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cable television lines owned, permitted or both by the City or regional service authority are further conditioned that: a. To the degree possible, the location of such utilities and facilities should be outside the Resource Protection Area; b. No more land shall be disturbed than is necessary to provide the proposed utility installation; c. All such construction, installation and maintenance of such utilities and facilities shall be m compliance with all applicable state and federal permits and designed and conducted in a manner that protects water quality; and d. Any land disturbance exceeding an area of 2,500 square feet complies with Chapter 11 (Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance) of the Portsmouth City Code. (c) Exceptions. (1) An application for an exception to the requirements of Chapter 9.1- 10 shall be made in writing to the Director of Planmng on a form provided by the Director. The Director of Plarming shall accept no such application unless accompanied by a non-refundable fee in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). The application shall identify the impacts of the proposed exception on water quality and on lands within the RPA through the performance of a water quality impact assessment, which complies, with the provisions of Section 9.1-11 (F). (2) The Director shall notify the adjacent property owners of such request, shall cause a sign to be posted on the property and shall cause to be published a legal notice of a public hearing in accordance with the Zoning Ordinance. (3) The Planning Commission shall review the request for an exception and the water quality impact assessment and may grant the exception with such conditions and safeguards as deemed necessary to further the purpose and intent of this Chapter, if the Planning Commission finds that: a. Granting the exception will not confer upon the applicant any special privileges that are denied by this Chapter to other property owners in the Overly District; b. The exception request is not based upon conditions or circumstances that are self-created or self-imposed, nor does the request arise from conditions or circumstances either permitted or nonconforming that are related to the adjacent parcels;