Where the commission is considering a change in zoning from an existing zoning classification to a broader classification, where it is shown to the commission at the hearing on the application for a change in zoning that the applicant has plans in sufficient detail as to show in full the proposed use of the buildings, structures, and premises and the provision for sufficient off-street parking facilities, screening walls or fences, and landscaping, together with sufficient open space as to create a proposed transition between a lesser and more restricted district and the commission, from evidence offered at such hearing and a review and study of such plans and statements made at the hearing, finds that the proposed use and the effect upon surrounding property will not adversely affect the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare, and further finds that ample off-street parking facilities and such safeguards as are required by the commission have been agreed to be provided by the applicant for the protection of surrounding property, persons and neighborhood values, may within its discretion by a majority vote of the commission, make any one of the following recommendations to the city council:
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Recommend against the change in zoning.
2.
Recommend a change in zoning.
3.
Recommend that a special permit for such area be granted; provided there be included within such recommendation a complete statement and plot plan of all the requirements determined to be necessary to be provided for the protection of surrounding property, persons, and neighborhood values together with the recommendations of the commission as to the requirements for the paving of streets, alleys, sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, means of ingress and egress to the public street, provisions for drainage, parking space and street layouts, and protective screening and open space.
