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City of Tukwila
6200 Southcenter Boulevard
Tukwila Washington 98188
Frank Todd, Mayor
Grubb F, Ellis Commercial Brokerage Co.
2031 Third Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
Attn: Roger Ahroon
Subject: St. Regis Paper Co. Proposal
4 August 1981
In response to your letter of 3 August 1981, you have asked for an
interpretation of zoning regulations in regard to the proposed plastic
bag manufacturing operation contemplated by St. Regis in the Southcenter
South Industrial Park. I will try to summarize the pertinent facts:
A) As you know, Southcenter South is zoned M -2 (heavy industry), but
is limited to M -1 (light industry) uses only by stipulation of
the park's Shoreline Management Permit.
B) TMC 18.42.010 (30) permits the following use in the M -2 zone:
"Manufacture, assembly of processing - any of the following pro-
ducts... plastics and plastic products"
C) St. Regis, we understand, intends to manufacture a plastic bag
product from pre - manufactured chemical plastic material. Based on
these facts, the Planning Director has determined that the pro-
posed St. Regis Paper. Company operation is not an allowed use
under Southcenter South's current zoning status.
D) Two alternatives are open to the property owner with regard to
opening the site to the use which St. Regis desires:
Do nothing and allow the City to rezone the site to the C -
(industrial park) classification and modify the text of the
zoning ordinance to allow plastic materials processing in the C -M
district. If Draft Zoning Ordinance #4 and its concomittant
zoning map, now in hearings before the City Council, are adopted as
they now exist, then the St. Regis operation will become a per-
mitted use in that location and the current zoning problem will
"go- away ". The disadvantages of this alternative are a) we have no
assurance at this point that the zoning text or map will not change
to St. Regis' disadvantage between now and the time of adoption
b) we have no way of predicting at this time when the new ordinance
will actually take effect, as potential lawsuits or injunctions
may delay its implementation even after it is formally enacted
by the City Council.
Intitiate an application to amend the park's existing Shoreline
Management Permit restoring full M -2 use of that particular site.
The disadvantages of this approach are a) the minimum 90 -day
time -frame required to process a Shoreline Management Permit
b) we cannot assure you that a favorable decision will result.
Further, there may be legal complications in changing the M -1
use restriction relative to previous private covenants of sale
within the Southceri.ter South complex which would preclude amending
the Shoreline Permit.
You have also asked that I comment on the fact that the Cello -Bag Company
is operating a plastics- processing plant similar to that proposed by St.
Regis in an M -1 zoning district. The Cello -Bag plant opened . in 1963
according to our records. The M• -2 zoning ordinance as it now appears in
the iNC was adopted seven years later 1970. Whether the Cello -Bag opera -
tion predated our zoning code and is therefore a legal, non - conforming use,
or the City Supervisor in 1963 formally interpreted zoning regulations then
in force as allowing plastics processing in M -1 in unclear. In any case,
staff is obligated to interpret the Zoning Code today irrespective of past
irregularities. Thus, we conclude that the Cello -Bag operation has little
relevance to the question before us concerning St. Regis Paper.
I hope that this information clarifies the City's position as requested in
your August third letter.
MC/b lk
Tukwila Planning Department
Brad Collins, Director
I�t�ar'k Cattghey
Associate Planner
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