The purpose for creation of a SUD as an overlay zoning district for a specific Zoning District area is to assist in the implementation of the Plan, Redevelopment Plan(s) and/or an adopted Neighborhood Plan for a specific geographic area of at least two (2) contiguous acres.

The purpose for creation of a SUD as an overlay zoning district for a specific Zoning Districts area is also to respond to well-defined health, safety, moral and/or general welfare problems. A specific SUD ordinance shall state the problems that are to be addressed by any use being prohibited or limited within the SUD area.

A specific SUD ordinance may impose a time period for discontinuing non-conforming uses within the specific SUD area of not less than one (1) year.

A specific SUD ordinance may prohibit the creation of uses or the expansion of existing uses that are permitted or conditional uses or would or could be allowed as a special use under existing Zoning Districts.

A specific SUD may promote flexibility and fairness under a new SUD ordinance by making it possible to allow new or expanded uses within the SUD subject to the conditional use provisions of Section 405.700 of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Normandy. In a SUD area a specific SUD ordinance may require that a use that is presently zoned as a permitted use be subject to the conditional use process in Section 405.700.

A specific SUD ordinance may further regulate a permitted use with additional restrictions because it has been or may in the future be expected to be the cause of the emergence of well-defined problems, and thus require that use become a conditional use subject to the provisions of Section 405. 700.

A specific SUD ordinance may allow an existing conditional use to remain as a conditional use, but may subject that use to a specific list of limitations and subject that use to the provisions of Section 405.700, to address the well-defined problems with that type of use which the City has documented.

Given the goal of promoting flexibility and fairness in Commercial Districts ("E" Neighborhood Shopping District, "F" Commercial District, "G" Light industrial), a specific SUD ordinance may make it possible to treat a prohibited use less restrictively than previously because through the conditional use process contained in Section 405.700 a specific SUD ordinance may substantially reduce, avoid or mitigate potential damage to adjacent property from the previously prohibited use.

A specific SUD ordinance may deal with a range of criteria including: 1) maximum size or height of building; 2) number of parking spaces for employees, customers and/or visitors; 3) signage; 4) carryout windows; 5) landscaping buffers and fences; 6) percentage of lot landscaping; 7) refuse enclosures and dumpsters; 8) vehicular and pedestrian access; 9) outdoor lighting; 10) hours of operation; 11) prior record of business owner, operator and employees involving identified problem land uses; 12) time limits for accomplishment of the conditions; and/or; 13) specific criteria that address unique aspects of the identified problem land uses and the identified geographic area in a specific SUD ordinance.

Conditional use review procedures used in a specific SUD ordinance will include a forty-five (45) day review period by City staff and a fifteen (15) day public notice period before the required conditional use hearing. If a conditional use permit is issued, it shall be valid for one (1) year after issuance, but can be declared null and void by the City if the work to be done to establish the conditional use is not completed and an occupancy permit from the City is not issued within one (1) year after the written approval of the conditional use.

Any conditional use approved pursuant to an SUD ordinance shall meet the standards for conditional uses established in Section 405.700 of the Zoning Code.

In developing conditions for the uses under a specific SUD ordinance or the conditions to be imposed on a specific use, the following criteria shall also be considered regarding the approval and/or conditions for the operation of the proposed use: 1) existing and proposed site topography; 2) existing and proposed land use on the SUD site and/or up to one thousand (1,000) feet from the SUD site; 3) density of commercial activity on and near the proposed site; 4) location of the site relative to major thoroughfares or public transit routes; 5) proximity to public parks, playgrounds, libraries, youth facilities, open space and schools near the proposed site; 6) the impact of the proposed use on existing buildings, structures or other facilities with architectural, historical or cultural significance on the SUD site and/or up to one thousand (1,000) feet from the SUD site; as well as, 7) existing landscaping including trees over six (6) inch caliper, formal garden(s), fountains, statues and/or sculptures on the SUD site.