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REPLOGLE: I think that would go back to the annual progress reports again. Everybody, them
<br />included, would know—
<br />DARROW: When
<br />REPLOGLE: —it's happening.
<br />DARROW: Right, yeah.
<br />CLARKSON: Well, I will say that if you do put an expiration date now I'm talking about
<br />permits, now, not rezones—if you put an expiration date on it, it has to be crystal clear what has
<br />to happen before that date so that the expiration does not apply. Either you have to get your
<br />certificate of occupancy or some other critical, easily defined document, because what if, you
<br />know, it's not crystal clear. They get the thing half built. The expiration date happens. Now
<br />what? Oh, I'm sorry, your permit is expired. Stop work now. So, I mean, you know, what—
<br />DARROW: —You raise a very good point, okay? And, we've run into this nightmare before,
<br />and what it is, is that we don't have a very good definition. We don't have a definition of what
<br />complete construction means. Okay, so people think, oh, I've completed my construction.
<br />We've had—well I won't go into the past, but anyway, what it should be is exactly what you're
<br />saying. You identify specifically in a definition what complete construction means, which
<br />means if it's a commercial project, they have to receive [a] certificate of occupancy, which
<br />means they got their final Building Permit, and it was all signed off by all the agencies. If it's
<br />another project, the residential, it would just be a final on the Building Permit. So, those kind of
<br />things. But, right now, we've had, because there is a lack of definition for complete
<br />construction, somebody built something, got a Building Permit, never finalled it, and never
<br />CO'ed it, but was able to build it, and so apparently, that meant the definition of complete
<br />construction.
<br />So, again, and, then it's held in limbo for however long, because they met that condition
<br />apparently. But, so, that is a good suggestion that I need to definitely put in this amendment is to
<br />define that.
<br />AU: How about the request for extension? Would that be Planning Commission decision or just
<br />a Planning Department decision?
<br />DARROW: That's, the discussion now is whether or not we want to continue allowing an
<br />administrative time extension granted by the Director for certain circumstances. And, again, I
<br />think we're suggesting that just beyond the conditions we have now to also place in a condition
<br />as part of the usually, it's the last condition in a permit, right? The administrative time
<br />extension. There's three criteria. We'd like to add a fourth one that says that the applicant
<br />should have done substantial commencement, and then we define that. So, it's something where
<br />we say they put in the infrastructure and maybe 10 percent of the building. Or something. Just
<br />so that it's clear they're not just, you know, buying time, right? If they come in and they haven't
<br />done anything, and they want a time extension, an administrative, and they haven't done
<br />anything on the project, I think we would all agree that at that point, it might be better to have the
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