The Planning Commission or City Council shall approve an application for a conditional use if the proposed use complies with the requirements of the underlying zone(s) and reasonable conditions are proposed, or can be imposed, to mitigate the reasonably anticipated detrimental effects of the proposed use in accordance with the following standards and conditions:
A. Compatibility with or impact to neighboring properties:
1. Location Within Zone: The placement of conditional uses only in specific areas of a zoning district (i.e., along an arterial or collector street).
2. Site Configuration: Size, configuration, and location of the site, and proposed site plan layout.
3. Screening: The screening of yards or other areas as protection from certain land uses and activities.
4. Height: Limitations or controls on the location, height, and materials of walls, fences, hedges, and screen plantings to ensure harmony with adjacent development, or to conceal storage areas, utility installations, or other unsightly development.
5. Setbacks: The relocation of proposed or existing structures as necessary to provide for street widening or street placement within the area under application, as provided in the General Plan, adequate sight distances for general safety, groundwater control, or similar issues.
6. Density/Intensity/Livability: Modification to allowed population density and intensity of land use and activities where land capability and/or vicinity relationships make it appropriate to do so to protect health, safety, and welfare; and
The provision of useable open space, public features, and recreational amenities to serve the uses and activities on the site.
B. Safety Of Persons And Property:
1. Flooding: Building elevation and grading plans which will prevent or minimize flood water damage, where property may be subject to flooding.
2. Attractive Nuisances: The relocation, covering, or fencing of irrigation ditches, drainage channels, and other potential attractive nuisances existing on or adjacent to the property.
3. Setbacks: Increased setback distances from lot lines where it is determined to be necessary to ensure public safety and to ensure compatibility with the intended characteristics of the zoning district, or where the lot abuts an arterial or collector street.
4. Fault Lines: Appropriate design, construction, and location of structures, buildings, and facilities in relation to an earthquake fault which may exist on the property, and limitations and/or restrictions to use and/or location of use due to special site conditions, including but not limited to, geologically hazardous areas, flood plains, fault zones, and landslide areas other than may be required by the sensitive lands overlay development regulations.
5. Signs And Similar Structures: Limitations and control of the number, location, color, size, height, lighting, and landscaping of signs and structures in relation to the creation of traffic hazards.
6. Loading Zones: Plans for the location, arrangement, and dimensions of truck loading and unloading facilities.
7. Street Features: Construction of curbs, gutters, drainage culverts, sidewalks, streets, fire hydrants, and street lighting.
C. Health And Sanitation:
1. Water: A guarantee of sufficient water to serve the intended land use and a water-delivery system to meet the needs of the proposed use and development.
2. Wastewater: A wastewater disposal system and a solid waste-disposal system to meet the needs of the proposed use and development.
3. Utilities: Construction of water mains, sewer mains, and drainage facilities serving the proposed use, in sizes necessary to protect existing utility users in the zoning district and to provide for an orderly development of land.
4. Trash Collection: Provision of appropriate storage and collection areas for trash and refuse generated by the use and development.
5. Snow Removal: Sufficient space on the property to manage and store snow during the winter season
D. Environment:
1. Sensitive Areas: Limitations and/or restrictions on the use and/or location of uses in sensitive areas due to soils capabilities, wildlife, and plant life.
2. Pollution: Processes/designs for the control, elimination, or prevention of land, water, or air pollution.
3. Erosion: The prevention of soil erosion.
4. Odors: The control of objectionable odors.
5. Noise: The control of objectionable noise; and
Fencing, screening and landscape treatments and other features designed to protect adjoining property owners from noise.
6. Dust: The prevention of dust or debris.
7. Light: No light pollution.
8. Nuisance: Measures directed at minimizing or eliminating potential nuisance factors including, but not limited to noise, vibrations, smoke, dust, dirt, odors, gases, noxious matter, heat, glare, electromagnetic disturbances, and radiation.
9. Natural Conditions: Measures designed to protect the natural features of the site, including wetlands and drainage ways, around water protection, wildlife habitat, historic and archeological site protection, and other natural site features.
E. Traffic, Circulation, And Parking:
1. Traffic: The proposed use and development shall not generate enough traffic to be detrimental to the immediate neighborhood, overload the carrying capacity for which local streets were designed, shall not reduce the performance of existing roads from their current level of service, and shall provide safe site ingress and egress to existing and proposed roads and streets.
2. Circulation: Internal traffic circulation shall not adversely affect adjacent residential properties. The site shall provide sufficient circulation to manage loading and unloading, deliveries, and queueing of vehicles without such activities leaving the site and impacting adjacent roads.
3. Parking: Parking facilities shall not adversely affect neighboring properties, shall be effectively screened from adjacent residential properties. The relationship between structures and parking shall be complimentary to the aesthetics of the general area. The location and amount of off-street parking and loading areas shall be sufficient to serve the proposed use and development. There shall be sufficient parking to serve the proposed use and development and to store snow removed from the parking areas during winter months.
(Ord. 2023-09, 12-12-2023)