(A) Development plan required.
(1) A development plan shall be required whenever a subdivision is established as defined in KRS 100.111(22).
(2) A development plan shall be required for all applications for development or changes in a use that are not exempt from the Planning Commission development plan review by § 154.125
(B).
(3) The City Planner shall review all development plan applications to determine if the application is complete or if additional information is needed. Upon determination that the application is complete, it shall be referred to the Planning Commission for review.
(B) Development plan exemptions. The following are exempted from development plan review by Planning Commission. A development plan review by the City Planner is still required along with the application and issuance of applicable permits for the following items:
(2) All expansion of existing non-residential uses representing an increase in floor area and/or parking area that is ten (10) percent or less of the existing building square footage but does not exceed a combined square footage of over ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
(3) Modifications to sites involving changes to landscaping, parking, or loading without the expansion of such items.
(4) Accessory structures and uses.
(5) Temporary structures and uses.
(6) Signs.
(C) Contents of development plan.
(1) Preliminary and final development plan. The Planning Commission may require a preliminary development plan and a final development plan or, depending on the complexity of the project, the Commission may waive the preliminary development plan requirement.
(2) Contents of preliminary development plan. A preliminary development plan shall contain the following information:
(a) Vicinity sketch;
(b) Applicable zoning district, vicinity, location, arrangements, and approximate dimensions of existing and proposed driveways, streets, street names and addresses, sidewalks, parking areas, and arrangement of spaces, points of ingress and egress, vehicular and pedestrian rights-of-way, and any manmade conditions or structures;
(c) Screening, landscaping, buffering, recreational, and other open space areas;
(d) Approximate size, location, height, floor area, arrangement, and use of proposed and existing buildings and signs;
(e) Storm drainage areas indicating adjoining property;
(f) Proposed and existing easements;
(g) Morehead Utility Plan Board certification (gas, water, and sewer);
(h) Electric company certification; and
(i) Submittals must meet architectural and engineering standards.
(3) Contents of final development plan. A final development plan shall contain the following information:
(a) Four (4) complete sets of plans drawn to scale with compass point at a scale of between one (1) inch equals twenty (20) feet and one (1) inch equals forty (40) feet;
(b) Submittals must meet architectural and engineering standards;
(c) Topography map or plot plan with contour intervals not greater than two (2) feet for the entire plot and indicating adjoining property. This may be waived at the discretion of the Planning Commission;
(d) Boundary features such as bearings and distances of all property lines;
(e) Complete drainage plan including parking lot and yard drainage, street access and curb cuts, and curb gutter and sidewalk sections. There must be no drainage of surface water onto a public street. All costs associated shall be borne by the developer;
(f) Size, location, height, floor area, and arrangement of proposed and existing buildings to the extent known or anticipated;
(g) Screening, landscaping, buffering, recreational, and other open space areas showing the dimensions of and materials of the fences, plantings, buffer, and other open space areas;
(h) Submittals must show applicable zoning districts, vicinity, location, arrangement, and dimensions, street cross section drawings, sidewalks, parking areas including number of off-street parking spaces, walkways from parking to building entrances, points of ingress and egress within the development, off-street loading areas, and other vehicular and pedestrian rights-of-way;
(i) Utility information such as proposals for gas, water, electricity, parking lot lighting, dumpster location and enclosure, stormwater and sanitary sewer lines, fire hydrants, and other similar elements; and
(j) Location and dimension of other existing or proposed easements.
(Ord. 22:2019, passed 6-10-19)