Portland City Code ch. 14

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14
Parent Document: Portland City Code ch. 14
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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property in the neighborhood. Such conditions shall 6.5.6 Supplemental use-specific conditional use
be expressly set forth in the resolution authorizing standards
the conditional use. Violation of such conditions In addition to the general conditional use standards,
shall be a violation of this article. the following standards shall apply to specific
conditional uses:
6.5.4 Effect of issuance of a conditional use A. Automobile, boat, and related dealerships
approval and auto service stations
The approval of a conditional use shall not authorize 1. The Planning Board shall be the review
the establishment or extension of any use nor the authority.
development, construction, reconstruction, 2. Signs shall not adversely affect visibility at
alteration, or moving of any building or structure, intersections or access drives. Such signs
but shall merely authorize the preparation, filing. shall be constructed, installed, and
and processing of applications for any permits or maintained so as to ensure the safety of
approvals which may be required by the City of the public. Such signs shall advertise only
Portland Code of Ordinances, including but not services or goods available on the
limited to a building permit, a certificate of premises.
occupancy, subdivision approval, and site plan 3. No ingress and egress driveways shall be
approval. located within 30 feet from an
intersection. No entrance or exit for
6.5.5 Limitations on conditional use approvals vehicles shall be in such proximity to a
No conditional use approval shall be valid for a playground, school, church, other places of
period longer than six months from the date of public assembly, or any residential zone
approval, or such other time, not to exceed two that the nearness poses a threat or
years, as may be fixed at the time granted, unless potential danger to the safety of the
the conditional use has been commenced or a public.
building permit is issued and construction has 4. A landscaped buffer, no less than five feet
begun within that period and is thereafter diligently wide, shall be located along street
pursued to completion, provided, however, that one frontages (excluding driveways). The,
or more extensions of said time may be granted if buffer shall consist of a variety of plantings
the facts constituting the basis of the decision have in accordance with the City of Portland
not materially changed and the two year period is Technical Manual.
not exceeded thereby. A conditional use approval 5. Car washes shall be designed to avoid the
shall be deemed to authorize only the particular use tracking of residual waters into the street.
for which it was issued and such approval shall
automatically expire and cease to be of any force or
effect if such use shall for any reason be
discontinued for a period of 12 consecutive months
or more. CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 6-21 USE STANDARDS

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