Chapter 854.5 — SITE PLAN REVIEW

• A. Purpose. The purpose of the Site Plan Review process is to provide a tool to enable the Director to ensure that projects and proposals, either approved through a separate discretionary land use permit or by right, meet the property development standards of the zone in which the property is located and/or are developed in a manner consistent with the approved land use permit, if applicable, through review of detailed site development and structure plans.

• B. Applicability. When a Site Plan Review is required by this Zoning Ordinance, the procedures of this Chapter shall apply. Before any building or structure is erected on any parcel in the applicable districts noted below, a Site Plan Review shall have been submitted to and approved by the Director or his designee pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.

Applicable districts are: R-2 and R-2-A (for uses other than a single family residence); R-3; R-4; TP; RP; CP; C-1; C-2; C-3; C-4; C-5; C-6; AC; RCC; CR; CM; M-1; M-2; M-3; RS (for those uses subject to a CUP); and A-1 (for two-family dwellings, multi-family, commercial or industrial buildings except for those uses permitted by-right or with a Director Review and Approval in the AE, AL and A-2 zone districts)

• A. Filing. An application for a Site Plan Review, together with the required fee in compliance with the Master Fee Schedule, shall be filed with the Department in compliance with Chapter 838.5 (Application Filing, Processing, and Fees).

• B. Contents. The application shall be accompanied by detailed and fully dimensioned plans, architectural drawings/sketches, elevations, floor plans, landscape plans, and/or any other data/materials specified in the most up-to-date Department handout for Site Plan Review applications. Specifically, five prints and electronic copies in PDF format of detailed and fully dimensioned plans shall be submitted, drawn to scale, and shall indicate clearly and with full dimensioning all of the following information:

  1. Access. Points of ingress and egress and internal circulation for all pedestrian and vehicular service;

  2. Landscaping. In the "RCC," "C-P," "C-1," "C-2," "C-3," and "C-R" zones, the location of all proposed landscaping shall be shown;

  3. Lighting. Location and general nature and holding devices;

  4. Off-street loading. Location, dimensions, individual spaces, and internal circulation;

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5. Off-street parking. Location, number of individual spaces and dimensions of parking area, and internal circulation patterns;

6. Property dimensions. Bearings in DMS format and distances in decimal feet;

7. Signs. Location, size, material, and height;

8. Streets. Street dedications and improvements, in compliance with Section 822.3.030 (Dedications and Improvements Required);

9. Structures. Location, elevations, size, height, and existing/proposed use;

10. Utilities. Location of existing and proposed utilities;

11. Walls and fences. Location, height and materials;

12. Yards and space between structures; and

13. Other data. Other data as may be required to allow the Director to make the required determinations.

Within 50 days following the Director’s determination of completeness in compliance with Section 838.5.100 (Initial Application Review), the Director shall approve, or approve with requirements deemed necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare the Site Plan Review application.

• A. Dated and signed by Director. The approved Site Plan Review including any requirements shall be dated and signed by the Director.

  • C. Mailed to applicant. One copy of the approved Site Plan Review including any requirements shall be mailed to the applicant.

Revisions requested by the applicant to an approved Site Plan Review shall be made in compliance with the procedure specified in Section 868.6.100 (Changes to an Approved Project).

An Occupancy Permit for a structure or use as shown on an approved Site Plan Review shall not be issued until all proposed structures and other stated improvements in an indivisible project or phase of a divisible project are completed, or the Director authorizes its issuance upon determining that all on-site and off-site requirements relating to the structure(s) or use have been or will be met.

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Before a Building Permit may be issued for any structure, the Director shall first determine that all of the following are true:

• A. In compliance with Site Plan Review. The proposed structure(s) is/are in compliance with the approved Site Plan Review and any requirements.

B. Agreement and performance guarantees required.

1. All required on-site (outside the County right-of-way) and off-site (within the County right-of-way) improvements shall have either been completed, or if not completed, the permittee shall have entered into an agreement with the County to complete the work within 180 days from the date of the issuance of the Building Permit, in compliance with Section 868.6.070 (Performance Guarantees).

2. The Director may extend the completion date for one additional 180-day period upon written request of the permittee and upon a showing of good cause for the request.

3. The security shall be in the amount of 100 percent of the estimated cost of completion of all required improvements to be determined by the Director.

   4. All of the required dedications have been given.

The procedures relating to changes, performance guarantees, and revocation that are identified in Article 6 (Zoning Ordinance Administration) and those identified in Chapter 868.6 (Permit Implementation, Time Limits, Extensions and Revocation) shall apply following the action on a Site Plan Review application.

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