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applicable design standards and guidelines, including without limitation SD-79 and Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, in effect at the time that any development approval shall be sought for the Project or any unit or structure contained within the Project. 5.4 Retention of Use of Property As Public Parking Lot. Owner agrees to retain the use of the Property as a public parking lot until it commences construction of the Project; provided, however, that Owner may close part of all of the public parking lot so long as it necessary to perform testing on the Property necessary for geotechnical or foundation purposes, or to investigate whether hazardous materials may exist on the Property. The limitation of this section 5.4 shall expire and be of no further force and effect upon Owner's commencement of construction on the Property pursuant to a City issued demolition, foundation or building permit. 5.5 Future Discretionary Approvals. This Agreement shall not prevent the City, when considering requests for discretionary approvals not covered by this Agreement subsequent to the effective date of this Agreement from applying new rules, regulations, and policies which are applicable to the Property, including but not limited to, material changes in the general plans, specific plans, zoning, subdivision or building regulations, nor shall this Agreement prevent the City from denying or conditionally approving any subsequent applications for discretionary land use entitlements based on such existing or new rules, regulations, and/or policies; provided however, that such new rules, regulations, and official policies are of general application to all development within the City and are not imposed solely with respect to the subject property. In addition, this Agreement shall not prevent the City from exercising its police power to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. This police power, exercised in accordance with Section 5.2 of this Agreement, is paramount to any rights or obligations created or existing between the parties. 5.5.1 Minor Changes. Upon application of Owner, the Executive Director may approve minor modifications to the discretionary approvals vested pursuant to this Agreement, provided that such changes are consistent in scope and intention with such approvals. The Executive Director has the sole and absolute discretion to determine what constitutes a "minor modification." 5.6 Processing Fees. All fees and charges intended to cover the City's costs associated with processing development of the Property, including but not limited to fees and charges for applications, processing, inspections, plan review, plan processing, and/or environmental review, which are existing or may be revised or adopted during the term of this Agreement, shall apply to the development of the Property. 5.7 Amendments or Additions to Citywide Fee Programs. This Agreement shall not preclude the inclusion of and changes to fee programs, taxes whether special or general, or assessments (hereafter collectively referred to as "fees") adopted by the City after the effective date of this Agreement, which shall be applicable to the Project or the Property provided that they (1) are standard fees applicable to all development in the City (although actual fee rates may vary within the City where bona fide Citywide fee zones have been established), (2) are not applicable primarily or only to this Project, or (3) are not imposed to either (a) mitigate, offset or compensate for Project impacts which were analyzed in the mitigated negative declaration prepared for the Project, or (b) duplicate any exactions, project design features, conditions of 9 75A-44