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Commissioners back ending automatic postponements for zoning hearings to make delays discretionary
Summary
The Planning Department proposed eliminating automatic administrative postponements for zoning hearings. The commission approved the code amendment after debate about equity, costs to re-notice large area cases, and whether authorized hearings and ordinary zoning cases should be treated differently.
City planning staff asked the commission to amend the zoning rules to remove an administrative, non‑discretionary postponement process that allowed an applicant or notified property owner to pay a small fee (currently $150) and force a postponed public hearing. Staff said the re-notification costs for large authorized hearings—sometimes thousands or tens of thousands of dollars—exceed the postponement fee and that discretionary postponements at the hearing would improve transparency and reduce repeated re-noticing costs.
Staff noted that, from 2021–2025, roughly 25…
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