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Council keeps Design Review Subcommittee process and asks staff to prepare targeted zoning cleanups
Summary
After extensive public comment from local design professionals and planning commissioners, the council voted unanimously to retain the existing Design Review Subcommittee process and to initiate a zoning amendment process for miscellaneous code cleanups and possible streamlining measures.
San Clemente’s City Council heard a lengthy public record on May 20 about the role of the Design Review Subcommittee (DRC) in the plan-review process. Architects, planning commissioners and longtime design-review volunteers told council the subcommittee provides in-depth, technical and peer-to-peer review that improves projects before they reach the Planning Commission and that removing or weakening the subcommittee would slow…
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