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Date Application Received: 5/2/08 Date Application Considered as Complete: 5/9/08 60-Day Review Period Expires: 7 /5/08 To: From: Date: Chair Kempf and Planning Commission Members Evelyn Turner, City Planner May 19, 2008 Council Exhibit C Subject: #08-3362 Matt Collins on behalf of Verizon Wireless (tenant), 2345 Blaine Avenue (Navarre Water Treatment Facility) -Conditional Use Permit -Public Hearing Zoning District: LR-IC (0.5 acre, 100 feet) Lot Area: approximately 0.65 acre Lot Width: 112 feet Application Summary: The Applicant requests a conditional use permit to place an emergency generator for its existing antenna facility in the area north of the water tower. The request includes an increase in structural coverage when structural coverage exceeds the allowed 15 percent. Sta.ff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff recommends approval with conditions. Pertinent Zoning Ordinance Sections 78-348 Conditional Uses in LR-IC. Sec. 78-911. Purpose. In order to give the district use regulation the flexibility necessary to achieve the objectives of this chapter, in certain districts, conditional uses are permitted, subject to the granting of a use permit. Conditional uses include those uses generally not suitable in a particular zoning district, but which may under some circumstances be suitable. When such circumstances exist, a conditional use permit may be granted. Conditions may be applied to issuance of the permit, and a periodic review of the permit may be required. The permit shall be issued for a particular use and not for a particular person. Because of their unusual characteristics, conditional uses require consideration so they may be located properly with respect to the objectives of this chapter and the comprehensive municipal plan and with respect to their effects on surrounding properties. In order to achieve these purposes, the council is empowered to grant and to deny applications for conditional use permits and to impose reasonable conditions upon the granting of these permits. Sec. 78-916. Granting of permit. (a) The planning commission may recommend and the council may grant a conditional use permit as the use permit was applied for or in modified form, if on the basis of the application and the evidence submitted the city makes the following findings: