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<br />use, proposed access drives onto side streets; proposed locations
<br />for txash receptacles; and proposed parking and loading facilities.
<br />(2) With respect to impact on vehicular or pedestrian safety: parking
<br />lot, including aisles and parking spaces, location and configuration;
<br />locations and dimensions of lot improvements such as bumper
<br />guaxds, curbs, walls and raised and/or covered walkways; location,
<br />dimensions, and configuration of access drives; and traffic control
<br />devices, including signs and tra.ffic lights.
<br />(3) With respect to impact aesthetically upon the community:
<br />proposed building, parking, signage and landscaping design; colors
<br />selected for buildings and signs; suitability of materials and
<br />textures of materials proposed for buildings, signs and
<br />landscaping in light of surrounding developments; and protection
<br />of natural resources, such as trees, grade elevations, and waterways
<br />located in and about the development.
<br />The impact of a proposal shall be determined to be significantly adverse if,
<br />in a real sense, with respect to residential, commercial or other neighbors, or with respect
<br />to vehicula.r or pedestrian safety, it affects the public health, safety or welfare, or, with
<br />respect to the aesthetics of the proposal, it will have a probable negative effect upon the
<br />mazket value of properties surrounding it within the same zoning district.
<br />(c) Authoritv of Commission to ChangLe Proposal. If the Planning Commission
<br />determines that a proposal will have a significant adverse impact upon either residential,
<br />commercial or other neighbors, vehicular or pedestrian safety, or aesthetically upon the
<br />community, it shall make such changes, and only such changes, in the proposal which
<br />will, if practicable, eliminate the significant adverse impact, and, if such a change is not
<br />practicable, then such changes which will ameliorate the adverse impact to the fullest
<br />extent practicable.
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<br />(d) Hearin Procedure; Authority to Require Expert Consultation. In
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<br />making its determinations and proposed changes pursuant to this section, the Planning
<br />Commission shall:
<br />(1) Receive complaints, comments and recommendations from the
<br /> public.
<br />(2) Review the recommendations of the Architectural Review Board.
<br />(3) Refer the matter to the Forester, the Safety Departments, and any
<br /> other City officials, board, or commission, whose advice and
<br /> recommendation may, in the opinion of the Commission, assist in
<br /> fulfilling its duties herein.
<br />(4) Review the recommendations, reports or comments issued by the
<br /> Building Official, or any other City official or department,
<br /> particularly with regards to variances requested.
<br />(5) Determine whether the development proposal wanants the input
<br /> and advice of an expert planning or traffic consultant and, if so,
<br /> specifically require the applicant to either produce such a report, at
<br /> its own costs, or to otherwise recommend that the City's retain
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