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Light Industrial Zone

Light industrial zone (I-L). The I-L zone is intended to accommodate certain industrial structures and uses having physical and operational characteristics which might adversely affect the economic welfare of adjoining residential and commercial uses. These purposes are accomplished by:

1. Allowing a range of general service and light industrial uses which can be operated in a relatively clean, quiet and safe manner compatible with adjoining industrial uses and without serious effect, danger or hazard to nearby residential uses; 2. Providing for eating and drinking establishments that serve other permitted uses in the zone; 3. Providing for offices as an accessory use; 4. Providing design standards and guidelines that enhance the appearance and function of uses in the zone and their compatibility with surrounding uses; 5. Promoting mixed-use residential as a secondary use in areas identified as industrial residential in the comprehensive plan; and 6. Use of this zone is appropriate for areas designated light industrial or industrial residential in the comprehensive plan.

Allowed Uses

RESIDENTIAL ACCESSORY USES:
Home occupations

RETAIL:
Automobile Fueling
Automobile, EV charging station
Heavy retail
Nurseries and greenhouses
Restaurants
Bars and brewpubs
Coffee house, espresso bar
Regional retail commercial projects ¹

PERSONAL AND GENERAL SERVICE:
Day care I facilities
Heavy services
Kennels
Cannabis cooperative
Laundromats and dry cleaners
Places of assembly ²
Radio station (commercial) ²
Veterinary clinic ²

BUSINESS SERVICE:
Offices, business or professional, small scale (less than 2,000 SF floor area) ³
Offices, business or professional, medium scale (between 2,000 and 20,000 SF floor area)
Offices, business or professional, large scale (between 20,001 and 60,000 SF floor area)
Miniwarehouse facility ²

INDUSTRIAL:
Light manufacturing
Light industry
Hazardous waste treatment (off-site) ²
Hazardous waste treatment (on-site) ²
Cannabis processor
Cannabis producer
Tow vehicle storage area

PARK, OPEN SPACE AND RECREATIONAL:
Recreation, outdoor (commercial) ²
Recreation, indoor (commercial) ²
Recreation, small-scale indoor studios (commercial) ²
Parks and playgrounds (public or private) ⁴

CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENT:
Art, performing arts, and recording studios
Museums
Theaters ²

GOVERNMENTAL:
Fire facility
Police facility
Public agency or utility office
Public agency or utility yard
Utility facility
Public transportation passenger terminals

RESOURCE:
Gardening or fruit raising (accessory use or noncommercial)
Small wind energy systems

Note 1: Regional retail is administered as an overlay zone pursuant to chapters 15.390 and 15.390A ECC, and only permitted within the designated boundaries identified in figure 15.390.040(A), the south interchange area, and figure 15.390.040(B), the west interchange area. Permitted uses and use restrictions within a regional retail commercial project are described in ECC 15.390.030. Design criteria for regional retail is governed by chapter 15.390A ECC.

Note 2: Subject to Conditional Use review procedures

Note 3: Office uses that are accessory to a permitted use.

Note 4: Lighting for structures and fields shall be directed away from residential areas through the use of exterior full cut-off shields or through optics within the fixture.

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