HomeMy WebLinkAbouttwinfallsid-id-1 (23) 10-4-10: M2, HEAVY MANUFACTURING DISTRICT:
10-4-10.1: PURPOSE:
This district is intended to provide industrial users ample room in the city to develop and expand without encroachment by
noncompatible uses. (Ord. 2526, 5-20-1996)
10-4-10.2: USE REGULATIONS:
(A) Permitted Uses: Buildings, structures or premises shall be used and buildings and structures shall hereafter be
erected, altered or enlarged only for the following uses:
1. Agricultural:
a. Farms-animals on pasture.
b. Farms-fish.
c. Farms- plants and trees.
d. Intensive agricultural units of five (5)acres or more without residential facilities.
2. Agricultural processing:
a. Dairy product processing.
b. Fish, meat and poultry processing.
c. Grain and seed processing.
d. Livestock sales.
3. Communications and utilities:
a. Radio and television stations without transmission and receiving towers.
b. Telegraph centers and telegraph stations.
c. Telephone exchange stations.
d. Underground and aboveground transmission lines.
e. Utility owned buildings and structures less than twenty five (25)square feet in area and less than three feet(T)
aboveground.
4. Cultural Facilities:
a. Botanical gardens and arboretums.
b. Cemeteries.
c. Historic sites and monuments.
d. Libraries, museums and art galleries.
e. Planetariums and aquariums.
5. Governmental Facilities:
a. City, County, highway district-open storage yards.
b. City, County, highway district-shops.
c. Fire stations and police stations.
d. Governmental office buildings.
e. Jails, detention centers, work release centers.
f. Judicial facilities.
g. Water treatment plants.
6. Manufacturing:
a. Apparel and related items.
b. Building materials.
c. Concrete products.
d. Food products.
e. Furniture and fixtures.
f. Handcrafted furniture.
g. Metal products.
h. Miscellaneous products.
i. Paper products.
j. Petroleum products.
k. Plastic products.
I. Professional and scientific products.
m. Rubber products.
n. Sand and gravel yards.
o. Textile products.
7. Medical Facilities:
a. Acupuncture facilities approved by the South Central District Health Department or other State regulatory agency.
b. Ambulance service.
c. Animal hospital - large animals.
d. Animal hospital -small animals.
e. Doctors' offices.
f. Drug and alcohol treatment centers.
g. Prosthetics-sales, service and/or construction.
h. Rehabilitation services.
8. Parks:
a. Open space.
b. Park concessions.
c. Private parks and playgrounds without crowd-attracting facilities.
d. Public parks and playgrounds without crowd attracting facilities.
e. Public parks and playgrounds with crowd attracting facilities.
9. Public Assembly:
a. Auditoriums.
b. Exhibition halls.
c. Fairgrounds.
d. Funeral chapels.
e. Religious facilities.
f. Schools- private, single purpose.
g. Schools- private, vocational and/or academic.
h. Sports arena.
i. Wedding chapels and/or reception halls.
10. Residential:
a. Home occupations.
b. Household units existing at the time this Title was adopted.
c. Household units in the same buildings as an allowed use and occupied by the owner or an employee of the
allowed use.
11. Retail Trade:
a. Apparel and accessories.
b. Automobile and truck sales and/or rentals.
c. Automobile parts store.
d. Bakery.
e. Bookstore.
f. Car wash facilities.
g. Commercial greenhouses.
h. Craft shop, in conjunction with retail business.
i. Eating places.
j. Equipment rental.
k. Farm and garden supplies.
I. Florist shop.
m. Food, drugs, etc.
n. Fuel sales (bulk).
o. Gasoline service stations.
p. General merchandise.
q. Hardware store.
r. Hobby and toy store.
s. Home furnishings and equipment.
t. Ice cream store.
u. Import store.
v. Large implement and heavy equipment sales and/or rentals.
w. Laundering and dry-cleaning.
x. Laundromats.
y. Lumber, plumbing and/or electrical supply stores.
z. Manufactured/mobile home sales and/or rentals.
aa. Music store.
bb. Pawnshop.
cc. Permitted retail/trade uses operating outside the hours of seven o'clock(7:00)A.M. to ten o'clock(10:00) P.M.
dd. Pet shop.
ee. Sporting goods store.
ff. Sporting vehicles and motorcycles-sales and/or rentals.
gg. Storage unit rentals.
hh. Taxidermy studio.
ii. Tire shops.
jj. Truck stop.
12. Services:
a. Advertising.
b. Apparel repair and alteration.
c. Appliance repair.
d. Beauty and barber shops.
e. Building care contracting offices.
f. Business associations.
g. Civic, social and fraternal organizations.
h. Construction trade offices.
i. Construction yards.
j. Consumer credit collection offices.
k. Copy center-self-service.
I. Dog grooming and/or kennels.
m. Duplicating and stenographic offices.
n. Employment agency.
o. Finance and investment offices.
p. Furniture repair/upholstery.
q. Horticultural services.
r. Insurance and related business.
s. Labor unions and organizations.
t. Photography studios.
u. Professional organizations.
v. Professional services.
w. Publishing and printing business.
x. Real estate and related business.
y. Sporting vehicle and motorcycle service and/or repair.
z. Testing laboratories.
aa. Tourist information center.
bb. Welfare and charitable facilities.
13. Sports Facilities:
a. Athletic areas.
b. Go-cart tracks.
c. Miniature golf courses.
d. Racetracks.
14. Transportation:
a. Bus facilities, including pick up shelters.
b. Freight transfer points.
c. Open parking lot or garage for automobiles.
d. Open parking lot or garage for trucks and buses.
e. Open parking lot or garage for trucks and equipment.
f. Packing and crating.
g. Railroad buildings, equipment and yards.
h. Taxicab office.
i. Ticket and arrangement facilities.
j. Trucking facilities.
15. Wholesale:
a. Wholesale distribution and warehousing, but excluding H-1 and H-7(2)facilities.
Notwithstanding the foregoing list of permitted uses, any such proposed use which broadcasts amplified music or sound by
speakers to the exterior of a building shall also require a special use permit. (Ord. 2620, 8-2-1999; amd. Ord. 2635, 10-12-
1999; Ord. 2741, 11-4-2002; Ord. 2773, 12-15-2003; Ord. 2999, 1-24-2011)
(B) Special Uses: A special use permit may be granted for a permanent use that is not in conflict with the comprehensive
plan and that is not permitted outright because it may conflict with other uses in the district unless special provisions are
taken. Special use permits may be granted for the following uses:
1. Communications and utilities:
a. Radio and television stations with wireless communications facilities.
b. Utility owned buildings and structures more than twenty five (25)square feet in area or more than three feet(3')
aboveground.
2. Cultural facilities:
a. Zoos.
3. Governmental facilities:
a. Sewage treatment plants.
4. Manufacturing:
a. Chemicals and chemical products (H-1 and H-7(2))facilities not closer than three hundred feet(300')to a dwelling
but excluding the residential uses allowed by subsections (A)10c and (B)9a of this section.
b. Recycling centers.
c. Wrecking yards, automobile salvage yards and junkyards, but prohibited within canyons, within two hundred feet
(200')of canyon rims and on land with slopes greater than fifteen percent(15%)grade.
5. Medical facilities:
a. Hospitals and clinics.
6. Miscellaneous:
a. Any facility with drive-through service.
7. Parks:
a. Amusement parks.
8. Public assembly:
a. Schools- public.
b. Theaters- indoor.
c. Theaters-outdoor.
9. Residential:
a. Mobile homes, if accessory to and located on the same property of an allowed use and occupied by the owner or
an employee of the allowed use.
10. Retail trade:
a. Alcoholic beverages when consumed on the premises where sold.
b. Automobile and recreational vehicle rental/storage yard.
11. Services:
a. Auctions and/or public sales.
b. Daycare services.
c. In home daycare services.
d. Tattoo parlors or dermagraphic studios approved by the South Central district health department or other state
regulatory agency.
e. Automobile and truck service and/or repair.
f. Automobile impound facility.
12. Sports facilities:
a. Golf courses and country clubs.
b. Golf driving ranges.
c. Gun clubs.
d. Indoor recreation facility.
e. Outdoor, public and commercial ice and roller skating facilities.
f. Outdoor, public and commercial swimming pools.
g. Outdoor public and commercial tennis courts.
h. Sport shooting range- indoor.
13. Wholesale:
a. H-1 and H-7(2)facilities not closer than three hundred feet(300')to a dwelling but excluding the residential uses
allowed by subsections (A)10c and (B)9a of this section.
(C) Prohibited Uses: Uses not specified above are prohibited unless administrative determination in accordance with
subsection 10-17-1(F)of this title is made that the use is similar enough to a use listed above that distinction between them
is of little consequence. (Ord. 2526, 5-20-1996; amd. Ord. 2635, 11-15-1999; Ord. 2741, 11-4-2002; Ord. 2773, 12-15-2003;
Ord. 2999, 1-24-2011; Ord. 2021-010, 5-3-2021)
10-4-10.3: PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS:
The following property development standards shall apply to all land and buildings in the M2 district:
(A) Lot Area:
1. Nonresidential Uses: The lot area shall be of sufficient size to provide for the building, the required setbacks, off
street parking and landscaping.
2. Residential Uses: Residential uses not attached to an allowed use shall provide the minimum lot area of the R6
district.
(B) Lot Occupancy:
1. Commercial Uses: No requirement.
2. Residential Uses: Same as that in the R6 district.
(C) Building Height: No building shall exceed fifty feet(50') in height except as provided by section10-7-3 of this title.
(Ord. 2526, 5-20-1996)
(D) Yards: Front yards shall conform to the following standards, or section10-7-6 of this title, whichever is greater: (Ord.
2773, 12-15-2003)
1. Commercial Uses: No property line setbacks are required on side and rear yards. Setbacks on arterial frontages
shall be thirty five feet(35')from property line and fifteen feet(15)on other streets. In developed areas which have building
lines already established, this requirement may be reviewed and adjusted by the commission. A gasoline service station
pump island, including cashier's booths, and canopy setback may be less than the required thirty five foot(35) property line
setback on arterial streets, providing the property line setback is not less than thirty feet(30')for a pump island nor less than
twenty feet(20')for the outer part of a canopy. Gasoline service station pump islands, including cashier's booths, and
canopies, shall not be used to adjust setbacks in developed areas which have building lines already established.
2. Residential Uses: Residential uses shall conform to the yard standards of the R6 district.
(E) Access: All lots shall have vehicular access on a dedicated improved public street with a fifty foot(50') minimum right
of way unless a secondary means of permanent vehicular access has been approved on a subdivision plat.
(F) Landscaping:
1. Nonresidential uses shall provide landscaping equal to two (2)square feet per linear foot of frontage and shall be
placed between the building and the street. This requirement may be waived by the commission for existing facilities where
buildings exist with zero setback on street frontages.
2. Household units not attached to nonresidential uses: No requirement.
(G) Off-Street Parking:
1. Each nonresidential use shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 10 of this Title.
2. Residential uses shall provide two (2) parking spaces for each residential unit.
3. Residential units in commercial buildings shall provide one off-street parking space for each dwelling unit in the
building.
(H) Signs: See Chapter 9 of this Title. (Ord. 2526, 5-20-1996)
(1) Walls, Fences, Hedges, Trees, Shrubs And Landscaping Structures: Walls, fences, hedges, trees, shrubs and
landscaping structures shall be permitted on the property line or within the required side or rear yard and shall be permitted
in the front yard with the following restriction: no wall, fence, hedge, trees, shrubs or landscaping structures shall be placed
within public rights of way without first obtaining written approval from the City. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all walls,
fences, hedges, trees, shrubs and landscaping structures shall comply with the provisions of Section 9-9-16 of this Code.
(Ord. 2550, 6-2-1997)
(J) H-1 Facilities: H-1 facilities shall be secured at all times from trespass by unauthorized persons. (Ord. 2526, 5-20-
1996)
10-4-19: CRO, CANYON RIMS OVERLAY DISTRICT:
10-4-19.1: PURPOSES:
The purposes of the canyon rims overlay district are as follows:
(A) To protect the public and private property owners from the natural hazards of rock fall and slope failure along the
Snake River Canyon and Rock Creek Canyon.
(B) To protect views and create a unique visual environment along the canyon rims.
(C) To preserve and improve the aesthetic appearance of the canyon rims for the enhancement of the quality of life in the
community.
(D) To provide development standards that enhance the value of canyon rim areas to the developer and the community.
(Ord. 2022-017, 9-12-2022)
10-4-19.2: LOCATION:
The canyon rims overlay district shall include all of that area within the city and its area of impact located within two hundred
feet(200')of the Rock Creek Canyon rim and within seven hundred feet(700')of the Snake River Canyon rim which carries
a residential or C-1 zoning designation. (Ord. 2526, 5-20-1996; Ord. 2022-017, 9-12-2022)
10-4-19.3: PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS:
The following property development standards shall apply to all land and buildings in the canyon rims overlay district:
(A) Lot Area: Same as the basic zoning district upon which the overlay is placed.
(B) Lot Occupancy: Same as the basic zoning district upon which the overlay is placed.
(C) Building Height:
1. Within the Cl Zoning District: No building shall exceed maximum building height of Twenty-five feet(25') in height
measured at fifty linear feet(50')from the canyon rim and rising evenly to thirty-five feet(35') in height measured at one
hundred linear feet(100')from the canyon rim, and thereafter rising evenly to fifty feet(50') in height measured at one
hundred fifty linear feet(150')from the canyon rim.
2. All other applicable Districts: No building shall exceed maximum building height of Twenty-five feet(25') in height
measured at fifty linear feet(50')from the canyon rim and rising evenly to thirty-five feet(35') in height measured at one
hundred linear feet(100')from the canyon rim.
3. All heights are to be measured from the existing canyon rim elevation, or the existing ground level elevation at the
building site, whichever elevation is greater.
4. Additional Height: Additional height may be requested for those areas beyond the fifty-foot(50')Canyon Rim
Setback. See Additional Building Height Process City Code 10-7-3.
(D) Building Setbacks:
1. Yards: Same as that of the basic zoning district upon which the overlay is placed.
2. Geological Report: The minimum canyon rim setback in the CRO district shall be one hundred feet(100')without a
geological report meeting the following requirements:
a. The name, address, and telephone number of the responsible Idaho licensed geological engineer;
b. The qualifications of the Idaho licensed geological engineer, including a list of similar studies and references;
c. A certificate of professional liability insurance for the individual or firm preparing the report;
d. A location map, showing the relation of the site studied to the surrounding area, including the topography and
drainage pattern of that area, and the location of any off site observations (wells, soil observation pits, etc.) used in
preparing the findings of the report;
e. A parcel map, showing the parcel boundaries, the proposed canyon rim setback, building envelope, or building
location, the proposed location of any on site sewage disposal facilities, any watercourses or drainageways across or
adjacent to the parcel, and the location of any soil observation pits, wells, or other observations used in preparing the
findings of the report;
f. A description of the geologic setting of the parcel;
g. A description of the methods used to arrive at the findings, including the sampling procedure used to determine the
sites used for observations; and
h. A clear statement that buildings behind the proposed canyon rim setback, within the proposed envelope, or at the
proposed building location are not subject to significant hazard from slope movements and that construction on the site will
not present a significant hazard to people or properties.
i. The findings shall be qualified, as necessary, with recommendations for site stabilization, drainage, and building
construction techniques or specifications that will minimize any potential hazard.
j. The information used as a basis for the findings may be integrated with the findings or presented separately.
3. Canyon Rim Setback: The minimum canyon rim setback in the CRO district with a geological report meeting the
requirements set forth above shall be either the minimum setback recommended in the geological report or the minimum
setback set out below, whichever is greater:
a. Rock Creek Canyon: Fifty feet(50').
b. Snake River Canyon from Rock Creek Canyon to the centerline of 3300 East, extended: Fifty feet(50').
c. Snake River Canyon east of the centerline of 3300 East, extended: One hundred feet(100').
(E) Landscaping: Overall, twenty percent(20%)of the total area included in any commercial or mixed-use development
in the canyon rims overlay district shall be devoted to landscaped open space. That space shall meet the requirements of
section of this title and shall include the following elements:
1. Street Buffers: Commercial uses shall provide a minimum thirty foot(30') landscaped buffer along arterial and
collector streets. Residential uses shall provide a minimum fifty foot(50') landscaped buffer along arterial streets.
2. Use Buffers: There shall be a minimum fifty foot(50') landscaped buffer between residential and commercial
elements of a mixed-use canyon rims overlay district development.
3. Use Of Buffers: Roads and utilities may cross landscaped buffers, sidewalks and trails may run-through them, and
permitted freestanding signs and minor utility installations may be based in them.
4. Parking Areas: Parking areas including twenty-four(24)or more spaces shall be broken into separate bays by
landscaped areas and pedestrian walks that comprise at least ten percent(10%)of the area devoted to parking.
5. Canyon Rim Setback Area: The canyon rim setback area may be included as part of the twenty percent(20%)
landscaping requirement if the area is landscaped to meet the minimum requirements of subsection (A)of this title or if
planted with native vegetation.
(F) Signs: See the sign code in of this title.
(G) Additional Development Standards:
1. Form: Buildings that have a footprint of more than three thousand (3,000)square feet shall be designed to reduce
their apparent mass using one or more of the following techniques:
a. Varying Height: Buildings may be "stepped back" in height from the setback line to reduce their apparent mass and
visual competition with the canyon wall.
b. Varying Setback: The building line facing the canyon rim may be varied (i.e., different portions of the building
would be different distances from the setback line).
c. Landscaping: Mass plantings and earthworks can be designed and sited to effectively break the apparent mass of
a building.
2. Outdoor Sales And Storage: There shall be no outdoor sales or display areas in the canyon rims overlay district. All
outdoor storage, including solid waste containers, shall be fully screened from public view by some combination of location
on the site, fences or walls, and landscaped buffers. (Ord. 2526, 5-20-1996; Ord. 2851, 3-6-2006; Ord. 3005, 6-6-2011; Ord.
3082, 12-8-2014; Ord. 2022-017, 9-12-2022)