(A) Districts Permitted; Permit Required: No well for use as an injection well and no well for the exploration, development or production of oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances may be drilled, and no related accessory or ancillary equipment, structure or facilities thereto, of oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances, may be drilled or installed in any zone district other than the A, NR, I zone districts or in a DI zone district where the DI zone district is combined with an application for a tentative tract map upon which tentative tract map conditions of approval relating to the screening and landscaping of the DI zone district is approved by the city council; or within a PE overlay zone district in accordance with the provisions of section 6-10-2 of this chapter, until an application for a conditional use permit has been submitted to and approved by the planning commission, consistent with the provisions of section 6-2-5, "Conditional Use Permit", of this title. The planning commission may waive any condition set forth in the development standards and conditions if it determines that there will be no material detriment to the public welfare or safety of persons and property located in the vicinity of such a well.
(B) Nonhazardous Waste Disposal: Disposal of nonhazardous oil field liquid waste and production water is considered an accessory facility only if the facility complies with the following:
1. The nonhazardous oil field liquid waste or production water is produced and disposed of within the same designated oil field; or
2. The nonhazardous oil field liquid waste or production water disposed of outside the designated oil field of origin is produced by and disposed of solely and only by the same individual, corporation or entity.
(C) Term Of Permit: If a producing well or service well is not completed upon land subject to said conditional use permit within twelve (12) months from the date of issuance of the conditional use permit, or within any extended period thereof, the conditional use permit shall expire and the premises shall be restored as nearly as practicable to its original condition. No permit shall expire while the permittee is continuously conducting drilling, redrilling, completing or abandoning operations, or related operations, in a well on the lands covered by such permit, where operations were commenced while said permit was otherwise in effect. Continuous operations are operations not suspended more than thirty (30) consecutive days. If, at the expiration of the twelve (12) month period, the permittee has not completed the drilling program on the lands covered by such permit, the planning commission may, upon a written request of the permittee, extend the permit for the additional time requested by the permittee for the completion of such drilling program. (Ord. 768-08, 8-19-2008)