19.15.07 Optional Conditions

Applicants for Conditional Use permits shall meet all applicable requirements of this Title. In addition, the City Council may establish conditions as outlined herein to meet the concerns of safety for persons and property, health and sanitation, environment, master plan proposals, and neighborhood needs, performance, and administration. More specifically, the City Council may require: 1. Conditions Relating to Safety of Persons and Property. a. Building elevations and grading plans which will prevent or minimize flood water damage, where property may be subject to flooding. b. The relocation, covering, or fencing of irrigation ditches, drainage channels, and other potential attractive nuisances existing on or adjacent to the property. c. Increased setback distances from lot lines where the Land Use Authority determines it to be necessary to ensure the public safety and to ensure compatibility with the intended characteristics of the zone as outlined in applicable land use ordinances. d. Appropriate design, construction, and location of structures, buildings, and facilities in relation to any earthquake fault which may exist on the property, and limitations and restrictions on the use and location of uses due to special site conditions, including geologically hazardous areas, flood plains, fault zones, and landslides areas. e. Limitations and control of the number, location, color, size, height, lighting, and landscaping of outdoor advertising signs and structures in relation to the creation of traffic hazards and appearance and harmony with adjacent development. f. Plans for the location, arrangement, and dimensions of truck loading and unloading facilities. g. Construction of curbs, gutters, drainage culverts, sidewalks, streets, fire hydrants, and street lighting. 2. Conditions relating to Health and Sanitation. a. A guarantee of sufficient culinary water to serve the intended land use and a water delivery system meeting standards adopted by the City. b. A wastewater disposal system and a solid waste disposal system meeting standards adopted by the Land Use Authority. c. Construction of water mains, sewer mains, and drainage facilities serving the proposed use, in sizes necessary to protect existing utility users in the vicinity and to provide for an orderly development of land. 3. Conditions Relating to Environmental Concerns. a. Limitations and restrictions on the use and location of uses in sensitive lands. b. Processes for: the control, elimination, or prevention of land, water, or air pollution; the prevention of soil erosion; and control of objectionable odors and noise. c. The planting of ground cover or other surfacing to prevent dust and erosion. d. Restructuring of the land and planting of the same as directed by the Planning Commission when the Conditional Use involves cutting or filling the land, and where such land would be adversely affected if not restructured. 4. Conditions Relating to Compliance with the Intent of the General Plan and Land Use Ordinances and Characteristics of the Vicinity or Neighborhood. a. The removal of structures, debris, or plant materials incompatible with the intended characteristics of the zone outlined in this Title. b. The screening of yards or other areas as protection from obnoxious land uses and activities. c. Landscaping to ensure compatibility with the intended characteristics of the zone as outlined in this Title. d. Limitations or controls on the location, heights, and materials of walls, fences, hedges, and screen plantings to ensure harmony with adjacent development, or to conceal storage areas, utility installations, or unsightly development. e. The relocation of proposed or existing structures as necessary to provide for future streets on the Transportation Master Plan of Saratoga Springs, adequate sight distance for general safety, groundwater control, or similar problems. f. Provision for, or construction of, recreational facilities necessary to satisfy needs of the Conditional Use. g. Population density and intensity of land use limitations where land capability or vicinity relationships make it appropriate to do so to protect health, safety, and welfare. h. Other improvements which serve the property in question and which may compensate, in part or whole, for possible adverse impacts to the zone from the proposed Conditional Use.