Cda Alters Developer Deadlines Rules Changed To Give Staff More Time To Review Applications

Thu., Aug. 20, 1998

By Ken Olsen keno@spokesman.com

Developers will have to get subdivision proposals to City Hall about 10 days sooner, the City Council decided Tuesday evening.

Instead of filing applications one month before a public hearing on a project, developers will have to have their application filed by the first day of the month preceding the hearing.

That means a developer will have to apply by Sept. 1 for a development the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on in mid-October. The temporary rule change also moves the deadline for anyone wanting a zone change, to annex their property into the city, and many other proposals that require a public hearing.

The change eases a time jam that has meant city planning staff only have five working days to review a developer’s application, get any deficiencies corrected and meet deadlines for publishing the appropriate legal notices, said Jean DeBarbieris, associate city planner.

In the past, the planning staff has put the annexation, development or zone change on the Planning Commission’s agenda and then scrambled to fix any deficiencies, DeBarbieris said.

“We now have an average of 10 more days to ask questions, answer questions and work with the developer,” she said. “It’s a negligible amount of time when you are talking about annexations and subdivisions.

“It will save at least 10 days on the other end of the process.”

In other business the council:

Changed the parking rules along the west side of First Street between Sherman Avenue and Coeur d’Alene Avenue. People now will be restricted to two-hour parking instead of unlimited parking. Some motorists were taking unfair advantage of the unlimited parking, city officials said.

Removed requirements for grassy swales that dictated the swales remove contaminants at specific rates. Instead the swales should remove contaminants according to “best management practices,” the council decided.

Approved preliminary work on a new $700,000 water well for the northern portion of Coeur d’Alene.

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