HomeMy WebLinkAbout5177 ORDINANCE NO. 5177
A ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, Washington, relating to land use zoning by amending
Chapters 20 42, 20 86 and 20 98 of the Bremerton Municipal Code
regarding Opiate Substitution Treatment Facilities
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton adopted a 20 -year comprehensive growth
management plan in December 2004 in accordance with the goals and requirements of RCW
36 70A (the Growth Management Act, or GMA), and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance 4950 on November 30, 2005
establishing a new Zoning Code, and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance No 5155 which determined that
the City's Zoning Code does not adequately address the impacts of the placement and uses of
Opiate Substitution Treatment Facilities and therefore established a six (6) month moratorium on
the placement and uses of Opiate Substitution Treatment Facilities within the City, and
WHEREAS, the City Council, in adopting Ordinance No 5155, made findings
that the citizens of Bremerton would be well - served if the City more fully addressed and
understood the potential impacts in the form of health, safety, economics, hazards to traffic, and
aesthetics relating to Opiate Substitution Treatment Facilities impose upon neighboring
properties and the community as a whole, and
WHEREAS, the moratorium established by Ordinance No 5155 became effective
August 3, 2011 and expires on February 2, 2012, and
WHEREAS, the City needed time to research its options and to review existing
information on the effects of these facilities and to review the Bremerton Municipal Code in a
comprehensive fashion to determine what code revisions are necessary to address the impacts of
such a uses, and
WHEREAS, the moratorium was adopted to provide time in which the City
Council may study its existing code, ordinances, and the impacts of such uses, determine what
reasonable regulation is necessary to mitigate the impacts, and prepare for placement of Opiate
Substitution Treatment Facilities,
WHEREAS, on October 10, 2011 the proposed Zoning Code amendments
relating to Opiate Substitution Treatment Facilities were circulated to the State Agencies for the
requisite 60 -day review and comment period and the City received conformation on the October
11, 2011 that the notice was received, and
WHEREAS, on October 18, 2011 the City of Bremerton Planing Commission
considered staff's recommendations, received testimony, and formulated a recommendation to
forward the amendments for City Council at a duly advertised public hearing, and
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WHEREAS, on December 7, 2011 a State Environmental Policy Act
Determination of Nonsignificance was issued for the proposed action with an administrative
appeal deadline of January 4, 2012 and no appeals were filed,
WHEREAS, the public was notified by legal advertisement in the Kitsap Sun of
the opportunity to make comment and participate in the public hearing by the City Council, and
WHEREAS, City Council took public testimony from interested parties and
considered all written and oral arguments at a duly advertised public hearing for the Zoning
Code amendments on February 1, 2012 date, and
WHEREAS, City Council finds that the recommended amendments the
Bremerton Municipal Code relating to Opiate Substitution Treatment Facilities herein are in the
public interest, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON, WASHINGTON,
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as follows
SECTION 1. Recitals Incorporated The recitals set forth in this ordinance are
hereby incorporated as if fully set forth herein
SECTION 2. Section 20 42 020 in the Bremerton Municipal Code titled "List of
Defined Terms" is hereby amended to add "Opiate substitution treatment facility" to the list as
follows
20.42.020 LIST OF DEFINED TERMS.
Abandoned sign
Abandonment or Abandoned
Accessory dwelling unit (ADU)
Accessory use, activity or structure
Acre, net
Acre, gross
Adjoining or adjacent
Administrative Hearing Examiner
Adult entertainment business
Adult family home
Alley
Alteration
Alteration, structural
Antenna, tower
Antenna, wireless
Applicant
Appurtenance or Appendage
Area of sign
Art gallery
Art studio
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Assisted living facility
Automobile sales
Automobile service and repair
Awning/canopy
Bay window
Bed and breakfast
Boarding house or rooming house
Buffering
Building code
Building coverage
Building envelope
Building line
Bulletin board/kiosk
Car wash
Caretaker
Caretaker's residence
Carport
Cell on wheels (COW)
Change of use
Changeable copy /readerboard sign
City
Co- location
Community facility
Concealed
Construction sign
Day care facility
Deck
Density
Density, maximum
Density, minimum
Detached
Detoxification center
Development coverage
Directional sign
Director
Drinking place
Drive- through facility
Drive- through lanes
Duplex
Dwelling unit
Dwelling, conventional
Dwelling, modular or factory -built
Dwelling, multi -unit structure
Dwelling, single -unit attached
Dwelling, single -unit structure
Education and school
Education, higher and college
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Entertainment use
Equipment structure
FAA
FCC
Fence
Finance, insurance and real estate
Foster home
Franchise business
Freestanding sign
Frontage
Garage
Gas station
Grade
Grade, average final
Grade, existing
Gross floor area
Group residential
Group residential - Class I (assisted living)
Group residential - Class II
Group residential home
Heavy mdustrial/manufacturing
Height
Home occupation
Homeowners' association
Hospital
Hotel and lodging place
Household
Identification sign
Illegal sign
Impervious surface
Incidental sign
Incubator for business
Junk yard
Kennel
Light industrial /manufacturing
Loading area
Lot
Lot area
Lot line, front
Lot line, rear
Lot line, side
Lot, depth
Lot, flag
Lot, waterfront
Lot, width
Maintain
Manufactured home
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Marina
Marquee
Medical laboratory
Medical office and clinic
Mobile home
Monument sign
Motion picture theater
Multiple - building complex
Multiple- occupancy building
Museum and gallery
Nonconforming sign
Nursery and greenhouse
Nursing/convalescent home
Office and business services, general
Off - premises sign
Open space
Opiate substitution treatment facility
Outdoor athletic fields
Parcel
Park, playground and open space
Parking, satellite
Parking, structure
Paved surface
Personal service
Physical fitness and health club
Pier
Pole sign
Porch
Portable sign
Premises
Private club or lodge
Product sign
Projecting sign
Provider
Public administration
Public distribution/transmission facility
Public utility facility
Public information/identification sign
Public services
Recreational vehicle
Recreational vehicle park
Recycling center
Recycling collection station
Recycling collection station (limited)
Rehabilitation
Residential use
Residential, as secondary use
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Restaurant
Restaurant, fast food
Retail, general
Retail, large
Rezone
Sandwich board sign
Satellite dish
Senior citizen
Senior housing complex
Setback, maximum
Setback, minimum
Shop
Shopping center
Sidewalk vendor
Sign
Sign structure
Social services
Stadium and sports complex
Storage building and shop
Storage yard, outdoor storage
Story
Street
Street, private
Structure
Structure, accessory
Structure, principal
Structure, temporary
Support structures
Temporary sign
Tower
Townhouse
Transient person
Transportation facility
Use
Use, accessory
Use, conditional
Use, principal
Use, temporary
Variance
Vehicle- or trailer- mounted sign
Vesting
Veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
Wall sign
Warehousing
Whip antenna
Wireless telecommunications facility
Worship and religious facility
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Yard
Yard, construction or storage
Zero lot line
SECTION 3. Section 20 42 040 of the Bremerton Municipal Code titled
"Definitions" is hereby amended to include a new definition for "Opiate substitution treatment
facility" between the two existing definitions, "Open space" and "Outdoor athletic fields ", as
follows
"Opiate substitution treatment facility" means an organization that administers or dispenses an
approved drug as specified in 212 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 291 for treatment of
detoxification of opiate substitution The agency is
(1) Approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration,
(2) Registered with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration,
(3) Registered with the State Board of Pharmacy,
(4) Licensed by the county in which it operates, and
(5) Certified as an opiate substitution treatment agency by the State Department of
Social and Health Services
SECTION 4. Chapter 20 86 of the Bremerton Municipal Code titled "Freeway
Corridor Zone" is hereby amended to include "Opiate substitution treatment facility" criteria in
20 86 040 as follows
20.86.040 CONDITIONAL USES
A conditional use permit, which is approved pursuant to BMC 20 58 020, may permit the
following uses.
(a) Heavy industrial/manufacturing, provided
(1) All standards of the noise levels ordinance, Chapter 6 32 BMC, are met,
(2) No unshielded light or glare will be visible during periods of darkness in a
residential zone,
(3) No odor, dust or smoke byproduct will be clearly detectable on any adjacent
or adjoining commercial or residential lot,
(4) The applicant can demonstrate that the use will not significantly detract from
the visual character of the area as seen from public rights -of -way or any adjacent
lot Unkept or unsightly storage, refuse, yard, or equipment areas are elements
with the potential to negatively impact visual character
(b) Adult business per BMC 20 46 110
(c) Class II group residential facilities, provided
(1) The facility will not create an operational conflict with the efficiency of
large -scale freeway - oriented commercial use
(d) Opiate substitution treatment facility provided
(1) The permit shall be processed as a Type III Hearing Examiner decision
(2) No opiate substitution treatment facility shall be sited within 1.000 (one -
thousand) feet of another opiate substitution treatment facility
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(3) Off - street parking shall be provided one (1) parking space per 150 square
feet of gross floor area, and
(4) Landscaping is provided meeting the minimum requirements for
nonresidential uses as prescribed in Chapter 20 50 BMC
SECTION S. Chapter 20 98 of the Bremerton Municipal Code titled
"Institutional" is hereby amended to add Section 20 98 040 titled "Conditional Uses" as follows
20.98.040 CONDITIONAL USES
A conditional use permit which is approved pursuant to BMC 20 58 020, may permit the
following uses
(a) Opiate substitution treatment facility, provided
(1) The permit shall be processed as a Type III Hearing Examiner decision,
(2) May only be located in the Institutional zone where the Harrison Medical
Center campus is sited, in the vicinity of Cherry Avenue, Wheaton Way, and
Clare Avenue,
(3) No opiate substitution treatment facility shall be sited within 1,000 (one -
thousand) feet of another opiate substitution treatment facilities,
(4) Off - street parking shall be provided one (1) parking space per 150 square
feet of gross floor area, and
(5) Landscaping is provided meeting the minimum requirements for
nonresidential uses as prescribed in Chapter 20 50 BMC
SECTION 6. Severabihbt If any one or more sections, subsections, or sentence
of this Resolution are held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portion of this Resolution and the same shall remain in full force and
effect
SECTION 7. Effective Date This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force ten
(10) days from and after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington this
day of �i rU& �' , 2012
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JIM McDONALD, Council President
Approved this 3,eD day of �ovl�r''�G , 2012
PATTY , Mayor
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ER A LUBOVICH, Cit SHANNON CORIN, Interim i y Clerk
PUBLISHED the �— day of 1 4 i e 2012
EFFECTIVE the day of 2012
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My Commission Expires
February 04, 2014
ORDINANCE NO 5177
AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington, relating to land use
zoning by amending Chapters 20 42, 20 86 and 20 98 of the Bremerton Mumcipal Code regarding Opiate
Substitution Treatment Facilities
PASSED by the City Council on the 1 st day of February, 2012
The full text of this ordinance is available from the City Clerk's Office, 345 Sixth Street, Suite 600,
Bremerton, WA 98337
February 6, 2012
AD #20121910