TO: Chair and Planning Commission
FROM: Jeremy Knapp, Community Development Director
Paul Michaud, Planning Manager
George Burton, Senior Planner
DATE: February 18, 2020
DEPARTMENT: Community Development
Staff Contact Paul Michaud, Planning Manager, 480-348-3574
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Discussion of Noticing for Application Requests
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Background
BACKGROUND
The Planning Commission identified several policy and/or code change items for the Town Council Retreat held on January 30, 2020. One of the items Town Council asked staff to bring forward to them in March 2020 are suggestions to improve the planning process applicant interaction and public outreach. As such, Town Council directed staff to have the Planning Commission discuss and provide feedback on the Town's noticing policies and requirements. The Town's noticing policies are set for Planning Commission discussion at the work sessions of February 18, 2020; March 2, 2020; and tentatively March 17, 2020.
Noticing of the Town's planning applications come from the Arizona Revised Statutes, Town Code/Zoning Ordinance, and policy direction from the Town Council, Town Manager, and/or Community Development Director. Historically, the Town has and still exceeds the minimum noticing requirements in the Arizona Revised Statutes. Most of the Town's planning application types have no noticing requirements by Arizona Revised Statutes. Attachment A includes relevant statutes on noticing for planning applications. Due to time constraints, staff provided the exact statute excerpt language instead of summarizing this information. The Town Code/Zoning Ordinance provides a few specific noticing provisions, some of which are the same requirements as in the Arizona Revised Statutes. Attachment B includes a summary of the noticing requirements in the Town Code/Zoning Ordinance.
To aid in this discussion attached are the current and past Town staff documents on noticing used by the Town's Planning Divi...
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