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Clerk 11/19/2010
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AN ORDINANCE relating to zoning; and amending Ordinance 11567, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.38.100.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 11567, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.38.100 each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. The purpose of the commercial/industrial special district overlay is to accommodate and support existing commercial/industrial areas outside of activity centers by providing incentives for the redevelopment of underutilized commercial or industrial lands and by permitting a range of appropriate uses consistent with maintaining the quality of nearby residential areas.
B. The commercial/industrial special district overlay shall be designated only through the area zoning process and applied to areas substantially developed with a mix of commercial and light industrial uses and zoned CB, RB, O((,)) or I.
C. The standards of this title and other county codes shall be applicable to development within the commercial/industrial special district overlay except as follows:
1. Legally((-)) established commercial or industrial uses that exist within an area as of the effective date of legislation applying the commercial/industrial special district overlay, but that are not otherwise permitted by the zoning, shall be considered permitted uses upon only the lots that they occupied as of that date.
2. Permitted uses ((within the area of a commercial/industrial special district overlay)) shall include those ((uses permitted in)) of the base and I zone ((applied therein as well as permitted uses as set forth in the I zone)), with the exception of the following:
a. any use permitted in the I zone requiring a conditional use permit;
b. auction houses;
c. livestock sales;
d. SIC Industry Group 201 (meat products);
e. SIC Industry Group 202 (dairy products);
f. SIC Industry Group 204 (grain mill products);
g. SIC Indus...

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