18.76.040 Staff review.
A. The planning department shall evaluate the application for amendment to the text of this title and shall conduct such investigations as may be relevant. The planning department may only make a recommendation for approval with the following findings:
1. The proposed amendment will be consistent with the comprehensive plan and will further specific goals and objectives of the plan;
2. The proposed amendment will be fair and reasonable to implement and enforce;
3. The proposed amendment will enhance the stated purpose of this title of promoting the public health, safety and welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the city;
4. The proposed amendment will be consistent with the intent and wording of the other provisions of this title.
B. The planning department shall make such investigations as are relevant and evaluate the proposed amendments to the official map. The department shall submit its analysis and recommendations to the planning commission along with findings consistent with its recommendations. The department may only recommend approval of the map amendment if it makes and supports the following findings:
1. The proposed redesignation will be consistent with and further the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan;
2. If applicable, that the proposed redesignation is better suited to the area because either the conditions have changed in the area to be redesignated since the present designation was assigned, or the area was previously assigned an inappropriate zoning district designation;
3. The principal and conditional uses permitted in the proposed redesignated area will be compatible with the principal and conditional uses permitted in the surrounding area for a one-thousand- (1,000-) foot radius considering factors such as distance, topography, materials, screening, actual and potential development, comprehensive plan designations, and other relevant factors;
4. The area proposed to be redesignated either constitutes an expansion of an area of the same designation or is at least two (2) acres in size;
5. The existing or proposed water, sewage and transportation systems are adequate to serve the principal and conditional uses permitted in the proposed redesignation. [Ord. 01-05 § 8.]