30.28.110 Material Recovery Facility.
(1) Material recovery facilities shall comply with state requirements in Chapter 173-350 WAC and all other applicable federal, state and county requirements.
(2) Material recovery facilities shall be subject to conditions designed to limit impacts on neighboring properties. These conditions may address any or all of the following topics:
(a) Hours of operation;
(b) Noise;
(c) Landscaping and screening;
(d) Dust control;
(e) Height;
(f) Setbacks from abutting properties;
(g) Lighting;
(h) Odor;
(i) Outdoor storage and processing areas;
(j) Vibration; or
(k) Any other probable adverse impact from the operation on nearby properties.
(3) Material recovery facilities on properties abutting a rural or residential zone or separated from a rural or residential zone by a public or private road or road right-of-way that collect, compact, repackage, sort, or process for transport source waste that results from construction, remodeling, repair or demolition of buildings, roads, or other structures, or from land-clearing for development, and that is removed from the site of construction, demolition or land clearing and shall be subject to conditions designed to limit impacts on neighboring properties. These conditions shall include:
(a) Facilities shall not operate between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., provided that cleaning, maintenance, and other ancillary activities may be allowed with a maximum permissible sound level of 47 decibels at the facility’s property boundary;
(b) Facilities shall provide a 50-foot wide landscaped area along the external boundary of the property where it either abuts a rural or residential zone, or where it is separated from a rural or residential zone by a public or private road or road right-of-way. The landscape area shall be an undeveloped area that contains a visual screen that shall include dense plantings equal to or exceeding Type A landscaping, and decorative walls, landscaped berming, and/or other buffering techniques.
(4) County-owned drop boxes shall not be subject to these requirements. (Added by Amended Ord. 16-013, Mar. 8, 2017, Eff date May 7, 2017).