Sec. 6.5.5. Self-Service Storage

  1. Self-Service Storage Use Category
    Facilities providing separate storage areas for personal or business use designed to allow private access by the tenant for storing or removing personal property. Self-service storage includes the following uses.
    1. Warehouse, self-service.
    2. Fully enclosed indoor multi-story storage.
    3. Mini-warehouse.
  2. Use Standards
    1. A self-storage facility in an CX- District is subject to the following.
      1. The minimum size of the site is at least 2 acres.
      2. All storage shall be contained within a fully-enclosed building. However, the storage of boats, RV’s or other similar vehicles may be permitted in accordance with Article 7.5. Outdoor Display and Storage.
      3. All storage units must be contained in a single building and accessed internally. For properties where an Urban Frontage is applied, storage units are not permitted on the ground floor. The outdoor storage of boats, RV’s or similar vehicles is not permitted.
    2. A self-storage facility in a DX- District is subject to the following:
      1. All storage shall be contained within a fully-enclosed building.
      2. All storage units must be contained in a single building and accessed internally. Storage units are not permitted on the ground floor. The outdoor storage of boats, RV’s or similar vehicles is not permitted.
    3. A self-storage facility in an IX- District is subject to the following:
      1. The minimum size of the site is at least 2 acres.
      2. All storage shall be contained within a fully-enclosed building. However, the storage of boats, RV’s or other similar vehicles may be permitted in accordance with Article 7.5. Outdoor Display and Storage.
    4. A self-storage facility in an OP- District is subject to the following:
      1. All storage shall be contained within a fully-enclosed building.
      2. All storage units must be contained in a single building and accessed internally.
      3. For properties where an Urban Frontage is applied, storage units are not permitted on the ground floor.
      4. The outdoor storage of boats, RV’s or similar vehicles is not permitted.
      5. The self-service storage facility shall not be located on a site with frontage along a rail corridor or on a site within 1,320 feet of a rail corridor.
      6. The self-storage facility use shall not be located above the fifth floor of a building.
      7. Notwithstanding the transparency requirements for buildings within the Office Park (OP-) district, each upper story devoted to this use shall have a minimum transparency of 10% per floor and a maximum transparency of 20% per floor.
      8. Excluding stairwells, internal illumination within upper stories of buildings dedicated to this use shall be screened so that internal light sources shall not be visible. Internal light fixtures directly visible from outside the structure shall be directed internally upward or shall be shielded to prevent such visibility. Sensor lighting shall be required for all internal illumination within upper stories of the building that contain this use and those lights shall automatically shut off after at most 20 minutes of inactivity.
      9. No more than 10% of the land area, individually or collectively, of all the parcels within a contiguous area zoned Office Park (OP-) can be developed as Self-Service Storage, provided however, that one selfservice storage facility shall be permitted in each contiguous multi-parcel area within each area zoned Office Park (OP-). Subsequent rezonings of existing Office Park (OP-) zoning within the contiguous area to other zoning districts shall not render an existing self-service storage use nonconforming