(A) Under the authorization granted in R.C. Chapter 713 and by Council, the Planning Commission shall have the authority to decide applications for conditional uses specified in § 152.031, Master Use Table.
(1) In considering such applications the Planning Commission shall give due regard to the nature and condition of all adjacent uses and structures and may impose such requirements and conditions as the Planning Commission may deem necessary for the protection of adjacent properties and the public interest, including specific limitations as to future expansion.
(B) The following basic standards shall apply to conditional uses in all districts:
(1) The location and size of the use.
(2) The nature and intensity of the operations involved in or conducted in connection with it.
(3) Its site layout and its relation to streets giving access to it shall be such that both pedestrian and vehicular traffic to and from the use and the
assembly of persons in connection with it will not be obviously hazardous, inconvenient or conflict with the normal traffic on residential streets.
(4) Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan.
(5) Consideration shall also be made for current and projected impacts including increases in population, convenient routes of pedestrian traffic, approved but not constructed development plans, and the general character and intensity of development of the area.
(6) The location and height of buildings, the location, nature, and height of walls and fences, and the nature and extent of landscaping on the site shall be such that the use will not hinder or discourage the appropriate development and use of adjacent land and buildings.
(7) Convenience of access by prospective patrons and employees, the physical and economic relationships of one type of use to another, and characteristic groupings of uses in a commercial or industrial district.
(C) The Planning Commission shall follow the procedures as outlined in § 152.145.
(Ord. 2022-25, passed 3-21-2022)