No use or construction for which a site plan is required shall be established or commenced until a site plan application has been submitted to and approved by the Planning Commission. No permit shall be issued by any city official for the construction of any building or improvement in any area subject to a site plan except in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance and the duly approved site plan. No Certificate of Occupancy shall be issued unless in compliance with an approved site plan.
A site plan application and related information as required by this ordinance shall be submitted for the following:
(a) In commercial and industrial districts, including C-1, C-2, C-3, O and M-1, and in the PD District, any new construction, substantial renovation, or expansion of a building, parking lot, loading facility, or the establishment of any use.
(b) In residential districts, including R-1A, R-1B, R-1, R-2, and in the PD District, any new construction, substantial renovation, or expansion of a commercial, multifamily, public, or institutional building, boarding house, rooming house, bed and breakfast inn, hospital, private club or lodge, tourist home, nursing home, school of commerce, office, parking lot, loading facility.
In residential districts, including R-1A, R-1B, R-1, and R-2, any new subdivision which creates more than five new lots.
(c) Any substantial change, as determined by the Director of Planning and Development, to a previously approved site plan application.
(d) Any change in use of an existing building or accessory building or of a site to a different use, including but not limited to the change of: an existing residential use to a commercial, industrial, multifamily, boarding house, or rooming house use; an existing non-residential use to a residential use; an industrial to a commercial use; a commercial to an industrial use; a public, semi-public, or institutional use to any other use.
(e) A conditionally permitted use.
(f) A variance to parking or loading requirements as provided for in 1349.01(e) of this Zoning Ordinance.
(g) In any district, the creation of a condominium by conversion of an existing building or buildings involving physical modification of the property or a transfer of responsibility for the maintenance of common areas to a condominium association.
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11; Ord. 21-72AC CMS. Passed 11-15-21.)