A special administrative permit (SAP) application and seven copies each of a site
plan, landscape plan and elevation drawings of each exterior façade shall be submitted,
as applicable, and approved by the director of the bureau of planning prior to an
applicant filing for a building permit. All exterior demolition, new construction
(including additions to existing buildings), expansions of existing outdoor dining,
outdoor dining within required sidewalk areas, or any construction which results in
increased lot coverage, modification of the building footprint, or modification of
building façades that alters the configuration of openings, shall be subject to said
site plan and building elevation approval. Before making an application for a special
administrative permit, a pre-application conference between the applicant and the
director of the bureau of planning or the director's designee is required to discuss
the application and relevant requirements of these regulations. Said pre-application
conference shall be held within 14 days of the date of the request by the applicant,
unless a longer period is mutually agreed upon. All applications for a SAP shall be
processed in accordance with the standards and procedures applicable to said SAP applications
contained in Chapter 25 of Part 16 except as otherwise modified by this Chapter 18.
Where regulations may require the approval of a SAP for other purposes so specified,
processing by the director of the bureau of planning shall, without additional application,
include consideration of other special administrative permits. Where such regulations
require special exception or special use permit action, the special administrative
permit for building permit purposes shall not be issued until the necessary approval
has been obtained for special exception or special use permit.
The director of the bureau of planning may exempt certain classes of applications
for special administrative permits from detailed review requirements as set forth
upon written findings that generally within these districts, the actions proposed
are of such a character or of such a scale as to make detailed reviews and approval
by the planning director unnecessary. Where applications for special administrative
permits are determined by reference to such findings to be thus exempted, the permit
shall be issued if otherwise lawful.
