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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMISCSCq sf eJ- Sec. 22-34. - Light Industrial Zone (1-1). 00 h (a) Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide for industrial and related uses with limited objectionable external effects in areas that are suitable for such operations due to the desirability of site characteristics, adequacy of utilities, appropriateness of transportation facilities and other factors. Acceptable manufacturing, warehousing, heavy commercial and similar uses are encouraged. Uses in the district may perform a support role for uses in other industrial areas. (b) Bask use standards. Uses in an 1-1 zone must meet the requirements of this section. More restrictive requirements, set forth in accordance with other provisions of this chapter, must be satisfied by some conditional uses. (1) Lot size. a. The minimum lot width shall be one hundred (100) feet. b. The minimum lot depth shall be one hundred (100) feet. (2) Yards. The minimum yard depth for portions of the property abutting a public right-of- way or nonindustrial district will be fifteen (15) feet. (c) Other applicable use standards. (1) Site plan review shall be required for uses which have buildings with more than four thousand (4,000) square feet of floor area. (2) Accessory buildings shall comply with all yard, lot coverage and building height requirements of this chapter. (3) Every lot shall abut a street other than an alley for at least fifty (50) feet. (4) Materials or objects which would detract from the open space character of an uncovered or unenclosed area will not be permitted in such an area. (6) All uses will comply with applicable access, parking and loading standards in sections 22-60 and 22-61. (6) Conditional uses will meet the requirements in sections 22-74 through 22-86. (7) Signs will comply with standards referred to in section 22-55. (8) All other applicable ordinance requirements will also be satisfied. (Ord. No. H-186, § 30-36, 6-15-81; Ord. No. H-245, § 1, 12-20-82; Ord. No. I-26, § 4, 8-15-83; Ord. No. K-24, § 14, 8-21-00; Ord. No. L-04, § 1, 3-3-08; Ord. No. L-97, § 4, 11-16-09; Ord. No. L-267, § 2, 11-5-12; Ord. No. L-295. 5 17, 11-4-13 ) Sec. 22-187. - General landscaping requirements. All landscape plans shall meet or exceed the following general landscaping requirements which shall be considered complimentary to the landscaping provisions of any other city ordinance. This section shall. not apply to lots subject to section 22-186 above. A certificate of occupancy shall not be issued on any permit for the use, construction, repair or renovation of any structure within the city, whether residential, commercial, industrial or accessory, unless application for any such permit is accompanied by a detailed landscape plan meeting all requirements of this article. The department is not authorized to exempt the permit application from any requirement except as expressly provided for in this article. (1) Requirements for plant materials. Plant materials used for conformance with this article shall meet or exceed the standards for Florida No. 1 as set out in the most current edition of "Grades and Standards for Nursery Plants Part 1 and Part 2.", State of Florida, Department of Agriculture, Tallahassee. The clerk's office shall maintain a stock of these manuals to be given to permit applicants, particularly though not exclusively to homeowners, for the applicant's use in submitting the required landscape plan. All trees required by this article (excluding palms that are exempt from the grades and standards) shall have a Florida No. 1 or better "Grades and Standards" certification tag attached at time of delivery through final inspection. Grass sod shall be clean and free of weeds, pests and diseases. Trees., a. Trees used to meet the requirements of this section shall be species which when planted have a height of at least twelve (12) feet and have trunks which can be maintained in a clean condition for over five (5) feet of clear wood. At planting, the trees shall have a diameter of at least two and one-half (2%) inches at a point four and one-half (4'/2) feet above ground level and a spread of at least five (5) feet (except for palms which shall have a minimum clear trunk of ten (10) feet). b. Trees used to meet the requirements of this section shall also be species which in the county normally grow in a manner such that at maturity they will have a minimum crown spread of fifteen (15) feet and a minimum height of fifteen (15) feet. Trees which can meet the height requirement at maturity but not the crown requirements may be grouped to form a wider crown, but will be counted as one tree. Three palms may be substituted for one tree provided that fifty (50) per cent of requirement shall be trees. c. Fifty (50) per cent of the required trees shall be species other than palm trees (Palmaceae family) except when planted in accordance with an approved plan prepared by a Florida registered landscape architect. d. Trees of species whose roots are known to cause damage to public roadways or other public works shall not be planted closer than twelve (12) feet to such public works, unless the tree root system is completely contained within a barrier for which the minimum interior containing dimensions shall be three (3) feet times five (5) feet and five (5) feet deep, and for which the construction requirements shall be six-inch thick concrete with fiber mesh and no wire mesh or by a root barrier product approved by the city engineer. e. None of the following trees shall be planted in the city and where they presently exist when permit application is made, their removal shall be a condition of any final development order: Melaleuca, leucadendron (punk tree), Schinus terebinthifolius (Brazilian pepper) and Casuarina sbp. (Australian pine). Nor may any of the following trees be planted for purposes of complying with requirements of this article: any species designated as category I on the Exotic Plant Pest Council's current list of "Florida's Most Invasive Species", Cupaniopsis anacardioides (Carrotwood), Dalbergia sissoo (Rosewood), Albizzia lebbeck (Woman's tongue), Araucaria heterophylia (Norfolk Island pine), Grevillea robusta (Silk oak), Melia azadaracha (Chinaberry), Ficus spp. (non-native Ficus), Eucalyptus sop. (Eucalyptus). f. Shrubs and hedges. Shrubs used to meet the requirements of this section shall be a minimum of twenty-four (24) inches in height when planted. Hedges, where required, shall be planted and maintained so as to form a thirty -six-inch or higher continuous, unbroken, solid, visual screen. g. Ground covers. Ground covers used in lieu of grass, or in part, to meet the requirements of this section, shall be planted in such a manner as to present a finished appearance and reasonably complete coverage within three (12) months after planting. h. Grass. Grass used to meet the requirements of this section shall be planted with species normally grown as permanent lawns in the county. Grass areas will be sodded, except that plugging, sprigging or seeding of grassy areas is permissible with respect to single- family and two-family residential lots. As to all lots, solid sod shall be used in swales, detention or retention areas and other areas subject to erosion. i. Existing plant material. When plant material exists on a site prior to the date application for a permit is made, credit may be allowed for such plant material provided that it is protected during construction and Incorporated into the required landscaping in a manner which satisfies the requirements of this article. (2) Landscaped areas. Each separate landscaped area shall have at least one tree, one or more shrubs as approved by the department, or one or more hedges, and ground cover. So as to support long term plant health, planting soil for all landscaped areas shall consist of existing soil mixed with fifty (50) per cent recycled top soil. Such planting soil shall be free of debris, roots, clay, stones, plants or other foreign materials. The planting soil meeting requirements of this subsection shall extend to an appropriate depth so as to eliminate any hindrance to planting operations or detriment to good plant growth. Compliance with these soil requirements shall be verified as part of the final inspection. (3) Landscaping design standards. For commercial, professional, multifamily, industrial and institutional structures, these design standards are in addition to, and not in place of, other requirements imposed by this article. (5) Other property. All property, other than the required landscape strip, located between street right-of-way and buildings, shall be completely covered with grass or other ground cover except to the extent there are permitted, impervious surface structure such as sidewalks, plazas and driveways. , (6) Vehicular use, building, retention/detention areas adjacent to other property. Landscape standards for these areas are as follows: a. Where a vehicular use area does not abut a street right-of-way but abuts other property, there will be a landscaped strip of land which is at least ten (10) feet wide. When a property line abuts a building, another structure, a joint driveway or joint parking area, such landscaped strip shall not be required.