(A) It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to establish a procedure which will enable the city to plan for and review proposed improvements of property within the city’s corporate and extraterritorial zoning districts, except for those zoning districts and properties listed in § 155.04(A) of this chapter.
(B) Thus, the site plan requirements of this chapter are designed to ensure the orderly and harmonious development of property in a manner that shall:
(1) Promote the most beneficial relation between the uses of land and the circulation of traffic throughout the city;
(2) Ensure adequate provisions for public utilities, services, facilities and rights-of-way;
(3) Encourage effective measures for surface and subsurface drainage;
(4) Provide suitable screening to buffer incompatible uses, to include parking, truck loading, refuse, outdoor storage and disposal, from adjacent residential districts; and
(5) All of the above in accordance with the Minimum Design Standards established by Section § 155.25 of this chapter.
(Ord. 2216, passed 11-4-2013; Ord. 2257, passed 9-8-2015)