Section 16.52.040 Uses.


    In the following list of possible uses, those designated in any zone as "P" will be a permitted use.  Uses designated as "C" will be allowed only when authorized by a conditional use permit obtained as provided in Chapter 16.14 Conditional Uses of this title.  Uses designated as "N" will not be allowed in that zone.

USES  
I-1 ZONE  
Accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental to a permitted use.  
P  
Amusement enterprises  
P  
Animal by-products  
N  
Animal hospital, small animals only and provided conducted within a completely enclosed building.
P  
Athletic club  
P  
Automobile repair including paint, body & fender, brake, muffler, upholstery, or transmission work provided conducted within a completely enclosed building.  
P  
Auction establishment  
P  
Billiard parlor  
P  
Bottling & distributing plant  
P  
Bowling alley  
P  
Boxing arena  
P  
Carpenter & cabinet shop  
P  
Car wash  
P  
Chemical products - manufacturing  
P  
Christmas tree sales  
P  
Coal & fuel sales office  
P  
Commercial storage units - providing for secured inside storage. Units shall be permanently secured on a foundation or cement flooring  
P  
Day-care nurseries  
N  
Dwellings, except caretaker and located above ground floor  
N  
Farm implement sales  
P  
Garden supplies & plant material sales  
P  
Government buildings or uses, non-industrial  
P  
Greenhouse & nursery, soil and lawn service  
P  
Hand crafted items, manufacture & retail sales on premises  
P  
Hotels and motels  
  1.  A minimum of 10' landscaped buffer shall be provided around the perimeter of the site.  Trees shall be incorporated into  the landscaping to provide buffering from industrial sites.
    2.  A 6' high solid fence shall be installed along rear and side property lines.  In site vision area fences can be stepped down to  allow vision of vehicles.
  3.  Lighting shall meet Vernal City ordinances.  
  4.  Parking shall meet requirements of Section 16.28 of the Vernal City municipal code.    
C  
Ice cream manufacture  
P  
Liquor store:  
  1.  Shall not be located within 500' of another establishment that sell alcohol.
    2.  Shall not be located within 500' of a residence, residential zone, school, church, or park.
  3.  Lighting shall meet Vernal City ordinances.  
  4.  Parking shall meet requirements of Section 16.28 of the Vernal City municipal code.
  5.  Shall have State approvals.  
C  
Lodge or social hall  
P  
Low power radio service antennas - monopole tower       
Maximum height fifty (50) feet  
P  
Low power radio service antennas - lattice tower       
Maximum height fifty (50) feet  
P  
Lumber yard  
P  
Machine shop operations incidental to any permitted use  
P  
Manufacture of goods retailed on property  
P  
Manufacturing explosives or explosive products  
N  
Manufacturing acetylene  
N  
Manufacturing acid  
N  
Manufacturing alcohol  
N  
Manufacturing ammonia  
N  
Manufacturing celluloid  
N  
Massage therapy with a State license  
P  
Metal products - manufacturing  
P  
Miniature golf  
P  
Mobile home and manufactured home sales lot, service and caretaker dwelling  
P  
Monument works and sales  
P  
Mortuary  
P  
Museum  
P  
Nightclub or social hall  
  1.  Shall not be located within 500' of another establishment that sells alcohol.  
    2.  Shall not be located within 500' of any residence, residential zone, school, church, or park.
  3.  Lighting shall meet Vernal City ordinances.  
  4.  Parking shall meet requirements of Section  16.28 of the Vernal City municipal code.
  5.  Shall have State approvals.      
C  
Parking large trucks, 28,000 gross vehicle weight, on non-aspalt surfaces  
         1.  No retail use on site  
         2.  Berming required in drainage area  
         3.  Contain storm water on site  
         4.  Asphalt approach area  
         5.  Must have 6" compacted, State specification, road base  
C  
Pharmaceutical products - manufacturing  
P  
Public utility substations  
P  
Radio, television or FM broadcasting stations.  
P  
Reception center or wedding chapel  
P  
Recreation center  
P  
Recreational vehicle storage  
   1.  Behind a six (6) foot non-see-thru fence.  
   2.  Storage area be paved with asphalt or concrete.  
P  
Rental agency for home & garden equipment  
P  
Restaurant  
P  
Retail, financial, office and personal service establishments provided there is no storage of merchandise or equipment outside  of enclosed buildings and further provided that such is not designated as conditional use elsewhere in this chapter.  
P  
Roofing shop  
P  
Rubber & plastic products - manufacturing  
P  
Service station, automobile, excluding painting, body & fender, & upholstery work.  
P  
Sexually oriented businesses:
  1.  Shall not be located within 600' of any school, public park, library or religious institution.
  2.  Shall not be located within 600' of any other sexually oriented business, except out-call services.  
  3.  Shall not be located within 600' of any residential uses or residential zoning boundary.  
  4.  Signage shall conform with Section 16.15.040 - signs.
  5.  Shall conform with Title 5.72 of the Vernal City municipal code.
C  
Sheet metal and retinning, provided all operations are conducted within a completely enclosed building.  
P  
Sign manufacture or sign painting  
P  
Sign, off-premise  
C  
Storage, outside, provided such storage area is enclosed within a minimum six (6) foot high non-see-thru buffer, (such as a fence  or land berming) to adequately shield the storage area from  outside view, provided, however, that a single see-through gate area for ingress and egress no wider than twelve (12) feet may be maintained as part of the fenced area.
C  
Tavern  
  1.  Shall not be located within 500' of another establishment that sells alcohol.  
    2.  Shall not be located within 500' of any residence, residential zone, school, church, or park.
  3.  Lighting shall meet Vernal City ordinances.  
  4.  Parking shall meet requirements of Section  16.28 of the Vernal City municipal code.
  5.  Shall have State approvals.      
C  
Taxidermist  
P  
Temporary building for uses incidental to construction work, such building shall be removed upon completion of the construction work.  
P  
Travel trailer courts  
N  
Travel trailer or RV sales and service  
P  
Used car lot  
P  
Warehouse storage  
P  
Welding shop  
P  
Wholesale business  
P  
Wood & furniture manufacturing  
P  

(Ord. No. 96-25, Enacted, 10/02/96; Ord. No. 97-02, Amended, 07/02/97; Ord. No. 97-02, Amended, 07/02/97)


(Ord. 2008-22, Amended, 10/01/2008, Prior Text; Ord. 2005-22, Amended, 11/16/2005, Prior Text; Ord. 2003-28, Amended, 12/04/2003, Prior Text)