proposed use; and
[F] The Review Body may assure the rural character of uses and buildings is achieved and maintained by placing specific limits on the use, such as the number of employees, structure size, traffic generation, parking, kinds of permitted activities.
c. Space approved for a caretaker or night watchman shall not be counted against the building size limit set forth in subsections (B)(7)(a) and (b) of this section.
d. There shall be no floor area limitation for new or expanded industrial uses, including accessory uses subordinate to the industrial development in areas planned and zoned for industrial use on January 1, 2004, where the land is more than three miles outside of the urban growth boundary for the City of Grants Pass, or outside the urban growth boundary for the City of Cave Junction. The County shall provide written notice to the Cities of Grants Pass or Cave Junction for any development proposed pursuant to this section, when the development is within 10 miles of either urban growth boundary. The authority granted in this subsection shall terminate on January 2, 2006, unless extended by Oregon law.
e. There shall be no floor area limitation for new industrial uses, sited on an abandoned or diminished industrial mill site that was engaged in the processing or manufacturing of wood products, provided the uses will be located only on the portion of the mill site that was zoned for industrial uses on October 28, 1994.
f. There shall be no building size limitation on new or expanded buildings for uses listed in JCC 19.63.020(A) (Industrial – Institutional).
g. There shall be no building size limitation on new or expanded buildings for uses that require proximity to rural resources (examples of such resources include geothermal wells, mineral or aggregate deposits, water reservoirs, natural features, or river ports).
h. Lawfully existing industrial buildings that exceed the size limits contained in these rules at the time of adoption (and the uses contained within them) shall not be considered nonconforming structures or uses and shall not be subject to the requirements of Chapter 19.13 JCC (Nonconforming Lots, Uses and Structures).
8. Deer overlay – See Chapter 19.69B JCC.
9. Erosion, sediment, storm drainage facilities – See Chapter 19.83 JCC.
10. Fences, walls and screens – See Chapter 19.73 JCC.
11. Flood hazard overlay – Chapter 19.69A JCC.
12. Historic resources – Chapter 19.94 JCC.
13. Mineral and aggregate resources – See JCC 19.72.040 and Chapter 19.91 JCC.
14. Parking – See Chapter 19.75 JCC.
15. RV parks, lodges and campgrounds – See Chapter 19.98 JCC.
16. Signs – See Chapter 19.74 JCC.
17. Solid waste – See Chapter 19.86 JCC.
18. Stream setbacks – See Chapter 19.72 JCC.
19. Utilities – See Chapter 19.85 JCC.
20. Water hazard overlay – See Chapter 19.69E JCC.
21. Water standards – See Chapter 19.84 JCC.
22. Wild and scenic rivers overlay – See Chapter 19.69C JCC. [Amended by Planning Director, 10-28-16; 2005 RLDC § 63.050.]