Sec. 656.324. - Water Dependent—Water Related Category.

This mixed use category is intended primarily for land uses that require deep water access to the St. Johns River. The primary purpose of the category is to protect and support orderly expansion of the Port of Jacksonville. Major uses allowed in this land use category, therefore, include ports, harbors, industrial docks, related transportation, storage and similar other uses. Other water dependent uses, which may not be related to the port such as utility plants, water related recreation facilities, and fishing villages along with supporting commercial and public facilities are also permissible activities in appropriate locations. The following primary and secondary zoning districts may be considered in the land use category depicted on the Future Land Use Maps of the Comprehensive Plan. A. Primary zoning districts. The primary zoning districts shall include the following: (1) Industrial Water (IW) District; Section 656.324 . Ports, harbors, industrial docks and ancillary/accessory uses such as railroad yards, storage and distribution facilities are the primary land uses in industrial water district. Nonmanufacturing, storage, processing, transportation, dredge disposal and other similar uses, which are related to and support the port are also permitted, even though they may not require deep water access. All the uses permitted in these districts are described below. I. Industrial Water (IW) District. (a) Permitted uses and structures. (1) Piers, docks and wharves. (2) Terminals for freight or passengers arriving or departing by ship. (3) Facilities for construction, maintenance and repair of vessels. (4) Ship supply establishments and facilities. (5) Wholesale and retail establishments dealing primarily in bulk materials delivered by ship and railroad or by ship and truck in combination. (6) Military installations, other than residential. (7) Heliports. (8) Radio, television and telephone transmission and relay stations and towers. (9) Hiring halls and other places of assembly for registration for or assignment of employment primarily related to uses within the district. (10) Uses which are directly related to port activities such as: (i) Freight, trucking, shipping or other transportation terminals. (ii) Distribution centers, packaging and crating operations. (iii) Offices. (iv) Warehousing and storage, including open storage but not bulk storage of flammable liquids. (v) Manufacturing and processing. (vi) Service activities such as commercial parking lots or garages, restaurants (including drive-in or drive-thru restaurants), including the retail sales and service of beer and wine and clinics in connection with industrial activities. (vii) Scrap processing, indoor, clean, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (viii) Bulk storage of flammable liquids, but not refining or processing. (11) Dredge disposal. (12) Essential services, including water, sewer, gas, telephone, radio and electric, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (b) Permitted accessory uses. (1) See Section 656.403 . (2) Residential facilities (including not more than one mobile home) located on the same premises as an industrial use for the use of watchmen or caretakers whose employment requires residence on the premises. (c) The following uses are permitted by right within an Industrial Sanctuary or otherwise permissible by exception. (1) A commercial or industrial use that can be demonstrated to be directly related to port activities, including retail sale and service of alcoholic beverages for either on-premises consumption or off-premises consumption, or both, not otherwise provided for. (2) Outdoor storage of scrap or processed scrap generated through scrap processing. (3) Utility plants. (4) Water-related recreation facilities. (5) Commercial Marinas. (6) Churches, including a rectory and similar uses, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (7) Essential services, including water, sewer, gas, telephone, radio and electric, meeting the performance standards and development criteria set forth in Part 4. (d) Minimum lot requirements (width and area). None. (e) Minimum lot coverage by all building. None. Impervious surface ratio as required by Section 654.129 . (f) Minimum yard requirements. None. (g) Maximum height of structures. None. (h) Limitations on permitted or permissible uses by exception. All of the permitted and permissible uses by exception in the IW District are subject to the provision that noise levels from an activity shall not exceed 75 dbA at a point where the lot adjoins a commercial district and 65 dbA at a point where the district adjoins a residential district. B. Secondary zoning districts. The following secondary zoning districts may be permitted in the Water Dependent-Water Related Category as depicted on the Future Land Use Map series of the Comprehensive Plan, subject to the district regulations for same. (1) Public Buildings and Facilities-1 (PBF-1); Section 656.332 . (2) Public Buildings and Facilities-2 (PBF-2); Section 656.332 . (3) Agriculture (AGR); Section 656.331 . (4) Reserved. (5) Conservation (CSV); Section 656.333 . (6) Planned Unit Development (PUD); Section 656.340 . The aforementioned secondary zoning, districts may be permitted, provided that the supplemental criteria and standards for same specified in Subpart G, Part 3 are met. (Ord. 91-59-148, § 1; Ord. 91-761-410, § 1; Ord. 91-1290-590, § 3; Ord. 2007-560-E, § 1; Ord. 2019-375-E , § 1)