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25 <br />applicant be required to submit a new application for a minor subdivision when the applicant <br />fails to submit a final plat that complies with all conditions of approval within one year of <br />receiving the staff letter of conditional approval. <br />There are 60 in-process minor subdivision applications. Thirty-three (33) of those applications <br />would not be affected by the proposed amendments since the required type of road would <br />remain the same. Out of the 27 applications that would be affected by the proposed <br />amendments, the above recommended policy would allow seven (7) of those in-process <br />minor subdivisions to be completed using the current subdivision provisions and <br />standards for private roads. (All of those subdivisions were approved with conditions by staff <br />..prior to June 6, 2000, the 1•irst date the amendments could have been adopted by the BOCC.) <br />The seven minor subdivision applications allowed to proceed as conditionally approved under <br />the proposed policy are noted in the tables on pp 28 - 30 with a "/" beside the staff approval <br />date. Four (4) of those applications propose one or two new lots on an existing class B private <br />road. The resulting total number of lots accessing those class B roads varies from 6 to 7. If <br />required to comply with the new amendments, applicants must upgrade the roads to class A <br />private road standards. The other three (3) subdivision applications each propose to create a <br />total of three lots using a class C private road (two subdivisions propose new class C private <br />roads, one proposes to add one lot to an existing class C private road). If required to comply <br />with the new amendments, applicants must upgrade the roads to class B private road <br />standards. <br />Policy for Application Approval in Future Cases <br />In future situations where amendments are proposed that affect in-process minor subdivision <br />applications, staff recommends that <br />in-process applications not be required to comply with the proposed amendments if the <br />application received approval, or conditional approval, prior to the public hearing at <br />which proposed amendments are presented. <br />Applicants who submit proposals after the public hearing will be advised that staff will consider <br />the proposed amendments during review of those applications. <br />Staff recommends the above outlined policy for dealing with major subdivision applications. <br />Applicants have much pre-application interaction with planning staff, and staff apprises such <br />applicants of any known proposed amendments being developed as well as any <br />consequences of not incorporating proposed amendments into plans that may not receive <br />"vested" preliminary plat approval prior to adoption of any such amendments. <br />1 Staff also recommends that the Oran a Coun Subdivision Re ulations, Section III-3, <br />Approval Procedures for Minor Subdivision, be amended. to limit to one year the time allowed <br />from the conditional approval of a final plat application to the endorsement of the final plat <br />approval by the Planning Director. The amendment should also include an exception in cases <br />where the applicant can demonstrate a good faith effort to comply with the deadline, but for <br />reasons beyond his/her control, fails to meet the requirements within that period. <br />