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i PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS REFERENCE: SECTION III -D -1 -b PLANNING DEPARTMENT REVIEW PROCEDURES (MAJOR SUBDIVISION CONCEPT PLAN) ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: x Staff Planning Board BOCC Public Other: STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION: xTHigh Middle Low Comment: PUBLIC HEARING DATE: February 26, 1990 PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: To provide adequate time for staff review of major subdivision Concept Plans. IMPACTS /ISSUES: The Subdivision Regulations require that Concept Plans for major subdivisions be presented to the Planning Board within 45 days of acceptance of the application. In order to meet this deadline, applications accepted 17 calendar days prior to a Planning Board meeting must be presented at that meeting. The deadline date falls on the last Friday of the month. Abstracts are due within 7 days (5 working days). The remaining 10 days (7 working days) prior to the Meeting are needed to finalize, photocopy, and distribute the Planning Board agenda. In many cases, five days is not an adequate amount of time to review the request, obtain agency comments, visit the site if necessary, and prepare the abstract. Also, a special meeting of the Development Review Committee must be called so that the abstract may be prepared within the scheduled time - frame. The time available for review is particularly critical when several projects are submitted on the deadline date, and /or a concept plan for a large subdivision or one with sensitive features is submitted. In those cases, there may not be time for staff to prepare a report that provides adequate information on which an informed decision can be based. If information presented at Concept Plan stage is inadequately presented, then the applicant will not receive as much of a benefit from the Concept Plan process. The final decision is more likely to deviate from the terms of the Concept Plan approval. Other issues may be uncovered at a 3