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CLEAR & OBJECTIVE HOUSING: APPROVAL C RITERIA UPDATE <br />November 13, 2018 DRAFT Preferred Concepts Report: Significant Issues Page 45 of 59 <br />city finance officer in an amount sufficient to assure the completion of all required public <br />improvements; or <br /> (b) A petition for public improvements and for the assessment of the real property for the <br />improvements has been signed by the property owner seeking the subdivision, and the <br />petition has been accepted by the city engineer. <br />Recommendation : Retain existing process and add new compatibility criterion from COS-01. (Option C) <br />Comments from stakeholders supported the removal of the site review process for housing (option B), and also <br />expressed an interest in adding criteria that addressed compatibility of developments (option C). Without a <br />compatibility criterion, elimination of the site review requirement would streamline the process for housing <br />development by allowing proposal to go directly to a building permit application. As the existing clear and <br />objective track applies the same development standards as those applicable at time of the building permit, the <br />existing review is largely redundant. There are no housing types that require a site review. Site review is only <br />required where a site review overlay zone exists; however, that still affects many properties. Removing the site <br />review requirement from these properties might be technically feasible, and would promote efficiency, but it <br />would take extensive research and evaluation on a site-by-site basis and likely require amendments to <br />refinement plans that placed site review overlays on specific sites. The amount of time to identify all sites that <br />have site review overlays, or are designated by refinement plans to have site review overlays, and to determine <br />whether existing code sections sufficiently address the initial concerns that lead to the overlays, render this <br />option practically infeasible at this time. <br />In addition, if the new compatibility criterion from COS-01 is implemented, then it will provide added benefit to <br />the existing clear and objective site review process. The new compatibility criterion will be more effective at <br />addressing impacts from higher-intensity developments when located near lower-intensity developments than <br />existing multifamily standards . <br />A. No Change o o + o o o– <br />B. Eliminate site review requirement for housing +o––o o+ <br />C. Add criteria to address compatibility (Related issue <br /># COS-01 Clear & Objective Compatibility)o+++o o+ <br />+ promotes o neutral –inhibits <br />Possible Concepts <br />November 26, 2018, Work Session – Item 2