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<br />Shops and Offices for contractors have been a permitted use in the LI, Ligh t Industrial <br />District since at least 1971. The use is described in the zoning ordinance as follows: <br /> <br /> Construction -related businesses, including s hops and offices for plumbing, <br />heating, gl azing, painting, paper hanging, roofing, ventilating, electrical, carpentry, <br />welding, landscaping, excavating, general contracting and similar uses, including <br />contractor storage of equipment and building materials if enclosed within a building, but <br />not storage yards. <br /> <br />Storage Yards are defined in the zoning ordi nanc e as follows: <br /> <br /> Exterior Storage/Storage Yards: An outside area where equipment, vehicles, <br />trailers, or material relating to the principal use of a parcel of land is stored. This <br />includes semi -trucks and t railers. The stored items are not for sale or display but are <br />used in the everyday operation of the principal use. Also referred to as “outdoor <br />storage” Outdoor sales lots are not outdoor storage but are distinct uses regulated by <br />this ordinance. <br /> <br />E xter ior s torage , referred to as Open and Outdoor Storage, accessory to the principal use <br />is only allowed by conditional use permit in the LI, Light Industrial District. <br /> <br />A conditional use is defined in the ordi n ance as: <br /> <br /> A land or developme nt that may not be appropriate generally with in a certain <br />district but may be allowed in that district with appropriate restriction s , conditions or <br />limitations as imposed by the City Council. <br /> <br />An accessory use is defined in the ordinance as: <br /> <br /> A use of land or of a buil ding or portion thereof customarily incidental and <br />subordinate to the principal use of the land or building and located on the same lot with <br />such principal use. <br /> <br />A principal use is defined in the ordinance as: <br /> <br /> The primary or predominant use of any lot an d/or building. <br /> <br />City records indicate that the property received a Conditional Use Permit in 1982. It is <br />not clear from the record what the conditional use permit was issued for other than <br />expansion of the existing building. However, it is clear that at that time the property met <br />the conditional use permit requirements as follows: <br /> <br /> Open storage of materials and equipment when fenced and screened relating to <br />the principal use. <br /> <br />In February of 2000 the City amended the Zoning Ordinance related to outside st orage in <br />the LI, Light Indu s trial Zoning District. While still allowed by conditional use permit , <br />outdoor storage accessory to a permitted use was further restricted by the following <br />additional provisions: