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The City Council has made recent efforts to consolidate advisory boards including its land use boards combining both the City’s Local Planning Agency and Zoning Board into a single Planning and Zoning Board. Following recent issues relating to the processing of various land use petitions due to scheduling and conflict as well as lack of quorums, the City Council has requested that additional land use authorizations be transferred from both the Historic Preservation Board and Tree Advisory Board to the newly formed Planning and Zoning Board.
The proposed ordinance amends applicable provisions of the City’s Land Development Code to allow the Planning and Zoning Board to serve as the Historic Preservation Board as well as for the heritage tree preservation review of the Tree Advisory Board to be considered by the Planning and Zoning Board during the regular land use and zoning process.
In addition, at direction of Council the mandatory demolition delay period has been extended beyond the 50-year timeline to a proposed 80-year review criteria.