§ 20.04.260. Special permits generally.  


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  • A.

    The city council may by special permit after hearing and report by the city plan commission authorize the location of the uses subject to special permits identified in the district regulations.

    B.

    In addition to the development standards identified in this title, city council shall impose such additional conditions and safeguards including those related to architecture, site plan, landscape planting and screening as required to protect the public welfare and to conserve and protect property and property values in the immediate vicinity of the special permit.

    C.

    Applications for special permits shall be filed with the executive secretary of the city plan commission. The application shall be reviewed by the planning division for completeness and shall not be processed until any missing information is supplied by the applicant and the fee has been received. A complete application shall be scheduled for action by the city plan commission, which shall have forty-five days in which to recommend approval, disapproval or approval with conditions or amendments.

    D.

    Where disapproval is recommended the procedure shall be concluded unless the applicant within fifteen days of disapproval appeals the recommendation to city council. In the event of such a request the executive secretary of the city plan commission shall forward to the city council a statement of the reasons for disapproval.

    E.

    Applications for special permits shall include a detailed site development plan that complies with Article III.

    F.

    Special permits are automatically terminated whenever conditions made a part of them are not complied with, and construction shall stop or occupancy be discontinued until the violation ceases.

    G.

    The fee required by this section and Section 20.04.410 of this Code, and established by the city council in accordance with Section 20.04.800 of this Code, pertaining to properties located within the boundaries of the Tax Increment Financing Zone No. 5, and any neighborhood empowerment zone which may be designated by a resolution of the city council, shall be reduced by one hundred percent for the period from the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter through August 31, 2008; reduced by eighty percent for the period from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009; reduced by sixty percent for the period from September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010; reduced by forty percent for the period from September 1, 2010 through August 31, 2011; and reduced by twenty percent for the period from September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2012.

(Ord. 16877 § 2, 2008; Ord. 16653 § 2 (part), 2007)