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Laguna Beach staff say planning backlog cut in half; council directs urgency ordinance process
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City Manager Dave Kiff said Laguna Beach has reduced a community development backlog from 72 projects to 47 and cut average internal turnaround on plan checks from about 57 days to roughly 14 days.
City Manager Dave Kiff said Laguna Beach has reduced a community development backlog from 72 projects to 47 and cut average internal turnaround on plan checks from about 57 days to roughly 14 days, crediting staff reforms and new processes.
"We started in August ... we had, 72 projects just pending, which is which is quite a few pending and and pending for review," Kiff said on the Fair Game Laguna Beach podcast. He told host Tom Johnson the city also has more active applications than it did when the effort began — up from 192 to about 276 — and said the department sped reviews even as volume rose.
Mayor Alex Wenagi said the council has asked staff for regular progress reports and on the podcast described a…
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