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17 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 472 Chris Johnston: I see, so it's not something that could be handled by staff, it has to come before the <br /> 473 planning board, and we have to take time to review it. <br /> 474 Patrick Mallett: Yeah, we can't administratively change the watershed boundary lines. <br /> 475 Chris Johnston Okay, thank you. <br /> 476 Marilyn Carter: Is there, given that we can anticipate some more of these to happen, is there a financial <br /> 477 impact to the county that we should be planning for in supporting these changes? <br /> 478 Patrick Mallett: I guess the financial impact would be the alternative, which is something that's not exactly <br /> 479 consistent with reality and therefore gives you a skewed image of the development <br /> 480 requirements. <br /> 481 Marilyn Carter: Got it, so the county doesn't have to expend funds to correct this line. <br /> 482 Patrick Mallett: No, this is just staff time to process them. We obviously have the time, we're busy, busy, <br /> 483 busy, but this is something that needs to be done and we're doing it. <br /> 484 Marilyn Carter: Got it. Thank you. <br /> 485 Statler Gilfillen: As I'm reading and listening to the discussion, this is a little bit of the bureaucratic issue, <br /> 486 kind of a Catch-22 where you're caught. Is there not a practical solution somehow that <br /> 487 can minimize the bureaucracy of this, since it's, what I'm hearing, this is relatively cut and <br /> 488 dry. It's going to be done, but the bureaucracy is requiring a lot of your time and then <br /> 489 coming before the boards, is there a way to simplify that process? <br /> 490 Patrick Mallett: Not without exhaustive time and expense on the county's end to essentially go out and <br /> 491 systematically review the boundaries for every critical and protected watershed, and that <br /> 492 would extremely expensive. <br /> 493 Statler Gilfillen: Would it not be possible to do something so that you can just do it internally? <br /> 494 Patrick Mallett: We don't have registered surveyors. <br /> 495 Whitney Watson: Patrick, I think part of the question is you mentioned that this is not something that can be <br /> 496 administratively corrected within the planning department? What would need to happen <br /> 497 for it to be possible for planning to make these changes administratively rather than <br /> 498 having to prepare a packet and bring it before the planning board? <br /> 499 Patrick Mallett: That too, would be a radical change, so we, the county,when we adopted our watersheds <br /> 500 and we adopted them as overlays, there would have to be some consideration to change <br /> 501 that status and make it something different. That too, could be time-consuming and <br /> 502 costly. You're talking about notifications county-wide for the most part. And in the end, <br /> 503 we'd have to derive some rationale and a firm feeling that that's the right way to do these, <br /> 504 so we know what we know at this point. <br /> 505 Perdita Holtz: I was just going to put in a couple of sentences that watershed protection overlay districts <br /> 506 would have to be removed from the zoning ordinance, the UDO, as overlay districts and <br /> 507 be a standalone ordinance that doesn't require the process of planning board review and <br /> 508 a public hearing and a BOCC decision in order to amend a boundary that has been <br /> 509 surveyed. It would a big effort to take those out of the UDO, but then it would be done <br /> 510 also. <br />