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File #: 204522    Version: 1
Type: Officer's Communication Status: Placed on File
File created: 10/26/2017 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/26/2017 Final action: 10/26/2017
Enactment date: 10/26/2017 Enactment #: 204522
Title: Director of Planning responding to #204300 re: email communications for items before the Planning and Zoning Boards.

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Director of Planning responding to #204300 re: email communications for items before the Planning and Zoning Boards.

 

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To the Honorable Board:

 

I am writing with a response to Board Order #204300 regarding email communications for items before the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals.  Working with the OSPCD Outreach Coordinator, the plan review team in the Planning Division will be instituting a new policy to develop project-based email lists.

 

We will be testing this program, beginning with cases to be heard at the Planning and Zoning meetings in the second-half of November, with the hope that the program will be fully operational at the start of 2018.

 

Each legal notice will include a reference to a short web URL.

 

By entering this web address, an interested party will be able to add their name to an email list about the particular project.  Staff will use this email list to inform all interested parties about continuation requests from applicants, scheduled neighborhood meetings, updated plans and any other key communications about the particular project. 

 

Please contact me if I can be of further assistance.

 

George Proakis

Director of Planning