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Planning Department, as well as the Building Department. So, building permits are being very
<br /> much delayed as a result of that.
<br /> And, at any given time, you never know what's going on with the economy. Sometimes it could
<br /> be in recession and the permits slow down, so it's not that hard. But, other times, you go in and
<br /> you're told the permit is going to take five months or six months, and that's sometimes, it's kind
<br /> of standard nowadays; you hear that on a regular basis. So,the idea here is to again start the
<br /> deadline, I mean start the construction timeline on a particular action that occurs. But, you put a
<br /> time on that action, too,just so that, you know, they've got to get this done. But, let's say, you
<br /> give them three years to come in for Plan Approval, but they come in in one year. Well, from
<br /> there, they have five years to complete construction. So, it's not going to be eight years like they
<br /> wait till the last minute and then they do it; they come in, they're ready to go,then they have five
<br /> years to build. And, again, you could have your condition, your deadline at that point. And, then
<br /> if they don't complete, they come back in.
<br /> Now,this was the other issue that came up in discussion was that, let's say an applicant has this
<br /> deadline—and this is where the problem arises with the, with voiding the permit after a deadline
<br /> —let's say the applicant is 90 percent done, yet, we're telling him now come in with a brand new
<br /> application when in reality all he really needs is maybe another six months to finish; he just
<br /> needs a simple time extension.
<br /> So, that's kind of where we're, what we were talking about. It's hard to put everything in one,
<br /> you know, shoe, right? It's, everything comes up and we're faced with these decisions we have
<br /> to make. So, we're going to continue trying to look at everything.
<br /> Okay, let's see, the last one: "Possibly create a process to have the applicant appear before the
<br /> Commission when no activity has been done on the property after the deadline [has passed],
<br /> similar to an Order to Show Cause." But if we put the deadline on it and nothing has happened,
<br /> we would just have them come back at that point. That would be where the deadline does
<br /> happen.
<br /> This is some other stuff that we came across and we're almost done here: "To curb speculation
<br /> and resale of undeveloped lots,"because this came up based on one particular project that's
<br /> happening. People think that, again, the delays is causing this huge speculation, but a lot of
<br /> times, a delay is caused because the developer can't afford to do the project. That's just plain
<br /> and simple. If they could, the project would go forward. They're not, it doesn't appear that they
<br /> are holding onto it. Again, that's a true developer, right? There are, the speculation happens
<br /> where someone buys a property, and they're saying okay, right now it's Residential, I'm going to
<br /> rezone it to Commercial, and then I'm going to sell it so I can make money because it's going to
<br /> be worth far more being Commercial than Residential. That's where we've got to try to watch
<br /> out for. I mean, the reality is we want to see people that are coming in that haven't, you know,
<br /> some sort of goal in mind to do a project. But again, with zoning, it can be hard, but we want to
<br /> also curtail speculation. And, this is right out of the General Plan. They are thinking that by
<br /> doing these phasing, phases in the project they can, they can help curb speculation.
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