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Leesburg staff warn shortened state plan-review timelines could force more hires or higher fees
Summary
Community development staff told council recently enacted state deadlines will make the town late on a majority of plan reviews unless staffing increases or process changes are adopted; staff flagged potential need to raise application fees to pay for additional reviewers.
Town community development staff told Leesburg council that recently shortened state review deadlines will make the town unable to meet statutory timelines without adding staff or changing processes.
"Under the new timelines, we would be late over 70% of the time," a community development staff member said while summarizing historical review performance after a staff vacancy and workload increase.
Why it matters: Under the state changes discussed at the meeting, the time available to review plan submissions for completeness and then to review subsequent submissions has been reduced. Staff said the town's historic performance would translate into a…
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