2019-08-01 Hearing Transcript - Admin Matters #2

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what we think. We look at this project, and we say, this looks like it's going to take eight years to build, and we give `em eight years. Or, this looks like it's going to take ten years, we give `em ten years. If it looks like it's going to be longer and larger, then we do what we were talking abouta phased approach where we deal with the first phase. And, we have the applicant submit that phasing plan, what they realistically think they can do within a time period. REPLOGLE: How does the annual progress reports fit into all of this? You mentioned it a little while ago when they didn't DARROW: So, they're, they're placed as a condition to ordinances in permits on what we consider larger projects, because we need to know where they are at in a given time period. On the smaller projects, we're not, we don't want to bog ourselves down doing, you know, a ton of that, right, but on larger ones, we do make that. And, so that helps us to understand every year what sort of progress they've made with that project. So, when someone calls us and says hey what's going on with this project, we can look back and say well it looks like they've got Plan Approval and they are submitting for Building Permits or something. Now, granted there are times that the applicant doesn't comply with that, right? And, we have to kind of say, hey, you know, you haven't done your annual progress report for four years. And, they'll come in, oh, here's our annual progress report for the last four years. It's unfortunate. We don't have any type of consequence, but it makes us understand that that kind of situation in these new changes will again show that these guys really aren't ready to go forward with their project. REPLOGLE: If they're not coming in with their annual progress— DARROW: Right, because the progress report is probably going to say they didn't do anything. You know what I mean? Because they're not really focused on their conditions and doing what they should. Now, I think that's the key that we're trying to get here is that if an applicant really isn't ready to go forward with the project, why should the Planning Commissions be granting them approval to go forward? And, that's where there's, the Land Use Commission. In sitting in with some of their hearings, they require some sort of financial proof that they are able to proceed with the project. Now, I don't know if we can go to that sort of extent, but it is something that we're thinking of adding in the application that please provide information regarding your financial ability to proceed with a project. CLARKSON: Well, that's there's a Catch 22 there, because anything that requires financing, you can't go to a lender and say please finance my project without having the permit to do it if they say, and then if you say, well we're not going to give you the permit until you have a letter from your lender DARROW: Yeah CLARKSON: then anything that needs financing is dead in the water. EXHIBIT D 5