In my opinion locking hard review deadline time frames into the Ordinance is problematic. The review time frame issue is a decision that each political body needs to ponder while striking a balance between the turn around times and the cost. Each public body should be free to set their own review deadlines as a matter of public policy. Recently, several communities have become complete waiver communities in part so they could control their own review process. They made the conscious decision to take on the cost of the complete review process in order to balance the desires of their community.

Reorganizing will be a challenge, though. Many requirements apply to more than one type of project, so if you organize by project type, then you end up repeating a lot. Suggestion: Organize by project, but for the sections that apply to more than one type of project, put that information in a later section and include it by reference in the “project type” section.

The issue is is the ordianance user friendly? Is it easy to find things? It may be easy for the county staff to use but hard for customers seeking guidance that are not familiar with the ordinance. This issue brings up a larger question that is are we just tweaking things or are we going to reinvent things or something in between. I think we need to reorder things to the extent necessary to make the ordinance user friendly. I am not sure that it is user friendly now. The administrative process needs to be folded into the ordinanance or added as an appendix. Review deaadlines need to be locked into hard dates that must be met. The time element is critical to any public or private project. We are adding a new redevelopment section. THis will be difficult. Many of the future submittals are likely to be in that category. So reordering seems to be useful but difficult.