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Section 3. Amend Section 3.5.2 to add the provisions for the Entranceway Special Use District <br />as follows: <br /> Entranceway Sp. Use <br />Minimum Lot Area 4 ac 2 ace <br />Minimum Lot Width (in feet) 200 ac 1002 <br />Minimum Side Yazd Width (in feet) 20' <br />Minimum Rear Yard Width (in feet) 20' <br />Minimum Front Setback (in feet) 50' <br />Maximum Impervious surface (percent of gross lot) 50% <br />Maximum Building Height (in feet) 60 <br />' or height of the building whichever is greater <br />z if part of a master plan rezoning <br />Section 4. Add Sections 4.38 - 4.48 as follows: <br />4.38 Special Use Permit Intent <br />Special Uses (SU) because of their inherent nature, extent of development, or external <br />effects, require special care in the control of their location, design and methods of operation, <br />in order to insure protection of the public health, safety and welfare. <br />It is the intent of this Section to set forth the additional information required for submittal <br />and consideration of SU and to state the standards by which each application shall be <br />judged. <br />Special Use Permits are submitted simultaneously with a rezoning request to a Special Use <br />District. Hearings on both matters are held concurrently. The Boazd of Commissioners <br />must act on the rezoning request before it acts on the permit request. if the rezoning request <br />is denied, the permit request is moot. <br />4.39 General Standards and Findings of Fact <br />4.39.1 Subject to 4.39.2, the Board of Commissioners shall issue the requested permit unless it <br />concludes, based upon the information submitted at the hearing that: <br />a) The requested permit is not within its jurisdiction according to the Table of Permissible <br />Uses, or <br />b) The application is incomplete, or <br />c) If complete as proposed iri the application the development will not comply with one or <br />more requirements of this chapter (not including those the applicant is not required to <br />comply with under the circumstances specified in Non-Conformities) <br />4.39.2 Even if the permit-issuing boards fmds that the application complies with all other <br />provisions of this chapter, it may still deny the permit if it concludes, based upon the <br />information submitted at the hearing, that if completed as proposed, the development, more <br />probably that not: <br />a) Will materially endanger the public health or safety, or <br />b) Will substantially injure the value of adjoining or abutting property, or <br />