§ 21.84.010. General provisions.

A.

Site plan review and approval shall be required for any of the following activities:

1.

The use of land for the location of any commercial, industrial or public building or activity, and for the location of any building containing more than two dwelling units;

2.

A change of land use at an existing site or structure when the new activity requires either a change of occupancy according to the Uniform Building Code or is a change of land use according to the Standard Industrial Classification code and, in the opinion of the director, results in an intensification of land use and will require new planning conditions to comply with existing planning regulations. This provision may not apply to malls (buildings with ten or more tenants sharing common parking) where original conditions to establish the mall complex anticipated a range of tenants and existing facilities and where it can be shown existing infrastructure can accommodate the new intensified use;

3.

Expansion of an existing commercial, industrial, public or multifamily structure or use. Provided residential duplexes are exempt;

4.

An alteration of an existing structure where the alteration is twenty-five percent or more of the assessed valuation of existing structures. The value of existing structures shall be the most recent value assigned by the county assessor. The twenty-five percent threshold shall be cumulative, including calculations of all previously exempt alterations. Alterations of a residential duplex, triplex and quadruplex shall be exempt from site plan review;

5.

Uses and activities within designated environmentally sensitive areas or their buffers pursuant to the applicable requirements of Title 24 or Chapter 17.15;

6.

Home occupations as provided for in Chapter 21.69.

B.

An application, in completed form, shall be filed for site plan review and approval with the department. An application shall not be in completed form under this section if it fails to contain any of the information and material required under Section 21.81.060.

C.

Site plan review shall be conducted by the department.

(Ord. 12761 § 51, 2002; Ord. 12463 § 41, 2001; Ord. 11499 § 36, 1997: Ord. 11274 § 1 (part), 1996)

(Ord. No. 14773, § 10(Att. I), 7-24-2012)