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CLEAR & OBJECTIVE HOUSING: APPROVAL C RITERIA UPDATE <br />November 13, 2018 DRAFT Preferred Concepts Report: Maintenance Issues Page 9 of 59 <br />This project provides a valuable maintenance opportunity to address small inconsistencies between the existing <br />clear and objective review tracks. Revising the criterion for conditional use and site review is recommended as <br />the existing criterion is written for application types that go through a two-step approval process (tentative <br />followed by final). Conditional use and site review both follow a one-step approval process and do not have a <br />tentative plan approval phase like subdivisions or planned unit developments. The timing of this criterion is <br />problematic as it requires that improvements be constructed or bonded at the time an application is submitted <br />for review, when those improvements are not required or specified in the conditions of approval until issuance <br />of the decision. It would be more accurate and effective to change the timing requirement to be prior to <br />issuance of a development permit. <br />For planned unit developments, adding the approval criterion will make stand-alone planned unit development <br />review consistent with subdivision review when public improvements are proposed or required. As brought up <br />in COM-17, application submittal requirements are not approval criteria. Approval of an application can only be <br />based on compliance with approval criteria. Moving this requirement from application requirements to approval <br />criteria will be more effective at ensuring required public improvements be completed or bonded. <br />COM-04 (O VERLAY ZONE S TANDARDS) <br />Description : The discretionary tracks for partitions, planned unit developments, site reviews, and subdivisions <br />include a criterion that requires compliance with lot dimensions and density requirements in the base and <br />overlay zones. However, the clear and objective tracks limit compliance with the lot dimensions and density <br />requirements to the base zones, and do not explicitly require compliance with lot dimension and density <br />requirements in overlay zones. <br />Applies To : Partition, Planned Unit Development, Site Review, Subdivision <br />Existing Code Section(s): EC 9.8220(2)(a), EC 9.8325(7)(a), EC 9.8445(4)(a), EC 9.8520(3)(a) <br />Existing Code Language : <br />(2) The proposed partition complies with all of the following: <br />(a) Lot standards of EC 9.2000 through 9.3980 regarding applicable parcel dimensions and density <br />requirements. . . <br />Recommendation : Revise the clear and objective track approval criteria for all five clear and objective <br />application types to include compliance with the lot dimensions and density requirements in overlay zones. Use <br />the same language provided for the discretionary track applications to require compliance with: “Lot standards <br />of EC 9.2000 through 9.4170 regarding applicable lot dimensions and density requirements.” <br />This project provides a valuable maintenance opportunity to address small inconsistencies between the existing <br />clear and objective track and the discretionary review track. This change will make the clear and objective <br />language match the discretionary language, which is more inclusive as it includes compliance with lot dimension <br />and density requirements in overlay zones. <br />November 26, 2018, Work Session – Item 2