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3. Any condition imposed on an application shall be designed to mitigate a specific, adverse impact upon health and safety at the lowest possible cost. 4. A feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid a specific, adverse impact includes, but is not limited to, any cost-effective method, condition, or mitigation imposed by the Town on another similarly situated application in a prior successful application for a permit. The Town shall use its best efforts to ensure that the selected method, condition, or mitigation meets the conditions of subparagraphs (A) and(B) of paragraph(1) of subdivision(d) of Section 714 of the Civil Code defining restrictions that do not significantly increase the cost of the system or decrease its efficiency or specified performance. 5. If an application is deemed incomplete, a written correction notice detailing all deficiencies in the application and any additional information or documentation required to be eligible for expedited permit issuance shall be sent to the applicant for resubmission. 6. Only one inspection shall be required and performed by the Building Division for small residential rooftop solar energy systems unless additional inspections are deemed necessary by the Building Official. 7. The inspection shall be done in a timely manner and should include consolidated inspections. An inspection will generally be scheduled within one business day of a request and within a four (4)hour or less inspection window. 8. If a small residential rooftop solar energy system fails the one required inspection, a subsequent inspection is authorized but need not conform to the requirements of this Ordinance. 8-9.06 Conditional Use Permit Required. The Building Official or Planning Director may require an applicant to apply for a Conditional Use Permit if they find, based on substantial evidence,that the solar energy system could have a specific, adverse impact upon public health and safety. Denial of the Conditional Use Permit application must include written findings based upon substantive evidence in the record that the proposed installation would have a specific, adverse impact(as defined in Section 8-9.02)upon public health or safety and there is no feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid, as defined, the adverse impact. Such findings shall include the basis for the rejection of the potential feasible alternative for preventing the adverse impact. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills does hereby further ORDAIN as follows: 1. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of this ordinance, including the application of such part or provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby and shall continue in full force and effect. To this end, provisions of this ordinance are severable. The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase hereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, Ordinance 559 Page 4