A site plan shall be submitted for review and approval prior to the issuance of a building permit as follows:
(a) Planning Commission Level. The Planning Commission shall review the following site plans:
(1) Any new principal commercial, office, industrial, business or institutional use or a residential use having more than two dwellings.
(2) Special land uses and planned unit developments.
(3) Existing commercial, industrial, business or institutional uses and buildings or residential uses having more than two dwellings proposed to be increased in size fifty percent or more of the existing building or use. The existing size shall be determined by the gross square footage of an existing building, or if the principal use is primarily out of doors, then the land area occupied by the use shall be used to determine the existing size.
(4) Accessory buildings which are more than fifty percent of the size of the largest principal building on site.
(b) Staff Level. The Community Development Director shall review the following site plans or may refer such plans to the Planning Commission.
(1) Expansion of an existing use or building which comprises less than fifty percent of a building or less than fifty percent of the land area occupied by a use which is principally outdoors.
(2) A building which is accessory to the principal building if such accessory building is no more than one half of the size of the largest principal building on site.
(3) A change in the use of a property which results in the need for more parking spaces.
(Ord. 390. Passed 3-6-01.)