Columbia Transition to this UDC ordinance (§ 29-1.9)

(a) Any application for approval of a building permit or subdivision of land governed by this chapter that was filed and determined by city staff to be a complete application before the effective date of this chapter shall be governed by the zoning and subdivision regulations in effect at the time the complete application was filed.

(b) Any approval of a structure or land use under the zoning regulations in force prior to the effective date of this chapter, shall be governed by the regulations in effect at the time of the preliminary approval, provided that any additional or final approvals of that structure or land are completed within any time required by those regulations, or within any extension of that time approved by the city.

(c) Preliminary subdivision plats approved under subdivision regulations in force prior to the effective date of this chapter, shall expire seven (7) years from the date of approval or five (5) years after the effective date, whichever occurs first.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) through (c) above, an applicant whose application would otherwise be governed by regulations in effect prior to this chapter may notify the city in writing that the applicant chooses to have the application governed by the provisions of this chapter. The city shall approve the request provided that (i) the application shall be subject to all applicable provisions of this chapter—not just selected provisions, and (ii) if the application has received preliminary approvals, those approvals shall be reviewed and the application shall be required to comply with the standards and provisions for preliminary approval under this chapter.

(e) Nothing in this chapter shall require any change in the plans, construction or designated use of a building for which a building permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this chapter. (f)

All PUD, O-P, C-P, and M-P zone districts approved prior to the effective date of this chapter will be shown on the zoning map as PD zone districts, but shall continue to be governed by the approved development plans for those properties and by those portions of the prior zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations necessary to interpret and carry out the intent of the approved development plans for those properties. All construction and land uses that comply with approved development plans for those properties are legal conforming uses. Modifications to PUD, O-P, C-P, and M-P zone districts approved prior to the effective date of this chapter must comply with the provisions of this chapter.

(g) Any use of land that was listed as a permitted use of land in the zone district where it is located at the time the use was established, but that is listed as a conditional use in that location in this chapter, shall be deemed to have obtained a conditional use permit; and the city shall provide written confirmation of that status upon request of the owner of the property on which the use is located.

(h) Any violations of zoning and subdivision regulations in effect prior to the effective date of this chapter shall continue to be violations of city regulations, and the city may enforce and apply penalties to those violations, unless the structure, land use, or action that gave rise to the violation would no longer be a violation under this chapter.