Staff walks commissioners through planning application process, timelines and review paths

City planning staff gave a procedural training to the Planning Commission explaining how discretionary and ministerial applications move through completeness review, interagency referral, design review and public hearings. Jesse Davis, the city's chief planning manager, told commissioners their "role is to help us as staff balance and regulate the environment around us by identifying the community values, the compromise and the negotiation that goes around land use development." He emphasized the quasi-judicial nature of the commission's review. Why it matters:…