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Chapter 135. Planning
Article 6. reVieW AND APPrOVAl PrOceDUreS

135-6.1 SITE PLANS ...............................................................................135-6-1
6.1.1 Purpose ........................................................................................135-6-1
6.1.2 Applicability .................................................................................135-6-2
6.1.3 Preapplication Meeting ............................................................135-6-2
6.1.4 Application Submittal ................................................................135-6-2
6.1.5 Review and Decision-Making Authority ................................135-6-2
6.1.6 Review Process ...........................................................................135-6-3
6.1.7 Effective Date of Site Plan Approval ......................................135-6-4
6.1.8 Lapse of Site Plan Approval .....................................................135-6-4
6.1.9 Permits and Continuing Compliance ...................................135-6-4
6.1.10 Resubmissions and Amendments .........................................135-6-4
6.1.11 Appeals .........................................................................................135-6-5
135-6.2 DESIGN EXCEPTIONS ..............................................................135-6-5
6.2.1 Design Exceptions Generally .................................................135-6-5
6.2.2 Type 1 Design Exceptions ........................................................135-6-5
6.2.3 Type 2 Design Exceptions ........................................................135-6-6
135-6.3 SITE DESIGN GENERALLY .......................................................135-6-7
6.3.1 General Site Design Principles................................................135-6-7
135-6.4 ENFORCEMENT .......................................................................135-6-8
6.4.1 Violations and Penalties ...........................................................135-6-8
6.4.2 Responsibility for Enforcement ..............................................135-6-8
6.4.3 Continuing Violations ................................................................135-6-8
6.4.4 Remedies and Enforcement Powers.....................................135-6-8
6.4.5 Remedies Cumulative ...............................................................135-6-9
6.4.6 Persons Subject to Penalties ..................................................135-6-9
6.4.7 Enforcement Procedures .........................................................135-6-9
6.4.8 Appeals .........................................................................................135-6-9

135-6.1 Site Plans foreclosure of future development opportunities,
and facilitate coordination of land usage with
6.1.1 PUrPOSe planned and available facilities and resources.
A. It is the intent and purpose of this article to establish 5. Give due consideration to the preservation of
a procedure to ensure timely, competent review of canopied areas and mature trees and to provide
site plans as a means of determining whether such for the mitigation of canopied areas and mature
plans comply with the applicable regulations of this trees which are removed for development.
chapter and Chapter 134, and to enable the city to B. The site planning review requirements of this article
plan for and review certain proposed improvements are designed to ensure the orderly and harmonious
of property within specified zoning districts of the development of such property in a manner that shall:
city in order to:
1. Implement community policies on physical 1. Promote the most beneficial relation between
present and proposed future uses of land and
development; the present and proposed future circulation of
2. Provide for efficient, rational allocation of scarce traffic throughout the city;
facilities and resources; 2. Permit present development of property
3. Promote economy and efficiency in the provision commensurate with fair and orderly planning
and improvement of municipal services through for future development of other properties in
the regulation of development; and the various areas of the city with respect to the
4. Ensure the orderliness, quality and character of availability and capacity, present and foreseeable,
the development of property in the city, prevent of public facilities and services. The factors to be
considered in arriving at a conclusion concerning

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