§ 22.32.020. Permit and Application Requirements.

The following permit and application requirements apply to all electric generating facilities, except where other provisions of this Chapter establish different requirements.

A.

Permit requirements. Except where county land use permit authority is preempted by state law, and except where other provisions of this Chapter establish a different permit requirement, the required land use permit is determined by the area in square feet per site of grading or the removal of natural ground cover, as follows:

Permit Requirement	Area of Site Disturbance
Zoning Clearance	Less than 40,000 sf
Minor Use Permit	40,000 sf or more

 

B.

Application contents. In addition to any specific requirements later in this Section, land use permit applications shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 22.62 (Permit Applications) and shall also describe:

1.

The physical and operating characteristics of the facility; the proposed design capacity of the facility; the operating schedule; how the electric energy shall be used; and if any electric energy shall leave the site, the physical and contractual arrangement for tying-in to other facilities;

2.

Alternatives to the proposed facility and to separable aspects of the proposal. This will include reliability, as well as economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages;

3.

Plans for any overhead or underground transmission lines, transformers, inverters, switchyards or any required new or upgraded off-site transmission facilities; and

4.

The number and characterization by trades of the estimated construction and operation force. If construction is estimated to take over six months, the construction workforce will be estimated for each six-month period and will include estimates of numbers of locally hired employees and employees who will move into the area, and a discussion of the estimated impact that employees moving into the area will have on housing, schools and traffic.

C.

Approvals from other agencies. If another public agency must approve the proposed facility, the applicant shall:

1.

Describe the requirements of that agency; summarize the agency's procedures for acting on the proposed use, and describe the studies, analyses and other data collection which the applicant or agency will perform in order to resolve each substantive requirement of the agency.

2.

List the required actions related to the proposed facility by other public agencies and utilities and a schedule for application and approval of those actions.

3.

Provide a copy of necessary state and federal permits and all written comments and decisions made by officials of the agencies listed prior to the start of construction.

D.

Information from other applications. An applicant may incorporate by reference any information developed or submitted in any other application for the project, provided the applicant submits a copy or summary of the referenced material, identifies the permitting process in which it was submitted and the outcome of that permitting process, and explains the relevance of the information to the approval standards of this Title.

[Added 1989, Ord. 2409] [22.08.312]