2006-02-24 TInitiator_Planning_Director

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like happened in the actual we were talking about, after when the subdivision is well in process and say it needs to thrown out because the preliminary plat didnt have all the information on it. Thats what, thats what the sentence at the top of page 6 is. The change on page 7 just changes some of the, the requirements. We, the proposed names are out because we typically dont have the street names at the beginning those are added later. On page 8 the gist of this is to not require details of adjoining property that, that are currently called for. And to not require detailed descriptions of improvements that will be made by the subdivider. Now I need toexplain that all of this does come in later. There are two main stages in a subdivision. Theres a preliminary plat which has the basic layout and that getstentative approval. And then tentative approval comes with the conditions of how, how much of the basic standard that you have to improve your street to. And then after that theres final approval which comes after your construction, your actual construction plans have been approved by the Department of Public Works and you have either built them or, to the specifications have bonded them so that they build the construction as guaranteed. So this doesnt take away the actual requirement to make the improvements.Itjustsaysthatyoudonthavetoshowwhattheyarewhenyoufirstapplyfor the subdivision in your preliminary. The next, on page 9 it has some details on the final plat that have, theyre not going to be required including approved street names. Again the street names are sometimes added later. Theres a separate street naming process now. And some other and on pages 9 and 10 some other details on the final plat that are not, that are not really necessary and not typically done, have not been typically done over the years. So thats the gist of these changes. The, page 12 is another important clause for us and that it says that the Directors acceptance-. When we look at the final plat and start to circulate it we waive technical errors. Again somebody can come back and validate it later because there were things missing on it. We can make the, we can require that those, the County can require that those things can be fixed but they dont make the plat, the subdivision plat invalid. And those are the major changes and Id be happy to answer any questions. GRAHAM:If I might, the final thing that you were speaking to there and I was looking at the end of the, the part thats underlined here. And the Directors issuance of final subdivision approval shall be valid despite the absence of information required in sections 23-69 and 70. And I think you just interpreted your words as being some technicalities that were missing but it seems that the language could also apply to some very substantive things that perhaps could occur through whatever kind of collusion between some public official and the developer and it seems like if it were substantive issues then they probably should be subject to (inaudible) scrutiny. YUEN:Even with a clause like this if there was something like a bribe given to somebody to accept something that shouldnt have been. That, that subdivision could still be set aside on those kinds of grounds. What, what if you look at whats required on 23-69, maybe we could go through them one by one but there are things that say date north point and scale of the drawing. And so what happened is; whats the potential as a result of the Supreme Court case is that if they left the scale off the drawing the subdivision plat could be invalidated. So we just want to make sure things like that are not going to be a problem. And if you look at them the information required in 23-69 and 23-70 are things that are map issues. Theyre not things that are construction issues. In other words were not doing anything that waives the requirements that the streets actually be constructed to the standards, they be inspected by the Department of EXHIBIT 3