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ARTICLE XIV. ADMINISTRATION AND INTERPRETATION DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 40-171. Applicability. No buil {ding or land shall be used and no building or part thereof shall be erected, moved or modified unless its use, erection, or modification is in conformance with the provisions of this Cede and all approvals required herein have been granted. No building permit shall be issued for the erection of any structure or building in any subdivision in the city unless all required plats have been filed for record as provided in this Code. See. 40-171.1. Downtown D-1 and D-2 districts. Without limiting the foregoing, no building or other improvements on land in the Downtown D-] or D-2 Districts shall be erected, moved or modified, unless its use, erection, or modification is consistent with a certificate approved by the downtown design committee. Sec. 40-171.2. Historic districts. Also without limiting the foregoing, no improvement, except those not subject to public view from a public street or way, in any Historic District shall be externally repaired, maintained, painted, located, constructed, reconstructed, altered, or demolished unless a certificate of appropriateness IS issued by the commission of architectural review of applicable jurisdiction. Sec. 40-172. Site development plan review required. In addition to all of the other requirements of this Chapter, no excavation or building permit shall be issued until the director has reviewed a site development plan and certified that the site development plan conforms to applicable regulations of this Chapter, Chapter 33 (Subdivision Ordinance), Chapter 39 (Wetlands Zoning Ordinance) and Chapter 9.1 (Chesapeake Bay preservation Area Overlay District Ordinance), and Chapter 36 (Tree Replacement Ordinance), except as follows: (a) No site development plan review shall be required for agricultural uses or for one-family or two-family detached dwellings; unless such review is required by the State Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act and any regulations or ordinances adopted under authority thereof. (b) The city engineer nmy waive part or all of the site development plan requirements for additions to buildings, structures or uses if, in his opinion, such addi'~ion does not substantially deviate from the purposes and intent of this article and said addition is equivalent to 25 per cent or less of the total of the existing square footage of gross floor area and paved 123