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Rockville staff seeks Planning Commission feedback on FAST 2 zoning-review streamlining; commissioners ask for benchmarks and safeguards
Summary
Rockville staff presented FAST 2 process improvements on April 23 proposing combined area meetings, reduced briefings and expanded administrative approvals to speed development review; commissioners backed streamlining but asked for benchmarks and clearer criteria for administrative approval of site plans.
City staff presented a multi-part work session to the Rockville Planning Commission on April 23 explaining the FAST 2 recommendations to the Zoning Ordinance Rewrite (ZOIR), seeking feedback on streamlining the project-plan and planned-development amendment processes and on expanding administrative approvals for certain site plans.
John Foreman, the City’s Development Services Manager, led staff’s presentation and said Rockville’s average project-plan review from pre-application to approval is “18” months and that site-plan reviews average roughly seven months. Foreman and other staff framed the FAST 2 work as a follow-up to earlier process improvements (FAST 1) and as part of the broader ZOIR intended to implement the Comprehensive Plan’s land-use goals and to increase housing supply by providing predictability and administrative options for low-impact projects.
Staff proposed four primary changes: (1) streamline the project-plan process by combining two area meetings into one and eliminating briefings while keeping Mayor and Council as the deciding body; (2) shorten plan-development amendment timelines with a similar approach; (3) allow administrative…
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