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ORDINANCE NO. 635 5'
AN ORDINANCE amending certain sections of the
Zoning Code in Chapter 18 (Ordinance 251) of
the Tukwila Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TUKWILA:
Section 1. Chapter 18.06.040 Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 251 Ch. 3 (part), 1957), is hereby amended to read as
follows:
APARTMENT HOUSE is any building, or portion thereof,
which is designed, built, rented, leased, let or hired out to be
occupied, or which is occupied as the home or residence of five
(5) or more families living independently of each other and doing
their own cooking in the said building, and shall include flats
and apartments.
Section 2. There is added to Chapter 18.06 Tukwila
Municipal Code, a new section to read as follows:
GRADE (Adjacent Ground Elevation) is the lowest point of
elevation of the finished surface of the ground between the exterior
wall of a building and a point five feet (5') distant from said wall,
or the lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground
between the exterior wall of a building and the property line, if it
is less than five feet (5') distant from said wall. In case walls
are parallel to and within five feet (5') of a public sidewalk, alley,
or other public way, the grade shall be the elevation of the side-
walk, alley or public way.
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Section 3. Chapter 18.06.560 (Ord. 251 Ch. 3 (part),
1957) is hereby repealed.
Section 4. Chapter 18.06.610 (Ord. 251 Ch. 3 (part),
1957) is hereby amended to read as follows:
SHELTER STATION means a shelter for the protection from
the elements for the waiting customers of a public transportation
system.
Section 5. Chapter 18.06.650 (Ord. 251 Ch. 3 (part)
1957) is hereby amended to read as follows:
STORY is that portion of a building included between the
upper surface of any floor and the upper surface of the floor next
above, except that the topmost story shall be that portion of a
building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor and
the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor level directly
above a basement, cellar or unused underfloor space is more than six
feet (6') above grade as defined herein for more than fifty percent
of the total perimeter or is more than twelve feet (12') above grade
as defined herein at any point, such basement or unused underfloor
space shall be considered as a story.
Section 6. Chapter 18.12.050 (2) Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 251 4 -1 (part), 1957) concerning community garages is hereby
repealed.
Section 7. There is added to Chapter 18.28 Tukwila
Municipal Code a new section to read as follows:
SCREENING, special landscaped areas and setbacks shall be
the same as provided for in Chapter 18.56.
Section 8. There is added to Chapter 18.28 Tukwila
Municipal Code a new section to read as follows:
Parking regulations shall be as provided for in Chapter
18.56.
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Section 9. There is added to Chapter 18.30 Tukwila
Municipal Code a new section to read as follows:
Screening, special landscaped areas and setbacks shall
be the same as provided for in Chapter 18.56.
Section 10. Chapter 18.32.020 (b) Tukwila Municipal
Code, (Ord. 251 94 -12 (part), 1957) is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Waste disposal shall be by a method or methods approved
by the Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency, or any other
governmental body having jurisdiction thereover.
Section 11. Chapter 18.32.030 (b) Tukwila Municipal
Code (Ord. 251 94 -12 (part), 1957) is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Outdoor storage shall not exceed twenty (20) feet in
height, and shall be screened from abutting public streets and
from adjacent properties. Such screens shall be a minimum of
eight feet high, and not less than 60% of the height of the material
stored.
Section 12. Chapter 18.38 Tukwila Municipal Code (Ord.
251 94 -8 (part), 1957) is hereby repealed.
Section 13. There is added to Chapter 18.40 Tukwila
Municipal Code, a new section to read as follows:
Screening, special landscaped areas and setbacks shall be
the same as provided for in Chapter 18.56.
Section 14. Chapter 18.42.010 (7) Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 253 (part), 1958: Ord 251 94 -30 (part), 1957 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
(7) Auto salvage or auto wrecking yards, provided the
operation is carried on within a building completely enclosed with
walls and roof or within a yard, enclosed on all sides, except on
a side or portion of a side abutting a building, by a solid wall or
fence at least ten (10) feet high. The Planning Commission may
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modify the above requirements where railroad tracks adjoin or enter
the property. There shall be only one opening in the wall or fence
facing any public street or alley, for each two hundred (200) feet
of length the opening shall not exceed thirty (30) feet in width,
and shall be provided with a gate or door which must be kept closed
whenever the establishment is closed for business. The nearest
point of the property shall be at least three hundred fifty (350)
feet distant from the boundary of any other use district.
Section 15. There is added to Chapter 18.42 Tukwila Mun-
icipal Code, a new section to read as follows:
Screening, special landscaped areas and setbacks shall be
the same as provided for in Chapter 18.56.
Section 16. There is added to Chapter 18.56, Tukwila Mun-
icipal Code, a new section entitled, "Off- Street Parking and Load-
ing Regulations and Screening Requirements," to read as follows:
In addition to the screening and landscaping required in
other parts of the zoning ordinance, special setbacks, planting and
screening shall be required in C -1, C -2, M -1, M -2 and C -M use dis-
tricts when developing adjacent to or across a public way from exist-
ing C -M, C -P, R -M -H, R -4, R -3, R -2 and R -1 use districts or land uses
as follows:
1. A solid screen planting and /or decorative obscuring
fence six feet (6') high shall be provided along the boundaries of
the C -1, C -2, M -1 and M -2 use districts. Except at streets, where
landscape or treatment shall be as described in paragraph 4 hereunder.
2. A setback of fifteen feet (15'), landscaped, shall be
provided on the street or public way frontages; this setback to be
measured from the minimum building setback line, where no front
yard is otherwise required.
3. Outside storage shall comply with C -M requirements except
that screening shall consist of a decorative obscuring fence and /or a
solid screen planting of evergreens. In areas adjacent to residential
uses no outside storage shall be permitted.
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4. Utility easements and areas between property lines
and curbing shall be landscaped and /or treated with dust and
erosion control planting or surfacing such as low growing ever-
greens, ground cover, shrubs, washed stream rocks, or a combin-
ation of similar materials.
5. Detailed plans for landscaping and screening shall
be submitted with plans for building and site improvements and
the certificate of occupancy shall not be issued prior to installa-
tion of landscaping and screening.
Section 17. Chapter 18.56.040 Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 533 X15 (part), 1968: Ord. 250 S4 -20 (part), 1957) is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Where off street parking is required, the front edge
of the screening for the parking area shall not be less than
twenty -five feet from the centerline of streets in residential
areas and thirty feet in other areas.
Where screening is not required, the edge of the park-
ing area surface shall not be less than thirty feet from the
centerline of the street in residential areas and thirty -five
feet in other areas for normal service streets, and forty -five
feet for designated arterials.
All parking areas shall have specific entrance and /or
exit areas to the street, each with a maximum width of twenty
four feet at the property line except in industrial districts
where forty feet is permitted; edge of curb cut or access shall
be no closer than twenty (20) feet from a corner property line,
and more when required by the City Supervisor for safe movement
of vehicles or pedestrians.
Section 18. Chapter 18.56.070 Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 524 (part), 1968: Ord. 251 §4 -20 (part),1957) is hereby
amended to read as follows:
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On site facilities for the storage or parking of pass-
enger 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 units, or fraction thereof. Screening for parking
areas on streets or facing single family residences shall be
provided by the following methods singularly or in combination:
1. A four foot (4') high fence, of decorative or per-
manent character;
2. A maintained planting strip of hardy evergreen
shrubery, which will provide dense, uniform growth, four (4) to
six (6) feet high, within two years of planting;
3. A four (4) foot high berm, or equivalent change in
grade, covered with maintained evergreen ground cover plantings.
Where auxiliary parking areas within five hundred (500) feet of
the immediate area of the building are developed, they shall meet
the requirements of Section 18.24.060, 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 twenty -four
(24) feet at the property line; edge of curb or cut or access shall
be no closer than twenty (20) feet from a corner property line, and
more when required by City Supervisor for safe movement of vehicles
or pedestrians.
Maintained dense screen plantings shall be only two (2)
feet high, twenty (20) feet from a corner where two streets inter-
sect. No trucks shall be parked on a lot in an apartment zone ex-
cept for deliveries. Trailers, boats, campers, or similar equip-
ment shall be parked in side and rear yard areas only, and screened
by a four (4) foot high fence of decorative and permanent character.
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Section 19. Chapter 18.56.160 Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 251 §4 -20 (part), 1957) is hereby amended to read as follows:
All office and professional buildings hereafter erected
and all buildings converted to such use or occupancy shall pro-
vide on the premises 3.1 parking spaces for each one thousand
square feet of gross floor area or 4.0 parking spaces for each one
thousand square feet of gross rentable area, except basement space
and other areas within the building used for parking cars, or,
in districts C -P within one thousand (1,000) feet on premises zoned
for commercial or industrial uses.
The commission may vary any of these requirements as is
provided for places of public assembly.
Section 20. Chapter 18.56.170 Tukwila Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
All retail business or commercial buildings hereafter
erected, or any building converted to such use or occupancy, except
in a C -P district, shall provide one off street parking space for
each four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area or fraction
thereof, except basement space and other areas within the building
used for parking cars, for each business or commercial establish-
ment within the building, such parking space shall be provided on
the premises or within one thousand feet (1000) on property zoned
for business or industrial purposesor approved by the Planning
Commission.
The commission may vary any of these requirements as
are provided for places of public assembly.
Section 21. Chapter 18.56.180 Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 251 54 -20 (part), 1957) is hereby amended to read as follows:
All industrial buildings hereafter erected, and all
buildings converted to such use or occupancy, shall provide on the
premises one off street parking space for each two (2) employees
or one thousand (1,000) square feet of building area (whichever
is the greater), plus one parking space for each temporary occu-
pant during normal business hours, to be certified by the owner
of the building.
Section 22. Chapter 18.56.210 Tukwila Municipal Code
(Ord. 251 §4 -20) (part), 1957) is hereby amended to read as
follows:
In districts C -1 or C -2, off street space for standing,
loading and unloading services shall be provided in such a manner
as not to obstruct freedom of traffic movement on streets or
alleys.
In the C -2 and M -1 districts, for every building,
structure, or part thereof, hereafter erected and occupied for
manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods, display, department
store, wholesale store, market, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning,
or other uses similarly involving the receipt of distribution by
vehicles of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and
maintained on the premises adequate space for standing, loading
and unloading services in order to avoid undue interference with
public use of the streets and alleys. Each space, unless otherwise
adequately provided for, shall consist of a ten foot by twenty
five foot loading space with fourteen foot height clearance for
small trucks, such as pick -up trucks, and a ten foot by forty
five foot loading space with fourteen foot height clearance for
large trucks, including tractor trailers.
The following table prescribes the number of spaces
required.
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Number of
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SQUARE FEET OF GROSS FLOOR AREA (Except Basement Area)
Buildings for Retail and Departmet
Store Use, Manufacturing, Storage, etc.
1 Under 10,000
2 10,000 to 25,000
3 25,000 to 85,000
4 85,000 to 155,000
5 155,000 to 235,000
6 235,000 to 325,000
7 325,000 to 425,000
8 425,000 to 535,000
9 535,000 to 655,000
10 655,000 to 775,000
11 775,000 to 925,000
Number of Office Buildings, Hotels, Hospitals,
Spaces and Institutions
1 3,000 to 100,000 (excl.)
2 100,000 to 335,000
3 335,000 to 625,000
4 625,000 to 945,000
5 945,000 to 1,300,000
6 1,300,000 to 1,695,000
7 1,695,000 to 2,130,000
8 2,130,000 to 2,605,000
9 2,605,000 to 3,120,000
10 3,120,000 to 3,675,000
These requirements may be reduced by the Planning Com-
mission, upon appeal and after hearing, where the commission finds
that such reduction will not result in injury to neighboring prop-
erty nor obstruction of fire lanes or traffic and will be in har-
mony with the purposes and intent of this Chapter.
Section 23. There is added to Chapter 18.60 Tukwila
Municipal Code a new section to read as follows:
In the M -1, M -2 and C -M districts situate south of
Interstate 405 and within the city limits of Tukwila, Washington,
buildings may be erected to a height not to exceed three hundred
(300') feet provided:
(1) Distance from the center of streets at the
base of the building shall not be less than
two thirds (2/3) of the building height.
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(2) Width of side and rear yards not fronting on
streets shall be not less than two thirds (2/3)
of the setback required from the center of the
street or streets.
(3) Where a district in which a building is located
requires greater setbacks or yard areas, these
shall govern.
(4) Above setbacks to be approved by the Planning
Commission to insure adequate light and air for
uses on adjacent property and may be adjusted
where necessary by the Planning Commission.
(5) All plans are approved under the "Architectural
Control" provisions of Chapter 18.32.040, Tukwila
Municipal Code.
(6) The use will not be unduly detrimental to adjacent
and /or surrounding property.
(7) Full compliance is made with all rules and regu-
lations of any governing federal, state or county
regulatory agencies which may have jurisdiction
within the corporate limits of Tukwila.
(8) In authorizing construction of a building under
this section the Planning Commission may impose
such additional requirements and conditions with
respect to location, adequate parking facilities,
installation, construction, design, maintenance and
operation and extent of open spaces as may be deemed
necessary for the promotion of the public health,
safety and welfare or for the protection of other
properties in the district or vicinity.
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ATTEST:
(9) Parking shall be on the same property on which
the building is located or contiguous thereto.
Parking space must be provided at a rate of 3.1
cars per thousand feet of gross floor area or
4 cars per thousand feet of gross rentable floor
area.
(10) Full compliance is made with all other provi-
sions as set forth for the use district in which
the building is to be located.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND APPROVED BY THE
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CITY CLERK'
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
MAYOR this 2 of 1970.
CITY ATTORNEY
PUBLISHED IN THE RECORD CHRONICLE
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