A. Self-Storage or Mini-Warehouse Facility
1. Districts Where Permitted
RS-1 | RS-2 | RS-3 | RS-4 | RS-L | RD-1 | RM-7 | RM-12 | RM-20 | RM-30 | RM-45 | MH-12 | B-1 | B-2 | B-3 | B-4 |
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M-1 | CR | I-1 | I-IX | OIP | M-2 | TO | PR | CF | PU | T | BP | RPUD | PCD | PD-TO | LAC | PD-1 |
S | P | S | P |
2. Definition
A self-storage or mini-warehouse facility is a building or group of buildings divided into separate self-contained units or areas offered for rent for self-service storage of household and personal property. The storage units or areas are designed to allow private access by the tenant for storing and removing personal property. Accessory uses may include leasing offices, outdoor storage of boats and recreational vehicles, incidental sales or rental of moving supplies and equipment, and living quarters for a resident manager or security guard. The rental of trucks or trailers is a separate principal use and not considered accessory to this use.
3. Standards
A self-storage or mini-warehouse facility shall comply with the following standards:
a. Site Layout
i. The facility shall be located on a site with an area of at least one acre.
ii. If separate buildings are constructed, there shall be a minimum separation of ten feet between buildings.
b. Operation
i. The only commercial uses permitted on-site shall be the rental of storage bays and the pickup and deposit of goods or property in dead storage and the incidental sales or rental of moving supplies (e.g., boxes) and equipment (e.g., dollies). Storage bays shall not be used to manufacture, fabricate, or process goods, to service or repair vehicles, small engines or electrical equipment, or conduct similar repair activities, to conduct garage sales or retail sales of any kind, or to conduct any other commercial or industrial activity on the site.
ii. Except as otherwise authorized in this subsection, all property stored on the site shall be contained entirely within enclosed buildings.
iii. Hours of public access to a self-storage use abutting a residential zoning district or existing residential use shall be restricted to the hours between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
c. Storage of Recreational Vehicles and Boats
Open storage of recreational vehicles (RVs) and pleasure boats of the type customarily maintained by persons for their personal use shall be permitted within a self-service storage facility use, provided that the following standards are met:
i. The storage shall occur only within a designated area, which shall be clearly delineated.
ii. Storage shall not occur within required yards.
iii. The parking spaces designated for storage shall not be eligible for compliance with Minimum Off-Street Parking Requirements.
iv. The designated storage area shall be located behind the principal structure and shall comply with the Outdoor Storage Area standards in Section 155.4303.W.
v. The recreational vehicles and pleasure boats shall be operable. The pleasure boats shall be placed on a trailer.
d. Parking and Circulation
i. Interior parking shall be provided in the form of aisleways adjacent to the storage bays. These aisleways shall be wide enough to be used both for circulation and temporary customer parking when accessing storage bays.
ii. The one- or two-way traffic flow patterns in aisleways shall be clearly marked. Marking shall consist, at a minimum, of standard directional signage and painted lane markings with arrows.
iii. Appropriate access and circulation by vehicles and emergency equipment shall be ensured through the design of internal turning radii of aisleways.
iv. All access ways shall be paved with asphalt, concrete, or comparable paving materials.
e. Building Appearance
In addition to the General Commercial, Institutional, and Mixed-Use Design Standards of Section 155.5602, the following design standards are applicable for self-storage uses in B-4 and I-1 Zoning districts.
i. Garage doors or overhead doors serving individual storage units, or similar architectural treatment shall not be visible from adjacent streets. When overhead doors are within a building, they must be setback a minimum of 15 feet from any window facing a public right-of-way (this shall not include opaque glass or false windows, where the interior space is not visible from the right-of-way).
ii. Colors used shall be compatible with the character of the surrounding area, abutting residential neighborhoods.
iii. Regardless of the number of stories, buildings greater than 24 feet in height shall include a clearly recognizable base, middle and top configured in accordance with the standards of Section 155.5602.C.4.
iv. Each story above the ground level must provide at least 30 percent of the street-facing facade area as glass treatment (measured from the story line denoting the lower floor to the underside of the eave, top of the parapet, or the story line denoting the upper floor).
v. When a self-storage facility is proposed along an arterial or collector roadway, the building must be designed to accommodate a commercial liner. The liner building may be in the same building or separate from the self-storage facility; however, when it is integrated into the same building at minimum the ground floor must be designed to allow for active commercial use(s) fronting the street, independent from the self-storage facility.