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Staff proposes clarifications to variance appeals process after council rehearing raises timing and documentation questions
Summary
Planning staff brought draft amendments to the city’s variance appeals process to ensure written findings and timing align with council and board schedules; commissioners discussed whether City Council must document hardship when it overturns a P&Z decision.
City planning staff presented proposed amendments to the variance appeals process intended to clarify timing and documentation requirements and to mirror language used for conditional use permits. The commission discussed procedural issues after a recent case in which the Planning & Zoning Commission did not approve a variance but the City Council later approved the same variance.
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