Section 25.66.070 Conditional uses.

The following industrial uses may be permitted in the MH zone subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit as provided in Subchapter III of Chapter 25.12 and subject to the standards hereinafter set forth:

1. Industrial Conditional Uses Which May Be Authorized.

a. Animal slaughtering, stockyards or holding pens;

b. Rendering of dead animals or slaughter by-products;

c. Sewage treatment plants, animal manure processing;

d. Power plants, solid waste energy recovery plant, solid waste transfer stations, solid waste recycling plants;

e. Manufacture of industrial inorganic and organic chemicals, including alkalies and chlorines, industrial and medical gases, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals and pesticides, poisons;

f. Manufacture of plastics, synthetic resins, nonvulcanizable elastomers, synthetic rubber, man-made fibers, adhesives, explosives, pyrotechnics;

g. Processing of asphaltic paving mixtures, ready-mix portland cement concrete;

h. Manufacturing of tires and tubes, rubber reclaiming;

j. Manufacture of primary ferrous metals and primary nonferrous metals, foundries, secondary smelting, junkyards and secondary metal salvage and processing, auto salvage yards;

k. Fabricated steel plate work, metal stamping, forging;

l. Storage above ground of flammable or noxious chemicals, fuels or gases in excess of five million cubic feet on any one zoning lot of less than one acre or two million cubic feet in any one tank;

n. Processing or manufacturing activities conducted in the open which are impractical, because of size, to be carried on in an enclosed building.

2. Standards for Industrial Conditional Uses. The board of adjustment shall not authorize an industrial conditional use in the MH zone unless it makes written findings that:

a. The performance standards set forth for the MH zone will be met;

b. A three-hundred-foot setback from any residential zone will be provided;

c. The proposed site is so located and of sufficient size that it will not interfere with the development of adjacent and nearby properties due to offensive odors, noise and visual qualities or that the plan provide features which will minimize such impacts;

d. If the proposed development involves a significant amount of vehicular traffic the plans provide features which will minimize traffic congestion caused by the development. (Ord. S-35239, 1977; S-30424, 1976)