On Thursday night, the Planning and Zoning Commission passed a change to its operating procedures that establishes a standard time to table zoning requests where information is submitted late. I wrote about it at this post.
Basically, the change says that the commission will usually table a request for at least two meetings when information is submitted late by the applicant.
It’s kind of a penalty to make sure people trying to rezone stuff aren’t handing the commissioners new information the night of the hearing. But it’s also what Development Services Manager Pat Zenner said is a reasonable amount of time for applicants to get their ducks in a row. That way, they don’t keep asking the commission to table their request at subsequent meetings while they meet with property neighbors and address staff comments.
Jay Gebhardt, the principal engineer of A Civil Group, sent a letter to the commission containing some concerns about the change. According to the staff discussion of the letter, Gebhardt felt the idea to table late requests for no less than two meetings was a bit extreme, and that often information submitted late is because of a lag in city staff comments and review.
Zenner said he was “perplexed” at Gebhardt’s concern, but admitted that “We have had some projects that do take a little bit longer.”
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