HomeMy WebLinkAbout4173AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES FOR ZONING REVIEW
AND CORRECTION OF ERRORS FOLLOWING ADOPTION OF THE NEW
ZONING ORDINANCE, AND ESTABLISHING A ZONING REVIEW
COMMITTEE.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION 1. APPLICATION AND TIME PERIOD.
A. This Correction of Errors process shall extend for a period
of Six (6) months from the date of adoption of the new Zoning
Ordinance. New applications for zoning review shall not be
accepted beyond that time unless the period has been extended
by the City Council.
B. Application forms for zoning review shall be made available
at the Department of Community Development.
C. An application fee of $50 shall be required at the time a
zoning review application is submitted. That fee shall be
refunded if it is determined that an error did occur and has
been corrected by the City Council.
D. Requests for correction of suspected zoning errors following
this six-month period shall be considered and processed as
normal REZONE requests.
SECTION 2. ZONING REVIEW COMMITTEE.
A. A Zoning Review Committee is hereby established to assist in
this process. The Committee shall be comprised of one City
Council member, one Planning Commission member, and the President
(or appointed representative) of the Bremerton Area Council of
Neighborhoods (BACON).
B. The Zoning Review Committee shall schedule a minimum of one
meeting per month during the six-month review period and, if
necessary, provide for one or more meetings beyond the review
period to complete the workload.
C. Planning Division staff shall provide all reports, maps, and
other information needed for each review, and will also be
responsible for the preparation of agenda and notification.
D. The Zoning Review Committee shall conduct reviews of possible
mapping errors and also possible errors in the Zoning Ordinance
text.
E. The Zoning Review Committee shall also review staff-initiated
corrections or amendments, but shall not be responsible for the
review of specific corrections or amendments directed by the
City Council.
F. All decisions of the Zoning Review Committee shall be forwarded
to the City Council with recommendations for approval or denial.
SECTION 3. CITY COUNCIL ACTION.
A. All recommendations of the Zoning Review Committee shall be
scheduled for City Council public hearing and action at two-
month intervals at which the Council will take tentative action.
B. All tentatively-approved corrections to the Zoning Ordinance text
and map shall be packaged and submitted to the City Council for
final adoption.
SECTION 4. ZONING REVIEW CRITERIA.
The following criteria shall be used to review the zoning of properties
for possible errors, and to assign the proper zoning:
A. The new zqnin~'shall be consistent with the present land use
of the property to minimize nonconformitiest unless:
1. the present use of the property was a nonconformity
under the former zoning; OR
2. the present use conflicts with and/or has an adverse
influence or impact on the neighborhood or surrounding
properties; OR
3. the property is vacant or includes an abandoned
structure; OR
4. the property's previous zoning was not consistent with
its actual use, but was consistent with the City's
Comprehensive Plan for the area.
B. The new zoning shall be consistent with and will hel~ implement
the Bremerton Comprehensive Plan. It shall be understood that
the land use designations of the Comprehensive Plan are intended
to be general and not site-specific, and that there may be a
need for some "up-zoning" and "down-zoning" to achieve consistency.
C. The establishment of cohesive zonin~ "districts" is intended~ and
checkerboard zoning patterns and "spot-zoning" of single lots
shall be avoided whenever possible. (In some cases, the inclusion
of a different type of use in a zoning district may be advantageous
to the district and consistent with the Comprehensive Plan even
though a nonconformity is created.)
D. To the greatest extent ~ossible~ special land use conditions
required by previous land use actions shall not be carried over.
(Also, new conditions should not be created through this
correction process.)
APPROVED on the first reading this ~g~-- day of ~W~.~ , 1988.
PASSED on second reading by the Bremerton City Council, this ~
day of (~c~-~~- , 1988.
HA~ WAIBEL, President
City Council
LOBE, Mayor
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN L. McCLUSKEY
City Clerk
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