Administration | Commercial Site Development Permits
21.09.050 Commercial Site Development Permits A. Purpose
recommendation to the community development director by the parties to the mediation. The mediated agreement shall be accorded substantial weight in resolving issues between or among the parties to the mediated agreement, and shall be applied to the agreeing parties unless it would be clearly erroneous to do so. Except for an agreement by an applicant to withdraw or modify an application, a mediated agreement shall not be used to obviate the need for, nor limit the scope of, any public hearing required by law. Mediation is not a substitute for the lawful exercise of discretion by the City council in performing its legislative and quasi- judicial responsibilities, nor for the performance of the duties and responsibilities of the City of Sammamish hearing examiner and responsible City officials. c. Effect on Other Parties and Persons. An agreement arrived at through mediation may be considered by a hearing examiner with respect to parties or persons who did not agree to the mediated agreement only as evidence that the mediated resolution of the disputed matter may be feasible or reasonable. The evidentiary use of the agreement does not preclude any party or interested person who is not bound by the agreement from introducing other evidence and argument that disputes the reasonableness or feasibility of the agreement or supports an alternative resolution of the dispute.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish an optional comprehensive site review process of proposed commercial development resulting in a permit that can combine any or all of the following: 1. Site development requirements specified prior to building and/or grading permit applications. 2. Site review and application of rules and regulations generally applied to the whole site without regard to existing or proposed internal lot lines. 3. Site development coordination and project phasing occurring over a period of years. 4. Evaluation of commercially zoned property for the creation or alteration of lots when reviewed concurrently with a binding site plan application.
B. Applicability
1. An application for commercial site development permit may be submitted for commercial development projects on sites consisting of one or more contiguous lots legally created and zoned to permit the proposed uses. a. A commercial site development permit is separate from and does not replace other required permits such as conditional use permits or shoreline substantial development permits. A commercial site development
652 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code
Effective | January 1, 2022
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