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Cover page to Ordinance 524
The full text of the ordinance follows this cover page.
An 3. nance amending O n ce 251, Section 4-4A,
Section le-20, :Section 4-25, Section 4 -26 and
Section 4 -31
Ordinance 524 was amended or repealed by the
following ordinances.
AMENDED BY: REPEALED BY:
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ORDINANCE NO. __47.42_4__V
An Ordinance amending Ordinance 251, Section 4-0.
Section 4-20, Section 4-25, Section 4 -26 and
Section 4 -31
WHEREAS, after intensive research by members of the Planning Commission
and City Council certain revisions in Ordinance 251 have been deemed necessary, and
WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission and the City Council have both held
Public Hearings pursuant to the City of Tukwila Ordinance No. 251, as amended, and
both bodies have recommended that said changes be made.
NOT, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Tukwila do ordain as
follows:
CHAPTER 4 LAND USE DISTRICTS
SECTION 4-4A DISTRICT R.M.H. MUTIPLE RESIDENCE HIGH DENSITY
SUB SECTION -PARKING REGULATIONS is amended to read as follows:
1. Hotels and Motels 1'I space for each bedroom, plus adequate parking for special
eating, banquet or entertainment facilities.
2. Apartment Houses 3 for each 2 dwellings units.
SECTION 4-20 OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING REGULATIONS is amended by adding
the following paragraph:
SCREENING Off street loading and parking facilities shall be arranged to provide
partial screaning from public rights -of -way and adjacent residential use areas by
means of decorative walls and /or evergreen landscaping, and /or other parts of the
building. Screening shall be at least 3/4 as high as truck projection above average
surrounding ground elevation.
SECTION 4-20 OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING REGULATIONS
'SUB- SECTION PARKING FOR ONE TO FOUR FAMILY DWELLINGS is-amended to read as follows:
For all one, two, three or four family dwellings hereafter erected, or for any buildings
converted to such use or occupancy, provisions shall be made on the premises, in the
side yard and /or rear yard onl or in a garage or carport, for the parking of
passenger motor vehicles for the use of the occupants. Such parking area shall
provide space for two passenger motor vehicles for each family unit. Ho commercial
trucks over 8000 lbs gross vehicle weight, machinery, bulldozers, or similar construction
equipment shall be allowed to be sLored in a residential zone„
For any residence having roomers or boarders, and for boarding and rooming houses,
provision shall be made in the side yard and /or rear yard only, for one parking space
for each boarder or lodger, in addition to the requirements above for one, two,
three and four family dwellings.
SECTION 4-20 OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING REGULATIONS
SUB SECTION PARKING FOR APARTIdTS is amended to read as follows:
1. NE6'I STRUCTURES On —site facilities for the storage or parking of passenger motor
vehicles for the use of the occupants of apartments shall be provided or maintained on
the basis of three (3) spaces for each two (2) units, or fraction thereof. Parking
areas are to be located in side or rear yards only. Screening shall be provided by
the following methods, singularly or in combination:
a. A four foot high fence, of decorative and permanent character.
b. A maintained planting strip of hardy evergreen shrubbery, which
will provide dense uniform growth, four to six feet high within two
(2) years of planting.
c. k four foot berm, or equivalent change in grade, covered with
maintained evergreen ground cover plantings. Where auxiliary parking
areas within 500 feet of the immediate area of the building are
developed, they shall meet requirements of Section 4-6, for zone
R —P, Use Regulations, paragraphs 2a, 2b, 2c, and 2d, except screening
shall be as described in this section.
All parking. areas shall have specific entrance and /or exit areas to the street, each
with a maximum width of 24 feet at the property line; edge of curb cut or access
shall be no closer than 20 feet from a corner property line.
Maintained dense screen plantings shall be only 2 feet high, 20 feet from a corner
where two street intersect. No. trucks shall be parked on a lot in an apartment
zone except for deliveries; trailers, boats, campers, or similar equipment shall
be parked in side and read yard areas only, and screened by a 4 foot high fence of
decorative and permanent character.
2. CONVERTED STRUCTURES OR EXISTING STRUCTURES NHICH ARE REI•'lODELED OR ALTERED.
The parking requirements shall be the same as described for New Structures.
3. EXCEPTIONS OR MODIFICATIONS
The Planning Commission may make an exception to any of the above requirements
upon showing by an applicant at a public hearing of any unnecessary hardship or
practical difficulty constituting an unreasonable deprivation of use, as distinguished
from merely granting a privilege.
4. EINIMUM SPACE ALLOTMENT
The minimum area provided for parking of passenger cars shall be 350 square feet,
with a minimum stall width of eight foot six inches.
Trucks and specialized commercial or indistrial vehicles shall be provided with
sufficient space to park and maneuver without use of public right -of -way.
SECTION 4-25 REQUESTS FOR CHANGES IN ZONING is amended to read as follows:
Any request for a change in zoning of any district or area, or of any boundary
lines thereof as shown on the zoning maps (as distinguished from a variance or
modification, in a specific case, of the application of any of the rules or
regulations or provisions of this chapter relating to the use, construction or alteration
of buildings or structures, or to the use of land, because of practical difficulties
or unnecessary handships), shall be submitted to the City Planning Commission, through
the office of the City Clerk. Said requests shall be made on such formal application
forms as specified by the Planning Commission and all supporting data deemed pertinent
by the Planning Commission shall be supplied by the petitioner along with a $100.00
filing fee payable to the City of Tukwila.
After due public notice and hearing at which parties in interest and citizens shall
have an opportunity to be heard, the Planning Commission shall transmit its recommendations
thereon to the City Council along with any necessary covenants or agreements which have
been fully executed by the petitioner.
Upon receipt of all necessary documents and the recommendations of the Planning
Commission, the City Council may act on said recommendation without further public
hearing.
Any person or persons jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the Planning
Commission may file a petition for review by the City Council of any Planning Commission
recommendation within 10 days after such Planning Commission neeting wherein said
recommendation was made.
Upon receiving Notice of Appeal the Council shall set a date for hearing of the
subject and shall notify the parties it deems most concerned. Three (3) notices, at
least ten (10) days prior to any such hearing, shall be posted within or about the
area proposed to be rezoned or reclassified. Following this hearing the Council may
follow the recommendation of the Commission or refer the subject to the Commission for
their reconsideration and subsequent report to the Council, upon receipt of which the
Council shall take final action, granting or denying reclassification within thirty
(30) days thereafter.
SECTION 4-26 CHANGES INITI:4'L D BY CITY PLANNING COfl1ISSION is amend to read:
The City Planning Commission, may on its own initiative, after due public notice
and hearing at which parties in interest and citizens may have an opportunity to
be heard, cause to be prepared and introduced in the City Council an ordinance
recommending the altering or changing of the use, height or area restrictions as
provided in this chapter.
SECTION 4 -31 VARIANCES
Paragraph 3 is amended to read as follows:
3. Such petitions shall be submitted to or referred to the City Planning Co maisiion.
The City Planning Commission, upon payment of a $75.00 filing fee by the petitioner, and
after due public notice and hearing at which parties in interest and citizens shall
have an opportunity to be heard, shall transmit its recommendations thereon to the
City Council.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Tukwila, Washington this 1? t
day of 0.4e.,cY ,!z 1968.
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Tukwila, Washington this day
of (2LLee 1968.
MAYOR
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