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Craig Benedict: Article 8 has to do with the special use permits. There are some general criteria within special use permits, which will be part of the findings of fact process. There is part of Article 8 that says when you do a Class A Special Use Permit for a Planned Development please refer back to Article 7 again. So, Article 7 is the guiding specific aspects of what type of information you have to provide for a planned development special use permit application. When this returns back to you, there will be general and specific Article 8 findings of fact, which have to do with health, safety, and welfare. That's not part of the material that you're getting tonight. In quick reference to site-specific development plans, that does not pertain to planned developments in special use permits, it pertains to a specific project single use and that is within the evidence that's provided within the document. We can re-clarify that by the next meeting also. Commissioner Gordon: Where is the site-specific development plan? Craig Benedict: For planned developments, you provide a development concept plan and that • development concept plan is a master plan that explains the utilities, open space, transportation systems, land use compatibility. For planned developments, you do not go down to a site- specific development plan. That is when a site plan is submitted when you actually have a request for a building permit. Commissioner Gordon: But when are the Commissioners going to get the specific findings of fact that have to go with Article 8? •I haven't looked it up, so I can't tell you for sure, but I thought that there were specific provisions of Article 8 that you had to reference and yet it isn't here. So, if we close the public hearing and we don't have that and we find out that we need it or want it, then it won't be in the record. So, I'm not sure what the recourse would be except to open everything else up again, which I don't think is something we'd rather do. So, as I said, there's a planned development part, and there's a special use part. And you said that we're going to get into Article 8 Findings of Fact when it comes back, but we don't have those things documented here now. Geof Gledhill: Let me take a shot. The applicant and those who spoke in favor and against this project have the burden, if you will, of making sure that all of the evidence is in the record that's necessary for you to make the findings of fact that the ordinance requires. If one or the other of those has failed in doing that and you can't make the requisite findings of fact, then you don't make the requisite findings of fact. That's how this process works. It's not an interactive process that goes on until you make a decision. At some point you cut off the public hearing process and cut off the evidence being presented, and that's what's being proposed tonight. The staff is giving you its best opinion, if you will, that all of the evidence is necessary for you to make the decisions you need to make in the record. If you disagree with that, then that's the way you vote. Commissioner Gordon: I know, but that would be unfortunate. It's hard for me to tell, the way it's laid out, because Article 8 is not referenced. I'm not sure how this site-specific plan is going to be handled. Geof Gledhill: The site-specific plan is not something you'll decide about. Each site-specific plan for the project will go through the site-specific process in the zoning ordinance, which is a professional staff review. The staff will review the site-specific plan as it's submitted, or plans, as they're submitted, and approve them based on the technical requirements of the ordinance and the conditions that you've imposed in the approval of the special use permit.