17.52.140 Commission action – General development plan and change of zone application.
   (A)   If the Council has approved the preliminary development plan in its entirety with or without conditions, the applicant shall file with the principal planning and building official a filing fee as established by City Council resolution or any amendments thereto, which resolution shall establish not only the amount of fee, but also the time and manner of payment thereof. The general development plan shall be prepared and endorsed by persons whose professional qualifications for preparing the plan have been approved by the principal planning and building official and shall be submitted with 30 copies thereof to the principal planning and building official. The general development plan shall include but not be limited to the following plans, maps and written textual material in support thereof:
      (1)   The same sepia map as submitted pursuant to § 17.52.100(A) with all modifications, deletions and additions thereto as required in the Council’s approval of the preliminary development plan;
      (2)   The same textual material, including maps attached thereto, as submitted pursuant to § 17.52.100(C) with all modifications, deletions and additions to such material as required in the Council’s approval of the preliminary development plan;
      (3)   A site plan of the area proposed for the PCD zone showing the proposed location of buildings, structures, open spaces, land areas to be used for parking and service activities related to the planned community development and the vehicular and pedestrian circulation patterns and their relationships within said site and to those land uses immediately adjacent to said site;
      (4)   Preliminary building plans, including floor plans and exterior elevations;
      (5)   Preliminary landscape plans for the site of the proposed PCD zone;
      (6)   Preliminary engineering plans for the site, including site grading, street improvements, drainage and public utility extensions;
      (7)   All information required to assist the Council in its determination as to any required fire zones within and without the site, including, but not limited to the proposed use and type of occupancy of the proposed buildings and structures, the height and size of each such building or structure and the distances between the structures or buildings and the property lines thereof;
      (8)   Such other information and data as required by the principal planning and building official and/or Commission.
   (B)   (1)   After the principal planning and building official and Director of Community Development and Public Works have approved the general development plan as to form and content, in writing, the Commission’s Secretary shall set a date for a public hearing by the Commission on the zone change application for a PCD zone and the general development plan. The date of the hearing shall be not less than 30 days and not more than 60 days from the date of the approval by the principal planning and building official and Director of Community Development and Public Works.
      (2)   Notice of the public hearing shall be given as provided in § 17.104.070(B) through (E); provided, however, that any notice thereof, including posted notice, shall bear the following words at the heading of said notice: "NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED CHANGE OF ZONE TO PLANNED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ON GENERAL PLANS FOR SAID ZONE." The Commission shall conduct its inquiry, hold its hearing and make its findings and decisions thereon in accordance with §§ 17.104.080 through 17.104.100; provided, however, the Commission may recommend to the City Council approval of the proposed change and general development plans only after it has made the findings required by said § 17.104.100 and has further found that all of the following conditions exist in relation to the requested PCD zone for the subject site thereof:
         (a)   The proposed planned development can be substantially completed within four years of the effective date of subject site being zoned PCD in combination with its existing basic zoning thereof; and
         (b)   That initial development of the first phase of the planned community development will be commenced and substantially completed within one year of the effective date of subject site being zoned PCD in combination with the existing basic zoning thereof; and
         (c)   That each individual phase of development with said site and the total development thereof will create and sustain a favorable environment for occupants and users of the site and the land immediately adjacent thereto; and
         (d)   The uses proposed within the site will not be detrimental to present and potential uses on property immediately adjacent to the site or to the residents or occupants of the property; and
         (e)   The proposed PCD zone on the subject site conforms to the city’s General Plan and is necessary and proper at this time; and
         (f)   The existing and proposed utilities and public facilities and services for subject site and its proposed development under PCD zoning are adequate to serve the population density and proposed land uses within said site.
(`78 Code, § 17.52.130.) (Ord. 2885 § 2 (part), 2007.)