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Passed “ag tourism” bill to allow small-scale visitor operations on farms without needing <br />special permits, streamlining the process. (Ord. 08-155). <br />Passed law saying that the county could require that noise impacts be reduced in the <br />“plan approval” process. (Ord. 07-28). <br />Assisted Council in drafting new law permitting the geothermal fund to be used for <br />community benefit projects. (Ord. 08-37). <br />Reformed practices for subdivisions using water catchment variances, so that these can <br />only be on a small scale, and not in very dry areas. Planning Department Rule 22. <br />Drafted new state law strengthening the enforcement of the historic sites protection law. <br />Act 104, SLH 2003. <br />Customer Service. <br />We kept up with basic permit processing during a huge development boom that reached a <br />peak of 3500 building permits for new homes in 2005, four times the level of 1998. <br />Implemented street numbering system, and started project to name unnamed streets. <br />Made basic land use information, like zoning, readily available to the public via CD and <br />for some items, by Internet website. <br />Made Planning Commission minutes, agendas, application forms, the Subdivision and <br />Zoning Codes, General Plan updates, and CDP information, available by Internet <br />website. <br />We greatly increased enforcement activity, dealing with public complaints. <br />Internal Planning Department Improvements. <br />Implemented GIS system—went from using paper maps to having almost all information <br />available to staff at computer terminals. <br />Changed permit-tracking and record-keeping from outdated WANG system to EDEN and <br />LaserFiche. <br />Took over tax mapping from an outside contract to in-house, improved timeliness of <br />updating. <br />Scanned thousands of tax and subdivision maps to make available in GIS. <br />5 <br /> <br />