(A) Conditional use permits may be issued for any of the following:
(1) Any of the uses or purposes for which such permits are required of permitted by the provisions of this chapter, except as provided in division (B) below;
(2) Public utility or public service uses or public buildings in any district when found to be necessary for the public health, safety, convenience or welfare;
(3) Commercial excavating of natural materials used for building or construction purposes, in any district;
(4) To classify as a conforming use any institutional use existing in any district; and
(5) To permit the location of any of the following uses in a district from which they are excluded by the provisions of this chapter: airport, library, community center, church, hospital, any institution of an educational, philanthropic or charitable nature, cemetery, crematory, mausoleum or any other place for the disposal of the human dead.
(B) (1) Applications for the issuance of a conditional use permit shall be made to the Planning Commission; except that, any proceedings to classify certain uses as conforming uses as provided in this section may be initiated either by such application or by the City Council or the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission may hold such hearings on the proposal to issue a conditional use permit as it may consider necessary; but at least one public hearing shall be held on any application for a use permit for the establishment of any use listed in division (A)(5) above. Following the hearing, the Planning Commission shall make a report to the Council upon the proposal and shall recommend the granting of a permit unless it finds that the establishment, maintenance or conducting of the use for which a permit is sought will not under the circumstances of the particular case be detrimental:
(a) To the health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience or welfare of the persons residing or working in the neighborhood of such use; or
(b) To the public welfare or injurious to property or improvements in the neighborhood.
(2) It may designate conditions and require guarantees in the granting of use permits in the manner provided in § 903.05 of this chapter for the granting of adjustments. Upon receipt of the report of the Planning Commission, the Council shall hold whatever public hearing it deems advisable and shall make a decision upon the proposal to grant a use permit. If it finds that the conditions exist which are necessary under this section before the Planning Commission may recommend the granting of a use permit, the Council may grant the use permit and it may attach to the permit such conditions and guarantees as are provided for in § 903.02 of this chapter for the granting of adjustments.
(C) Any use permitted under the terms of any conditional use permit shall be established and conducted in conformity to the terms of such permit and of any condition designated in connection therewith.
(D) Upon consideration of the factors listed above and the purpose of this chapter, the Planning Commission may attach such conditions to the granting of conditional use permits as it deems necessary to fulfill the purposes of this chapter. Such conditions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Modification of waste disposal and water supply facilities;
(2) Limitations on period of use, occupancy and operation;
(3) Imposition of operational controls, sureties and deed restrictions;
(4) Requirements for construction of channel modifications, dikes, levees and other protective measures; and
(5) Flood-proofing measures, in accordance with the state’s Building Code. The applicant shall submit a plan or document certified by a registered professional engineer or architect that the flood-proofing measures are consistent with the regulatory flood protection elevation and associated flood factors for the particular area.