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late. So I think it would be hard to mandate that. But I just question why something wasn't <br />inserted for the Planning Commission, but that's a whole different matter. <br />GOLDSTEIN: Okay. <br />BALOG: Commissioner Souza. <br />SOUZA: Getting away from the discussion, I'd like to have a better explanation <br />under Section 2, subsection (h). It says, "Be charged with the approval of variances as provided <br />by law [, but if any objections are made in writing to the director, the director's actions shall be <br />subject to review by the planning commission according to law. If the said request is denied by <br />the director, the applicant may appeal such denial to the planning commission]." And the <br />proposal as I understand it is to eliminate that. Why is that? <br />GOLDSTEIN: Because then the appeal of the Director would go, on variances, would go <br />directly to the Board of Appeals. See, right now any appeal first goes to the Commission but, and <br />then it can also, the Commission's action is appealable to the Board of Appeals. So if we just <br />eliminate the Commission's role in this it goes directly to the Board. <br />GIANNINI: I think that the purpose behind it is just streamlining to make things more <br />reasonable. Like I think it was assumed that it doesn't really make a lot of sense to have some, <br />some places, to have some decisions have an appeal process that goes from the Director to the <br />Planning Commission to the Board of Appeals up to Court and some go like say Planning <br />Commission, then some go maybe just directly to Board of Appeals and then to Court or <br />something; and so they wanted to have it a more streamlined and consistent structure. <br />SOUZA: Thank you. And I, now with that explanation I agree with that. One other <br />question while I have the microphone, it says here that the recommendation is that the <br />administrative, the Board shall be part of the Office of Corporation Counsel for administrative <br />purposes. Is this agreed on? I mean have we got, are we in agreement between the Planning <br />Commission and the Corporation Counsel's office that this is the right track to do? <br />GOLDSTEN: We had discussions both with the Department of Public Works as well as <br />Corporation Counsel because the Board, you know, is involved not only with planning matters <br />but public works' matters right now and they are in agreement. <br />SOUZA: Thank you. <br />BALOG: Commissioner McIntosh. <br />MCINTOSH: Alice isn't finished yet. <br />BALOG: Alice. <br />-5- <br />