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4 the control of their location and methods of operation. The Board of County ' Commissioners is aware of its responsibility to protect the public health, safety and general welfare and believe that certain uses which now or in the future may be included on this list are appropriately handled as Special Uses, subject to review in relation to general and specific requirements,rather than as uses permitted by right. In addition to the listing of such uses, the Board of County Commissioners intends that the general standards, established in Section 8.2.1, and the more specific requirements in 8.2.2, established below, shall be used by the Board of Adjustment, the Planning Board and the Board of County Commissioners, as appropriate, to direct deliberations upon application or the approval of Special Uses. It is the express intent of the Board of County Commissioners to delineate the areas of concern connected with each Special Use and to provide standards by which applications for such Special Use shall be evaluated. 8.2.1 Before any application for a Special Use shall be approved: a) The applicant shall have the burden of establishing, by competent material and substantial evidence,the existence of the facts and conditions which this ordinance requires for approval; and b) The Board shall make written findings certifying compliance with the specific rules governing such individual Special Use and that the use, which is listed as a Special Use in the district in which it is proposed to be located, complies with all required regulations and standards including the following general conditions: (1) The use will maintain or promote the public health, safety and general welfare, if located where proposed and developed and operated according to the plan as submitted; (2) The use will maintain or enhance the value of contiguous property (unless the use is a public necessity, in which case the use need not maintain or enhance the value of contiguous property); (3) The location and character of the use, if developed according to the plan submitted,will be in harmony with the area in which it is to be located and the use is in compliance with the plan for the physical development of the County as embodied in these regulations or in the Comprehensive Plan, or portion thereof, adopted by the Board of County Commissioners; and including all applicable provisions of Articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12 of this Ordinance, unless greater or different regulations are contained in the individual standards for the specific Special Use. The applicant shall have the burden of establishing by competent material and substantial evidence in the form of testimony, exhibits, documents, models, plans and the like that the application meets the requirements for approval of a Special Use.