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(a) In granting any Class 2 and Class 3 application the administrative official may impose conditions to:

(1) Comply with any development standard or criteria for approval set forth in this title or other relevant provisions of the Selah Municipal Code;

(2) Mitigate material impacts of the development, whether environmental or otherwise;

(3) Ensure compatibility of the development with existing neighboring land uses; assure consistency with the intent and character of the zoning district involved;

(4) Ensure that the structures and areas proposed are surfaced, arranged and screened in such a manner that they are compatible with and not detrimental to existing or reasonable expected future development of the neighborhood, or resource uses, consistent with the comprehensive plan;

(5) Achieve and further the intent, goals, objectives, and policies of the comprehensive plan and this title.

(b) It is the intent of this title to grant broad authority to impose special conditions and safeguards to achieve and further the objectives listed above. These conditions and safeguards may include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Increasing the required lot size, setback or yard dimensions;

(2) Limiting the height of buildings or structures;

(3) Controlling the number and location of vehicular access points;

(4) Requiring the dedication of additional rights-of-way for future public street improvements identified in an adopted transportation plan;

(5) Requiring the designation of public use easements or drainage easements and their recording;

(6) Increasing the number of required off-street parking and/or loading spaces as well as designating the location, screening, drainage, surfacing or other improvement of a parking area;

(7) Limiting the number, size, height, shape, location and lighting of signs;

(8) Requiring view-obscuring fencing, landscaping or other facilities to protect adjacent or nearby properties;

(9) Designating sites and/or the size of sites for open space or recreational areas;

(10) Requiring site reclamation upon discontinuance of use and/or expiration or revocation of the project permit;

(11) Limiting hours and size of operation;

(12) Controlling the siting of the use and/or structures on the property;

(13) Requiring that public facilities are adequate to serve the proposed use;

(14) Requiring improvements to public or private roads, drainage ways, water systems or sewage systems;

(15) Requiring mitigation measures to effectively reduce the potential for land use conflicts between the proposed use and active agriculture, or mineral operations, such as: landscape buffers; special setbacks; screening; site design using physical features such as rock outcrops, ravines, roads, irrigation canals or critical areas.

(c) The administrative official shall prescribe a time limit within which the action authorized shall be commenced, completed, or both. Failure to meet the time limit set shall void the approval; except that the administrative official may authorize a one-time extension of either or both dates upon request, provided such extension request is filed in writing prior to the required commencement or completion date. Such extension request shall detail unique and special circumstances that prohibited the commencement or completion, or both, of the use authorized. The length of such time extension, if authorized, shall not exceed eighteen additional months from the date the extension decision becomes final.

(d) Violation of such conditions and safeguards, when made part of the terms under which the project permit is granted, shall be considered a violation of this title and subject to the remedies set forth in Title 21. (Ord. 2172, § 9, 2022; Ord. 1634, § 24, 2004.)