Duquesne City Zoning Code
SECTION 404
114 Preliminary Site Plan Review.
[R.O. 2004 § 404.114; Ord. No. 106 § 1, 7-21-2008]
A.
Intent. The City of Duquesne recognizes that commercial land development creates the potential for traffic congestion, adverse visual environmental impacts and health problems. The City seeks to ensure that commercial development has a working forum that creates a partnership to achieve the goal of promoting growth in Duquesne. The commercial property preliminary site plan review seeks to balance the needs of the City for providing safety, services and convenience to its residents with that of the needs of the commercial developer. The commercial property preliminary site plan review provides a forum where a developer can propose conceptual or preliminary commercial development and receive the feedback needed to move forward from the concept phase to the engineering and construction phases. Provided, however, neither feedback nor City approval of a preliminary site plan shall be construed to constitute a waiver of or substitute for the site plan review process set forth in Section 404.115 of this Code. The City seeks to ensure that any location that must accommodate intense urban uses shall be subject to the preliminary site plan review process by the City Clerk, Building Inspector, Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Aldermen.
B.
Applicability. All application for land use permits or building permits for multifamily, commercial or industrial property on a lot in the zoning districts "R-3," "R-4," "C-1," "C-2" and "M-1" shall be subject to the preliminary site plan review.
C.
Authority. Land use permits or building permits shall not be issued for any use of land or proposed construction on a lot in the zoning districts in which preliminary site plan review is applicable, unless site plan review approval has been granted.
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Submission Requirements. The preliminary site plan shall include the following data, details and supporting plans which are found relevant to the proposal. The number of pages submitted to the City Clerk will depend on the proposal's size and complexity. Preliminary site plans shall be prepared by a registered professional engineer, architect or land surveyor registered in the State of Missouri; architect at a scale of one (1) inch equals one hundred (100) feet for the project. Items required for submission include:
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Name of project, address, boundaries, date, north arrow and scale of the plan and legal description of the land.
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Name and address of the owner of record, developer and engineer, architect or land surveyor.
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All existing lot lines, survey pin locations, include area in acres or square feet.
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The location of all present and proposed structures within the development. Include square feet of the building, setbacks from lot lines and any conceptual drawings of the buildings.
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The location of all present and proposed parking areas, driveways and sidewalks.
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Topography (unless specifically waived) with contour intervals of not more than two (2) feet except where the ground is too flat for contours, spot elevation shall be provided.