County planner outlines state-driven changes to development-review timelines
Planning staff told the commission that recent state legislative changes shorten sufficiency review windows (five days) and impose limits on information requests; the county's draft land development code was updated and will return to the commission for recommendation at the December meeting.
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Planning staff informed the Washington County Planning & Zoning Commission on Nov. 3 that recent legislative changes require local governments to respond more quickly to development and subdivision review submissions. Staff said the draft land development code has been updated to reflect new statutory timelines, including a five-day sufficiency review to determine if an application is complete and additional 30- and 60-day processing periods when applications are sufficient.
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