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City staff preview single-family permit streamlining, propose more administrative approvals and code updates
Summary
City planning staff proposed targeted reforms to the single-family design-review process on June 17: more administrative approvals for small projects, conversion of selected design guidelines into code standards, and consolidation of SFDB hearings to reduce repetitive public hearing steps.
City planning staff on June 17 presented a draft plan to streamline the review of single-family residential projects, proposing a series of administrative and zoning changes intended to reduce hearings, clarify expectations, and make modest home improvements easier to permit.
Acting design review supervisor Ted Hamilton-Rolle and acting city planner Ellen Coquinda said the single-family design board (SFDB) is overburdened with applications — many triggered by location in the Hillside Design District or by minor alterations — and recommended exempting "alterations-only" projects that add no new square footage from public hearings, expanding staff-level administrative approvals for limited additions, and consolidating SFDB—s project-design approval and final-approval steps into a single, appealable decision. "We are proposing to make streamlining improvements instead,"…
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