§ 23.08.312. Electric Generating Plants - General Permit Requirements.

Except as may be modified below, the following general standards and specifications apply to all electric generating plants, S-20 uses:

a.

Permit requirements. Except where county land use permit authority is preempted by State Law, and except where the provisions of sections 23.08.312 through 23.08.322 establish other permit requirements, the Land Use Permit required to authorize a proposed land use of this type is determined by the magnitude of site disturbance (i.e., the area in square feet per site of grading or removal of natural ground cover) as follows:

Permit Requirement	Area of Site Disturbance
Plot Plan	Less than 40,000 square feet
Minor Use Permit	40,000 or more square feet

 

b.

General application contents. In addition to any specific requirements later in this section, the land use applications shall follow the content, processing and time limit specifications of chapter 23.02 (permit applications) of this title, and are also to describe:

(1)

The physical and operating characteristics of the facility; the proposed design capacity of the facility; the operating schedule; how the electric energy is to be utilized; and if any electric energy is to 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.

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. An applicant may incorporate by reference any information developed or submitted in any other application, 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.

e.

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.

[Added 1992, Ord 2591]