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Planning staff cuts would slow community plans and risk state penalties, department warns
Summary
The Department of City Planning told the Budget & Finance Committee that proposed budget cuts would eliminate about 35 positions and remove roughly a quarter of filled staffing, and that those reductions would slow project approvals, delay community plans (including Venice’s Local Coastal Program) and could expose the city to state deadlines and legal penalties.
The Department of City Planning told the Budget & Finance Committee the mayoral budget proposal would cut 35 positions and remove roughly 25 percent of the department’s filled positions, a reduction the department said could slow reviews of housing and development projects, pause community planning work and expose the city to state deadlines and legal penalties.
Director Vince Bertoni (name corrected from the departmental presentation transcription) told the committee that many planning functions are time‑sensitive:…
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