Site plan approval required.
A. Site plan approval shall be required for any of the following:
(1) The construction of any new building or structure or the expansion of an existing building or structure for any use identified in this chapter as permitted, permitted with site plan review, or conditional.
(2) The establishment of a use identified as permitted with site plan review or conditional that does not involve a building or structure.
(3) The construction or expansion of a ground-mounted commercial solar system or utility solar system.
(4) Existing buildings:
(a) The change in use of an existing building from a use that is permitted with site plan review or conditional to another use that is permitted with site plan review or conditional, but only if one (1) or both of the following are met:
[1] The new use requires fifteen percent (15%) or more off-street parking in accordance with this chapter than the previous use; or
[2] Changes in site development are proposed, including but not limited to into and through the site, layout and location of parking, or provisions for stormwater drainage, lighting, or buffering of adjacent uses.
(b) A change in occupancy of an existing building or use that replaces a use that is permitted with site plan review or conditional with another use that is permitted with site plan review or conditional that does not increase the parking requirement more than fifteen percent (15%) or result in changes to site development shall not require site plan review.
(5) The construction or expansion of parking areas to serve a use that is permitted with site plan review or conditional involving an area of more than two-thousand (2,000) square feet in any three (3)-year period.
(6) The creation of a private way.
B. This section does not apply to the construction or modification of single-family or two-family homes, the placement of manufactured housing on individual lots, agriculture, forest management and timber harvesting activities, or any permitted use identified in this chapter.
C. No land, building, or structure shall be used or occupied and no building permit, sign permit, plumbing permit, or certificate of occupancy shall be issued for a development within the scope of this chapter unless and until a final plan of the development has been approved in accordance with the procedures set forth below.
Classification of projects.
Projects subject to site plan review shall be divided into two (2) classes: major developments and minor developments.
A. Major development. A major development shall be any project which requires site plan approval and which meets any one (1) of the following criteria. In addition, the Site Plan Review Committee may, by formal vote, reclassify a minor development to a major development if it finds, because of the scale or complexity of the proposal, that it has implications similar to projects defined as major developments, except that the establishment of a child care center or nursery school for thirteen (13) or more children and/or an adult day services center for thirteen (13) or more clients shall be classified as a major development.
B. Minor development. Any project which requires site plan approval and is not classified as a major development shall be a minor development. For complete information see
§ 280-16-4B
C. Design standards. Any development on a lot that is located in the Sanford Downtown or Springvale Village Design District Overlay Zones shall require review by and a recommendation to the designated reviewing committee or staff.
