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Commission rejects staff bid to let director initiate some zoning code amendments, approves processing changes to application timelines
Summary
The commission voted 3–1 to deny a proposed change that would let the Community Development director initiate certain general-plan and zoning-code amendments, but approved revisions to application-processing rules to allow rolling 3-month resubmittal/action windows and to clarify expiration language.
The Westminster Planning Commission on April 2 split on two related code-text amendments: commissioners voted to reject staff’s proposal to let the Community Development director initiate certain general-plan and zoning-code amendments, but approved a separate amendment to the applications-processing section to shorten and clarify expiration and resubmittal timelines.
Staff proposed two changes. Case No. 2025-0039 would have amended WMC §17.62 to authorize the Community Development director (or designee) to initiate zoning-code and general-plan amendments on the city’s behalf;…
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