A. Provide for the location of certain types of uses, services and facilities which, because of their unique characteristics, cannot (or should not) be limited to or automatically included in specific land use classification districts;

B. Permit essential services and facilities which are needed or may be needed by or in the community, but the exact nature, scale, or location of which cannot be foreseen or predicted;

C. Provide a classification system for essential public facilities as defined in RCW 36.70A.200 to determine those essential public facilities requiring regional review;

D. Provide a review opportunity to surrounding jurisdictions that may be impacted by the siting of essential public facilities as defined in RCW 36.70A.200;

E. Establish development standards for such uses and facilities in order that properties adjacent to such uses, especially properties which are of clearly different character from the use or uses identified in this chapter, are reasonably protected from adverse effects or impact of these conditional uses;

F. Authorize the city to impose reasonable conditions, restrictions and development requirements on conditional uses as may be deemed appropriate for a conditional use in any given land use district;

G. Provide for a review process which will enable city officials, the general public and proponents of conditional uses to evaluate the need, location, scale and development characteristics of said uses and their impact on adjacent properties and the community as a whole, to the end that such uses may be approved, modified, or disapproved fairly and objectively;

H. It relieves the ordinance codified in this title and its enforcement officials from the burden of trying to identify every district in which a specific and unique use should be included as a conditional use;

I. Just as other chapters of this title try to achieve flexibility by describing rather than listing permitted uses in each district, this chapter should contribute to the desired flexibility by recognizing the limits of predictability;

J. It further enhances flexibility since the development standards for a particular use may vary depending upon the specific location for which it is proposed. (Ord. 1236 §1, 2005; Ord. 1192 §169, 2002; Ord. 691 §38, 1984; Ord. 583 §2.27(A), 1980).