23.66.025

A. The Council may include use and development standards in the ordinance establishing a special review district. If use and development standards are not included, the special review board may, after at least one (1) public hearing, recommend use and development standards for the special review district to the Department of Neighborhoods Director who shall recommend use and development standards to the Council. If the special review board fails to recommend use and development standards within ninety (90) days after its first meeting, the Department of Neighborhoods Director shall prepare use and development standards and recommend such standards to the Council. The Council shall consider proposed use and development standards in the same manner as Land Use Code text amendments. Use and development standards shall be adopted by ordinance and may thereafter be amended in the same manner as Land Use Code text amendments as provided in Chapter 23.76 . B. The use and development standards shall identify the unique characteristics of the district, shall include a statement of purpose and intent, and shall be consistent with the purposes for creating the special review district. The standards shall identify uses, structures and design features that have positive or negative effects upon the character of the district, and may modify use and development standards and other provisions of the Land Use Code to allow and encourage or to limit or exclude structures, designs, and uses. All provisions of the Land Use Code shall apply in special review districts. Use and development standards shall specify the criteria by which uses, structures and designs will be evaluated. In the event of irreconcilable differences between the use and development standards adopted pursuant to this chapter, and the provisions regulating the underlying zone, the provisions of this chapter shall apply. C. The Department of Neighborhoods Director, following recommendation by the board, may adopt rules consistent with the use and development standards of the special review district, in accordance with Chapter 3.02 of the Seattle Municipal Code. (Ord. 118414 § 46, 1996; Ord. 116744 § 30, 1993; Ord. 112134 § 1(part), 1985.)