Staff definition-warehouse/asseCOPPEi L
Date: February 18, 2004
'1'o: Jim Witt. City Manager
Thru: Gary Sieb, Director of Planning
From: Marcie Diamond, Assistant Director of Planning
RE: REVISED Definition of Warehoasing
Staff' has reviewed the applicant's propomd revisions to the recommended definitions of
Warehouse/Distribution and Limited Assembly and Manufacturing and offers the following
comments. For the warehouse/distribution definition, the words "dead" and "bulk" should
not be included as they are not defined in the Zoning Ordinatwe as well as denote a more
intense use than what was portrayed to staffby the applicant. Staffis also recommending that
verbiage be added to assure that there is sufficient parking for the proposed accessory uses, as
tbllows:
"Warehouse/Distribution- A ~..,;~.4i.... use
........ ~ ~. ......... · devoted to dead
storage, bu!k warehousing and distribution of goods, merchandise,
supplies and equipment. Accessory uses not considered to be part of
storage and warehousinq areas may include retail and wholesale sales
areas, offices, sales offices, research and development areas and display
areas for products sold and distributed from the storage and warehousing
areas." Parking for all herein-defined accessory uses shall be provided,
on a gross square foot basis, in accordance with the Section 12-31-6 of
the Coppell Zoning Ordinance
In terms of the proposed revisions to the definition of "Limited Assembly and
Manufacturing", staff can accept the addition of "repair and disassembly" as these
changes as they do not materially effect the intensity of use. Although including the
excluded uses appears to re-state the obvious, it is recommended that these remain in the
definition to, once again, assure that these uses are limited in scope and intensity.
"Limited Assembly and Manufacturin,q-The assembly, repair, disassembly
and manufacturing of finished products or parts from previously prepared
materials and parts. Fabrication may be used in limited form to shape or
define the final product, but shall not comprise the primary activity of such
operations. Basic industrial processing which transforms
,. ........ dy raw materials into a new substance, compound, ~f' product is
not permitted ~'-'-~, ,~-"~ ..... ...4,,.4~. ~.. ,, ..... + ..-..;*.-..~ + ....
Excluded uses include, but are not limited to meat I~ackinq, chemical and
petroleum processinq and manufacturing, and foundries".