(A) Applications for projects by companies not reasonably in accordance with the requirements of this chapter need not be accepted and further processed.
(B) Receipt of any application in no way obligates the city to preliminarily undertake the project proposed.
(C) Upon receipt of any application, the city shall review each application and shall determine compliance with the purposes of this chapter and with the criteria established pursuant hereto, and the review shall include the making of the appropriate determinations, including, without limitation, the determination that it is likely that the undertaking of the project by the city will be a substantial factor in the accrual of each of the public benefits from the use of the facilities as proposed in the application.
(D) Upon an affirmative determination under division (C) of this section, a copy of the application, as then amended or supplemented, so certified by the City Clerk, shall be entered into the records of the city, and a notice of the acceptance of the application naming the company, stating the estimated maximum bond issue and briefly summarizing the proposed project, shall be published pursuant to Cal. Gov’t Code § 6061.
(E) The company, not the city, shall be deemed the proposer of any project, a copy of the application for which is filed pursuant to § 12.04.080.
(F) Upon the approval and certification thereof by the City Clerk, all proceedings necessary to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended (CEQA), any zoning, building code or other requirements of law shall be taken or completed, as the case may be, at the expense of the company.
(1995 Code, § 12.04.090)