Office Relocation in Tualatin, Where the Office Is a Quarter of the Building

A limited use, on an industrial site

Chapters 60 and 61 of the Tualatin Development Code set the rules for the Light Manufacturing (ML) and General Manufacturing (MG) zones; the Leveton Drive employment area off Herman Road is MG. Both chapters list office as a permitted use with a limitation attached; both require it to sit on the same site as a permitted industrial use, and both stop it at a quarter of the gross floor area of all the buildings there. Both add that "use categories which are not listed are prohibited within the zone."

What that decides about the unit you are moving into

A business whose office half has outgrown its shop half cannot simply take a larger suite down the road and leave the equipment behind. The second address carries its own zone and its own quarter, which your broker settles before the lease. We ask for both unit numbers on the first call because the two buildings are usually two separate problems.

The one thing the zone lets you do outdoors

Both chapters open their development standards with the same sentence: "All uses must be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except off-street parking and loading, Basic Utilities, Wireless Communication Facilities and outdoor play areas of child day care centers." On an ordinary day, that is a rule about operations. On a move day, it is a map. The loading area and the parking lot are the only ground outside the walls the zone hands you, so our crew wraps, pads, and stages inside the unit, and the open air is kept for the truck.

A letter in front of every room name

We tag each label with an O for the new office area or an S for the shop or stockroom, then the room: O-Reception, O-Office 3, S-Parts. At the new building, our crew sends O items in through the front and S items in at the loading door, so each inventory lands in its own area. The letter also settles which opening a piece leaves by at the old unit, which is what makes two lines possible at once.

Two lines need a person on each letter at the far end. With nobody on a letter, every load goes to the first clear patch of floor, and shifting it again falls to your staff after we have gone.

What our crew moves from the shop side

Workbenches, emptied metal shelving, supply cabinets, boxed parts, and the lockers from a break area are pieces our crew moves. Pallet racking, machinery, and anything needing a forklift stay with the specialists who rig them, and hazardous materials stay off our truck. Send a list of what is back there, and we sort it into those two columns.

Heavy office pieces, and the rack in the closet

Lateral files, a petty-cash safe, and large printers are the office items that need a plan; empty those drawers, or lock them if we agree they can travel full. The phone and network gear goes on the truck once your IT provider has taken it down, which is a boundary we hold to. Book that provider for the morning, because a rack still live when the crew reaches it stays where it is.