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Kittitas County, WA § 17.15.070 § 17.15.070 Downloaded from https://ecode360.com/KI6857 on 2025-07-02 Footnotes Associated with Rural LAMIRD Use Table. 9. No new cemeteries. Existing cemeteries may expand or enlarge within established cemetery boundaries as of the date of amendment adoption, and in compliance with applicable standards and regulations. 10. Not permitted in the Agriculture Study Overlay Zone. 11. Permitted when conducted wholly within an enclosed building (excluding off-street parking and loading areas). 12. Provided the minimum lot size shall be fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet. 13. When the office activities are directly related to tourism and recreation. 14. Retail sales limited to groceries and sales of souvenirs, gifts, novelties, curios and handicraft products. Grocery stores ma y not exceed ten thousand (10,000) square feet. 15. Any open storage shall be enclosed by a sight-obscuring fence not less than six (6) feet and not more than seven (7) feet high. 16. Not to exceed two (2) years. 17. Limited to farm implement repair and maintenance, but not to include automobiles, trucks or bikes 18. Limited to service stations, provided there shall be no repairing, repainting, reconstruction or sale of motor vehicles from the premises. 19. Includes truck stop operations. Minor repair work permitted. 20. Because of considerations of odor, dust, smoke, noise, fumes, vibration or hazard, the following uses shall not be permitted in the industrial zone unless a conditional use permit authorizing such use has been granted by the Board: a. All chemical manufacture, storage and/or packaging; b. Asphalt manufacture, mixing, or refining; c. Automobile dismantling, wrecking or junk yards; d. Blast furnaces or coke ovens; e. Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris manufacture; f. Drop forge industries; g. Reduction or disposal of garbage, offal or similar refuse; h. Oil refining; alternative energy refinery (i.e. biofuels, ethanol) i. Rubber reclaiming; j. Feed yards, livestock sales yards or slaughterhouses; k. Smelting, reduction or refining of metallic ores; l. Tanneries; m. Wineries; n. Manufacturing of industrial or household adhesives, glues, cements, or component parts thereof, from vegetable, animal or syn thetic plastic materials; o. Waste (refuse) recycling and processing; p. On-site and off-site hazardous waste storage and/or treatment. Off-site materials shall be accepted only from Kittitas County source sites. In considering the issuance of conditional use permits for the foregoing listed uses, the Board shall: a. Assure that the degree of compatibility enunciated as the purpose of this title shall be maintained with respect to the parti cular use on the particular site and in consideration of other existing and potential uses within the general area in which such use is pr oposed to be located; b. Recognize and compensate for variations and degree of technological processes and equipment as related to the factors of noise, smoke, fumes, vibration, odors, and hazards. Unless substantial proof is offered showing that such process and/or equipment has redu ced the above factors so as to be negligible, use is located not less than one thousand (1,000) feet from any church, school, park, playground or occupied dwelling on the same lot or parcel as such use. 21. In considering proposals for location of campgrounds, the Board shall consider at a minimum the following criteria: a. Campgrounds should be located at sufficient distance from existing rural residential/residential development so as to avoid p ossible conflicts and disturbances; b. Traffic volumes generated by such a development should not create a nuisance or impose on the privacy of nearby residences or interfere with normal traffic flow; c. Landscaping or appropriate screening should be required and maintained where necessary for buffering; d. Adequate and convenient vehicular access, circulation and parking should be provided; Exhibit C 61