A. Establishment And Purpose:
1. Establishment: A site plan review committee (hereafter referred to as the committee) is hereby established to exercise those duties outlined in this chapter and those conferred directly by the city council. This committee shall also serve as the subdivision plan review committee referenced in title 16, chapter 16.12 of this code.
2. Purpose: The committee is to serve, protect, and promote the public interest by meeting to review conceptual land use and development requests prior to permitting and subject to this code to determine permissibility of subject use or development; apply standards and conditions to subject use or development; provide recommendations and assistance to developers and the general public; create or revise, as necessary, procedural protocols relating to land use and development; and respond to other unique situations of land use or development that may arise.
B. Membership: The site plan review committee membership shall include the following people or their designees: the building official, the water superintendent, the city engineer, the fire marshal, the street superintendent, the sanitation superintendent, the city attorney and the director, who shall serve as chair. Other members may be added as deemed necessary by the committee.
C. Duties: The committee shall meet to consider all land use and development applications as required by the adopted development protocols. Comments made at any meeting and/or the written synopsis shall not be considered permission to proceed with either site preparation or construction, nor is either a complete list of requirements for approval of a reviewed project. (Ord. 2896, 2011: Ord. 2846 § 1, 2008)