6.08.060 Applications.
A. Submittal Requirements. The director shall specify submittal requirements, including type, detail, and standards for an application to be complete. The director may require additional material such as maps, studies, or photographic simulations when the director determines such material is needed to adequately assess the proposed project.
B. Waivers of Submittal Requirements. The director may waive specific submittal requirements determined to be unnecessary for review of an application. Requests for waivers from any submittal requirement shall be made in writing to the director or his or her designee. The director may grant or deny a request for a waiver pursuant to this subsection. The director may grant a request for waiver if it is demonstrated that, notwithstanding the issuance of a waiver, the city will be provided all information necessary to understand the nature of the construction or other activity to be conducted pursuant to the permit sought. All waivers approved pursuant to this subsection shall be (1) granted only on a case-by-case basis, and (2) narrowly tailored to minimize deviation from the requirements of the city code.
C. Notice of Incompleteness. For SWF permits and SWF EFR permits, applications will be processed, and notices of incompleteness provided, in conformity with state, local, and federal law. If such an application is incomplete, the director may issue a notice of incompleteness identifying the material omitted from the application.
D. Applications Denied without Prejudice. To promote efficient review and timely decisions, the city may deny an application without prejudice when the applicant fails to tender a substantive response to the city within 180 calendar days after the city deems the application incomplete in a written notice to the applicant. In the event the application is denied without prejudice as provided herein and the applicant seeks to pursue an application at the same location, the applicant shall be required to submit a new application and applicable fees.
E. Optional Preapproved Design Process. The optional preapproved design process is a mechanism for applicants to receive preapproval of a programmatic SWF design that deviates from the design standards but achieves an equal or better aesthetic concealment outcome.
1. The applicant must apply to the director for review of any proposed optional preapproved design.
2. The city commits to review, and make a decision upon, a proposed optional preapproved design in a timely fashion. The shot clocks adopted by FCC rule do not apply because this is an optional process.
3. An applicant will be charged for the cost of review consistent with the one-time fee provisions of this chapter.
4. Preapproved designs shall accomplish the intended aesthetic concealment outcomes of the design standards for SWF in the right-of-way, and deviations from the requirements of the city code shall be the minimum necessary to support SWF function.
5. No preapproved designs shall result in a deployment that exceeds the size limitations for a SWF as defined in 47 CFR 1.6002(l).
6. Preapproved designs will be appended to the Transportation Design Manual and may be used as an alternative to meeting the design standards required by BCC 6.08.050(D). Proposals must comply with all other applicable laws and regulations.
F. One-Time Fees. Applicant shall be responsible for paying all costs associated with city review, processing and inspection as part of all SWF or SWF EFR permit applications filed for the installation, modification, maintenance and removal of a SWF. The city shall track its time spent reviewing the applicant’s application submittals and conducting inspections. The hourly rate for one-time fees shall be assessed and administered consistent with standard city practice and fee schedule(s) as currently adopted and subsequently amended or replaced. (Ord. 6755 §§ 20, 21, 2023; Ord. 6454 § 5, 2019.)