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30 <br />ERCD/Planning — Planner I <br />• Issue zoning permits and provide information to the public. <br />• Review applications for amendments, special use permits, home occupation permits and <br />subdivisions for completeness. <br />Reason for Request: <br />In Environment and Resource Conservation: <br />❑ The Planner I position presently is time limited through June 30, 1999 and additional <br />time (not later than December 31) will be required to complete the Shaping report. <br />In Planning: <br />❑ Currently staff does not inspect for compliance with zoning ordinance requirements. <br />Staff approves the site plan for a building permit but does not inspect the actual on the <br />ground layout for compliance with the site plan. <br />❑ Once subdivision plans are approved, there currently is no mechanism to ensure that <br />landscaped buffers and open space are maintained. Also inspections are needed for <br />development that does not require an Erosion Control Plan, particularly private roads, to <br />assure development activities do not have detrimental effects on the natural environment. <br />❑ The staff currently shares the zoning authorization function through the Planning <br />Ambassador duty. This causes the time consuming but necessary function of zoning <br />authorization for building permits to be delayed or inconsistently handled. It needs to be <br />assigned to one person. <br />Outcomes: <br />❑ Completing field inspections of compliance with development restrictions and <br />subdivision resolutions will: <br />✓ Assure the County's policies as to new development, open space and the like are in <br />fact carried out and the conditions incurred upon approval of the site or subdivision <br />plan are met. This serves the purposes for which those regulations and plans were <br />approved of maintaining the quality of our community and protecting open space. <br />✓ Identify any problems or issues of non - compliance early in the development process <br />while there is the best opportunity for correction and potentially less expense <br />compared to measures to correct the violation at a later date. <br />If the position change and reassignment are approved, the projected work in the following <br />chart will be completed: <br />