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Board moves to amend subdivision and site-plan rules after state law shifts approvals to a ‘designated agent’
Summary
Following passage of SB 974, the Madison County board directed staff to publish a draft ordinance amendment to remove governing-body approvals for subdivisions and site plans and to advertise a joint public hearing on July 2; supervisors and the economic development committee proposed adding fiscal-impact requirements and beefing up Article 16.
Madison County supervisors directed staff to prepare and advertise an amendment to the county’s subdivision and site-plan ordinance to comply with recent changes in state law (SB 974), which replace the governing body and planning commission as approval authorities with a designated administrative agent.
The board approved moving a “band-aid” draft developed by staff to advertisement and scheduled a joint public hearing for July 2. Staff noted the draft removes board and planning-commission approval authority and replaces those references with a “designated agent,” and shortens some agency-comment timelines (for example, forwarding to other agencies from 10 days to five in some provisions).
Why it matters: supervisors and planning staff warned the change eliminates…
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