2019-04-04 Hearing Transcript - Admin Matters Item 1

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RAFFIPIY: Second. CLARKSON: All those in favor? COMMISSIONERS: Aye. CLARKSON: Opposed? Motion carried. There is nothing for action today as far as I can see, so there's no motion for action. I would just like to say that I see a major distinction between a rezone ordinance and a project specific permit application, and I would like to think that rezoning would be treated as a—very differently than a project specific application and that a rezone would be considered to be permanent and with basically no time conditions whatsoever since the vast majority of the properties that are zoned have no time limit on their zoning status. And, you know, then years could go by or decades, nobody does anything, but when they do something, they're going to have to follow the same rules that everybody else does. I also think that most people don't just, you know, gratuitously come in and apply for a zoning change without having some project in mind, and if it doesn't happen, you know, there are probably unforeseen reasons and maybe they sell the property, they can't finance it or whatever, and somebody else will do something different, appropriate for that zoning. Anyway, that's my two cents. RAFFIPIY: Can I ask a question? What is our mechanism that is on permit extension? What's the mechanism in place for us to if somebody come in and request for an extension for, you know, the permit, for instance, for us to know that they met all the conditions prior to us granting another, or granting an extension? What kind of mechanism do we have to verify to confirm that they have met all the conditions? Because I believe they should at least meet all the conditions before we extend another, grant another extension. DARROW: Thank you, Commissioner Raffipiy. What—this is another area that we as staff realize that is lacking in the rules. It just says that the applicant shall submit their request and reasons along with the original and 20 copies and all the time, they ask do you have an application, what do I have to submit? So, staff basically kind of guides them as to what they need to submit, and basically, we ask them to give us a history of the project, because there's been history. So, we ask them, you know, original—what you ask for. We ask them to submit the permit as an exhibit. We ask them for a chronology of everything they've done, but more importantly, we ask them for an updated status report on conditions. And, so that way we know if they've complied with it or not complied with it. And, if they've complied with it, we ask that they submit something showing the compliance. Like if they got Plan Approval that they submit their Plan Approval approval to us. So, that's something that we need to update our rules, and we may actually create a form so that it's very clear that they request, that they submit information that's relevant to the request. They—staff all the time say this one comment, and it's sometimes we find that extensions and amendments are a lot more difficult than a new permit because you're dealing with a lot of history and issues and all these things come up, and it's sometimes, it's just easier to deal with a EXHIBIT E 12