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Planning director and supervisors debate speeding up zoning-violation abatement; board directs process changes
Summary
Planning and Zoning Director Maggie Castro told the Board that most zoning violations are resolved within six months but that a subset of cases linger; the Board directed staff to shorten the enforcement timeline by referring unresolved cases sooner to the county attorney.
Planning and Zoning Director Maggie Castro reviewed the county’s enforcement process for zoning violations and presented statistics on case resolution times before the Board.
Castro said the department issues a courtesy notice first and gives property owners 15 days to remedy violations; if the problem is not addressed the case is referred to the hearing officer. Staff reported that about 23.5% of cases are resolved after the initial courtesy notice, roughly 52% are resolved before the first hearing, 65% by the second hearing and some 86% of cases are resolved within…
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