In reviewing any application for a conditional use permit, the Planning Commission shall consider whether there is adequate evidence that the proposed conditionally permitted use is consistent with the following review standards:
(a) The proposed use is an identified conditional use as established under the provisions of the zoning district use regulations as set forth in the Land Use Matrix Table in Section 1129.07.
(b) The proposed use will be harmonious with and in accordance with the general objectives or with any specific objective of the Zoning Code, Comprehensive Plan or any other relevant planning document.
(c) The proposed use will be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained in a manner that is appropriate and compatible in appearance with the existing or intended character of the general vicinity and such use will not change the essential character of the same area.
(d) The proposed use will not be hazardous or disturbing to existing or future residential land uses.
(e) The proposed use will be served adequately by essential public facilities and services such as highways, streets, police and fire protection, drainage structures, refuse disposal, water and sewer, and schools; or that the persons or agencies responsible for the establishment of the proposed use shall be able to provide adequately any of those services.
(f) The proposed use will not create excessive additional requirements at public cost for public facilities and services and will not be detrimental to the economic welfare of the community.
(g) The proposed use will not involve uses, activities, processes, materials, equipment, or operations that will be detrimental to any persons, property, or the general welfare by reason of excessive production of traffic, noise, smoke, fumes, glare, or odors.
(h) The proposed use will have vehicular approaches to the property which shall be designed as not to create an interference with the traffic level of service nor create increased traffic safety risks on surrounding public or private roadways.
(i) The proposed use will not impede the normal and orderly development and improvement of the adjacent properties and surrounding area for uses permitted in the zoning district.
(j) Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements. When applicable, minimum standards for parking and loading shall be as required in Chapter 1149
, Off-Street Parking and Loading Facilities, of this Zoning Code.
(k) Buffering and Screening Requirements. When a conditional use includes fields, courts, or any outdoor business or non-business related operations or activities within any required yard, such areas shall be setback at least ten feet from a side or rear lot line of an adjacent or abutting residential zoning district or residential land use and twenty feet from an adjoining public or private street. Within such setback areas, there shall be constructed and/or suitably planted buffer screening so as to effectively screen such fields, courts or other outdoor activity areas in one or a combination of the following methods:
(1) Landscaping which shall include substantial dense, all season plantings at least four feet high, covering the entire length of the required setback area; or
(2) Substantially solid wall or fence erected to a height of not less than four feet nor more than six feet, with accompanying landscaping; or
(3) When unique physical conditions and circumstances exist due to the topography, existing structures or existing landscaping and such conditions and circumstances provide an alternative method of effectively screening the fields, courts or other outdoor activity areas, the manner of screening may be modified to incorporate those unique physical conditions and circumstances as approved by the Planning Commission.
(l) When applicable, minimum standards for architectural design or exterior material requirements and site design guidelines provided for in the zoning district for which the proposed conditional use may be located shall apply.
(m) The specific standards, as set forth in Section 1143.04, shall also be satisfied for those identified conditional uses.
(Ord. 2022-24. Passed 5-24-22.)