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Charter reviewers seek stronger, clearer role for planning department in rezoning decisions
Summary
The commission discussed proposals to require the city’s planning department to provide written technical reports on rezoning or land-use items and considered mechanisms to give those reports more weight, to discourage ad-hoc consultant work by applicants or council-retained consultants that bypass in-house planning analysis.
Members of the Charter Review Commission reviewed recommendations that would clarify and strengthen the planning department’s advisory role on rezoning and other land-use decisions.
Commissioners said the planning department should provide written technical reports to the city council, the planning board, the IDA and any other agency that votes on land-use matters, so there is a formal record of technical advice. One member who said they had served on the planning commission described…
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