19.44.100 Recreation, outdoor.
A. Outdoor Recreation Use Category. Commercial uses, varying in size, providing daily or regularly scheduled recreation-oriented activities. Activities take place predominately outdoors or within outdoor structures. Outdoor recreation category includes, but is not limited to:
1. Drive-in theater.
2. Camp, campground, travel trailer park, recreational vehicle park.
3. Extreme sports facility such as paintball, BMX, or skateboarding.
4. Golf course.
5. Outdoor commercial activity such as batting cage, golf driving range, amusement park, miniature golf facility, water park.
6. Outdoor theater.
7. Outdoor sports or entertainment facility.
8. Riding stable.
9. Shooting range.
10. Racetrack.
11. Sports academy for active recreational or competitive sports.
12. Stadium, arena.
B. Outdoor Recreation Use Standards. A facility designed to accommodate 200 or more patrons at one time may only be allowed through securing a conditional use permit.
C. Campground.
1. Definition. An area to be used for transient occupancy by camping in tents, camp trailers, travel trailers, motor homes, or similar movable or temporary sleeping quarters of any kind.
D. Golf Course.
1. Definition. A facility providing a private or public golf recreation area designed for executive or regulation play along with accessory golf support facilities, but excluding miniature golf.
E. Marinas and Boat Moorage.
1. Definition. A use of land involved in the operation of a marina, including structures and activities normally integral to the operation of a marina, such as servicing, fueling, pumping-out, and chartering. Marinas may include accessory retail and equipment storage uses that directly support water-dependent activities per the Shoreline Master Program.
F. Recreational Vehicle Park (RV Park).
1. Definition. Land containing two or more campsites which are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by people in recreation vehicles or travel trailers which are used for recreation or vacation purposes.
2. Minimum Standards. Recreational vehicle parks must meet the minimum standards of the Washington Department of Social and Health Services and the county health department.
3. Streets and Recreational Vehicle Spaces. The arrangement, type, extent, width, grade, and location of all streets and sidewalks must be considered in their relation to existing and planned streets, topographical conditions, and public convenience and safety, and in their relation to the proposed uses of the land to be served by such streets. The RV park must make appropriate provisions for:
a. Open spaces and landscaping.
b. Drainage ways.
c. Streets, alleys, sidewalks and other public ways.
d. Water service.
e. Sanitary waste disposal.
f. Parks and playgrounds.
g. Other utilities.
All recreational vehicle spaces must be provided with safe and convenient access from abutting streets or roads. Alignment and gradients of roads must be adapted to topography. Surfaces of roads must be smooth, hard, dense and well drained.
Exposed or disturbed ground surfaces in all parts of every recreational vehicle space must be covered with gravel or other material, or protected with a vegetative cover, to minimize erosion.
4. Internal Design.
a. Recreational vehicle spaces must be arranged to facilitate placement and removal of vehicles from individual spaces.
b. Accessory facilities must be designed and located for safe and convenient use by occupants of the park, but so as to inhibit their use by nonoccupants.
c. Recreational vehicle spaces must be separated from each other and from other structures to allow at least 10 feet of separation between parked vehicles and structures.
d. The density must not exceed 20 recreational vehicle spaces per acre of gross site area.
e. All recreational vehicle spaces should be located at least 25 feet from a public street or highway right-of-way and must be set back 10 feet from interior roadways.
f. The Director may require that recreational vehicle parks located adjacent to industrial or commercial land uses provide screening such as fences or natural growth along the property boundary lines separating the park from such uses.
g. At least one-twelfth of the area of the recreational vehicle park must be developed for a park, open space, or playground area for use of the RV park occupants. The area must be located so as to conveniently serve all patrons of the recreational vehicle park. Recreation areas may include space for recreation buildings and common facilities such as a laundry.
5. Water Supply. The City Engineer must require that any water supply system which is installed be designed to provide an adequate accessible water supply for fire protection purposes. The water supply system must meet standards published by the Insurance Services Office: Guide for Determination of Required Fire-Flow.
6. Sewage Disposal. All sewage disposal systems must meet the minimum standards of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, the Washington State Department of Ecology, and the county health department. The means for sewage disposal must be subject to approval by the City Engineer.
7. Solid Waste. The recreational vehicle park developer must assure that provisions for collection and disposal of solid waste are available. The means for solid waste collection and disposal must be subject to approval by the City Engineer.
8. Required Facilities. All recreational vehicle parks having more than eight spaces must have approved facilities for laundry, showers, and restrooms for users of the park.
9. Retail Sales. No retail sales uses are allowed within the park unless a specific site for such use, intended to primarily serve park users, is approved by the City Council as part of the conditional use permit.
10. Ownership. In all cases the entire area of an RV park must be maintained in single ownership.
G. Shooting Range, Outdoor.
1. Definition. An outdoor facility designed and improved to encompass shooting stations or firing lines, target areas, berms and baffles, and/or other related components. (Ord. 3040 § 2 (Att. A), 2019)