18.50.090 Flexible development option.
(1) The purpose of the flexible development option is to provide incentives for, and to encourage and promote, site planning and development within the tsunami hazard overlay zone that results in lower risk exposure to tsunami hazard than would otherwise be achieved through the conventional application of the requirements of this chapter. The flexible development option is intended to:
(a) Allow for and encourage development designs that incorporate enhanced evacuation measures, appropriate building siting and design, and other features that reduce the risks to life and property from tsunami hazard; and
(b) Permit greater flexibility in the siting of buildings and other physical improvements and in the creation of new lots and parcels in order to allow the full realization of permitted development while reducing risks to life and property from tsunami hazard.
(2) The flexible development option may be applied to the development of any lot, parcel, or tract of land that is wholly or partially within the tsunami hazard overlay zone.
(3) The flexible development option may include any uses permitted outright or conditionally in any zone, except for those uses prohibited in NBCC 18.50.050.
(4) Overall residential density shall be as set forth in the underlying zone or zones.
(5) Yards, setbacks, lot area, lot width and depth, lot coverage, building height, and similar dimensional requirements may be reduced, adjusted or otherwise modified as necessary to achieve the design objectives of the development and fulfill the purposes of this section.
(6) Applications, review, decisions, and appeals for the flexible development option shall be in accordance with the requirements for a conditional use permit as set forth in Chapter 18.60 NBCC.
(7) Approval of an application for a flexible development option shall be based on findings that the following criteria are satisfied:
(a) The applicable requirements of subsections (2) and (4) of this section are met; and
(b) The development will provide tsunami hazard mitigation and/or other risk reduction measures at a level greater than would otherwise be provided under conventional land development procedures. Such measures may include, but are not limited to:
(i) Providing evacuation measures, improvements, wayfinding techniques and signage at a level greater than required by subsection (6) of this section; and,
(ii) Providing tsunami evacuation structure(s) which are accessible to and provide capacity for evacuees from off site; and
(iii) Incorporating building designs or techniques which exceed minimum structural specialty code requirements in a manner that increases the capacity of structures to withstand the forces of a local source tsunami; and
(iv) Concentrating or clustering development in lower risk portions or areas of the subject property, and limiting or avoiding development in higher risk areas. (Ord. 2028 § 2, 2019)