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Sec. 40-93. Standards for l, ezonin~ and map amendments. A rezoning or map amendment shall be approved only if the city council determines that it is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Portsmouth and with the purposes of this Chapter. Sec. 40-94. Conditional rezoning. A rezoning or an amendment to the zoning map may, upon the written request of the applicant, be granted subject to profferring by the applicant of re~sonable and certain conditions for the protection of the community, that are not generally applicable to land similarly zoned. The grant of a rezoning or map amendment subject to such certain conditions shall conform to the express terms and standards set forth in the Code of Virginia. Said state law shall govern the application, the granting or denial, and the administration and enforcement of all rezonings and map amendments made or to be made subject to conditions. A petitioner to rezone or amend the zomng map, in addition to the permitted uses as set forth in the regulations of the proposed amended zoning district, may voluntarily proffer in writing other reasonable conditions which will be the governing body, provided: (a) The rezoning itself must give rise to the need for the conditions. (b) Such conditions have a reasonable relation to the rezoning. (c) All such conditions are in conformity with the Comprehensive Plan as defined in the Code of Virginia. (d) Once proffered and accepted as part of an amendment to the zoning ordinance, such conditions shall continue in effect until a subsequent amendment changes the zoning on the property covered by such conditions. Moreover, such conditions shall continue if the subsequent amendment is part of a comprehensive implementation of a new substantially revised zoning ordinance. (e) In the event proffered conditions include the dedication of real property or payment of cash, such property shall not transfer and such payment of cash shall not be made until the facilities for which such property is dedicated or cash is tendered are included in the capital improvement program, provided that nothing herein shall prevent the city from accepting proffered conditions which are not normally included in such capital improvement program. (f) If proffered conditions include the dedication of real property or the payment of cash, the proffered condition shall provide for the disposition of such property or cash payment in the event the property or cash payment is not used for the purpose for which proffered. 104